11 minutes ago - PDF Minnesota Rag | Minnesota Rag takes the reader on a tour of the underside of a dark period in Minnesota's past, one filled with crooked public officials, vengeful gangsters, and yellow journalists Featuring notorious characters such as Jay M Near, racist and antilabor publisher of Minneapolis's Saturday Press, pioneering newsman Fred W Friendly weaves the tale of a court case that molded our understanding of freedom of the press and set a precedent for the publication of the Pentagon Papers