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If Minneapolis therapist Emily Abeln could wave a magic wand, the political rhetoric flooding the airwaves this election season would likely look quite a bit different. “I might...
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The yr 2023 in state government and politics as told by the people involved.
“It’s over. We’re done.”
— DFL House Speaker Melissa Hortman, announcing the failure of bipartisan talks on a bonding bill, one week before...
U.S. Capitol Constructing
REUTERS/Josh Roberts
WASHINGTON — The 12 months 2023 was stuffed with firsts and barely seen events in Washington, D.C. To call a number of:
It’s the primary time a former president was indicted on criminal and civil charges –...
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WASHINGTON — Minnesota’s political “trifecta” gave the DFL control of the governorship, and the state House and Senate, but in terms of the federal courts within the state, it’s a special and more complicated picture.
Minnesota’s U.S. District Court judges...
Members of Mothers Demand Motion for Gun Sense in America protested within the Capitol Rotunda on the opening day of the 2023 legislative session.
MinnPost photo by Peter Callaghan
Conscious of gun regulations’ tricky politics, the DFL-controlled Legislature has advanced a...
Minnesota schools have a race problem.
They're heavily segregated and have been so for a very long time. The recent Cruz-Cuzman v. Minnesota Court of Appeals decision declaring that racial imbalances throughout the Minneapolis school district didn't violate the education...
Flowers and signatures adorn campaign signs on the partitions of the St. Paul campaign headquarters of Sen. Paul Wellstone on October 28, 2002.
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A bit greater than 20 years after his premature death in a plane crash, I reflect...
When the MPPOA endorsed Republican Scott Jensen for governor, the group held a press conference outside of the third precinct constructing. MPPOA executive director Brian Peters is shown at the rostrum.
Scott Jensen for Governor video screen shot
Just how necessary...
Running for office has never been for the faint of heart, but in recent times it has develop into so divisive that some candidates now eschew typical norms and campaign with a more brusque approach.
This election season, the Pioneer...
Longtime St. Paul Democratic U.S. Rep. Betty McCollum is in search of one other term in Minnesota’s Fourth Congressional District and again faces May...
