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NAACP president: Continue 20th century trend of expanding rights
Flanked by two dozen leaders of the Twin Cities African-American community, NAACP President Benjamin Jealous Monday said black Minnesotans have a number of reasons to vote down the proposal to amend...
View ArticleElected judges hand down tougher sentences right before an election, study finds
Judges who are elected rather than appointed hand down more severe sentences in the months proceeding an election than they do earlier in their terms, according to a recent study.The study wasn’t...
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Sen. Al Franken pays tribute to Paul and Sheila Wellstone
As Minnesotans remember the 10th anniversary of the death of Sen. Paul Wellstone, Sen. Al Franken has released a video paying tribute to Paul and his wife Sheila, who he credits as a major source of...
View ArticleWhy the St. Paul Pioneer Press dropped political endorsements
I know who the St. Paul Pioneer Press is going to endorse for President. And Senator. And the legislature.No one.In a rare but increasingly common industry move, the Pioneer Press has ditched political...
View ArticleForeign policy debate: Turns out Romney’s a peacenik
Last night, Mitt Romney came out of the closet as a great admirer of President Barack Obama’s work, at least on foreign policy. Turns out, Romney agrees with and would continue the great majority of...
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Summer interns, armed with iPads, save Minneapolis $250,000
A group of Public Works summer interns, armed with iPads, has saved Minneapolis about $250,000.The interns completed a federally mandated inventory of the city’s 5,100 intersections — cataloging some...
View ArticlePanel will look at how cameras in courtrooms test is progressing
A panel of reporters and judges on Wednesday will discuss how a test of cameras in the courtrooms is going in Minnesota.The Supreme Court is allowing cameras in some civil trials, if the judge agrees,...
View ArticleWar veteran featured in ad for 'Vote No' on voting amendment
The latest ad against the voting amendment from the Our Vote Our Future group features Iraq war veteran Alex Erickson of Minneapolis, who says military IDs might not be considered valid under the...
View ArticleLibertarian presidential candidate Johnson urges 'No' vote on Minnesota...
Gary Johnson, the Libertarian Party's candidate for president, issued a statement today urging Minnesotans to vote no on the marriage amendment.Johnson said:"I hope Minnesota voters will reject this...
View ArticleVoting amendment foes mobilize college students to get out message
Opponents of the proposed voting amendment on Tuesday mobilized college students to hammer home its message: The ballot question is too expensive to implement and could significantly alter absentee...
View ArticleSteele County says voter ID could cost it $100,000
Steele County auditor Laura Ihrke has tallied the numbers and says the proposed Voted ID amendment could cost the county close to $100,000, writes Derek Sullivan of the Owatonna People's Press. The...
View ArticleMarriage amendment forum Tuesday night in Maplewood
A forum on the marriage amendment will be held Tuesday night in Maplewood, with both sides of the issue represented.The event, sponsored by the Maplewood Human Rights Commission, will include a...
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Duluth paper & Strib: 'No' on Voter ID
The never-to-be-confused-with-wild-eyed-liberals Duluth News Tribune editorial board has also come out against both of the GOP’s amendment issues: “Minnesota voters on Nov. 6 can be just as careful...
View ArticleChina-bashing rhetoric like Romney's is counterproductive
“This is a great example of what we can do to not only to save lives, but add jobs.” — Sen. Amy Klobuchar, speaking about medical devices Oct. 10 at the Hormel Institute.In presidential debates, former...
View ArticleBehind the Minnesota reference in Monday's debate
Minnesota is, by most counts, not an especially competitive state in November’s presidential election, so it stands to reason that, when pandering to voters in their nationally-televised debates,...
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Paul Wellstone: a leader who respected people — and was inspired by them
The phone on my desk was ringing. I had just left a tense meeting about a crisis surrounding our last event for Sen. Paul Wellstone’s 2002 U.S. Senate race. The crisis, which had been upsetting me for...
View ArticleTV station drops DFL ad attacking Cravaack's residency
WDIO-TV in Duluth, part of the Hubbard empire, has dropped the latest DFL Party ad supporting Rick Nolan, the one accusing Chip Cravaack of “not even living in the district.” Megan Boldt of the PiPress...
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How to work around the Electoral College — without amending the Constitution
One in a series of articles. You can read the whole series here.I’m almost done beating up on the great and glorious Electoral College system. A couple of final thoughts:Notwithstanding the worshipful...
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Luke Sullivan's Rochester memoir tells it like it really was
“Rochester, Minnesota, is a privileged white enclave of conservative Republicans nestled in the southeastern corner of a Democratic state,” begins Luke Longstreet Sullivan in his memoir, "Thirty Rooms...
View ArticleCan a gang truce in El Salvador open the door to lasting peace?
The streets of this city's toughest barrios are quieter than they have been in years — a disquieting tranquility, residents say, because it has come from a truce no one believed possible between two of...
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