Time for Minnesota to move forward on health care reform
Minnesota Budget Bites With the June Supreme Court decision and 2012 presidential election behind us, it is now clear that the nation’s health reform law – the Affordable Care Act – is here to stay....
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Obama win boosts health law, but states still control its destiny
This article was produced by Kaiser Health News.President Barack Obama’s re-election ensures the survival of his landmark health-care law, but predominantly Republican state officials will get a big...
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AP calls the defeat of the marriage amendment
At 1:45 a.m. Wednesday morning, campaign manager Richard Carlbom of Minnesotans United for All Families was ending his remarks when communications director Kelly Schwinghammer declared, "The AP just...
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Margaret Anderson Kelliher, Vin Weber assess the vote
Vin WeberUniversity of Minnesota political scientist Larry Jacobs hosted former Minnesota House Speaker Margaret Anderson Kelliher of the DFL and former Republican Congressman Vin Weber early Wednesday...
View ArticleWhy Republicans won't be moving to Australia (despite their tweets)
This year, as the mathematical models of New York Times’ Nate Silver and other statisticians began showing that the odds of President Barack Obama being reelected were huge, some disgruntled voters on...
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Same-sex marriage: 'Minnesota, in particular ... is proof the tide has turned'
In the final moments of Tuesday night’s vote-no rallies at St. Paul’s River Centre, state Sen. John Marty stood, neat as a pin and looking a little verklempt, at one side of the stage where the...
View ArticleAdvocates for needy are hopeful DFL Legislature will support ‘poverty agenda’
Long before the election polls closed and the DFL walked away with the winning hand in the state’s House and Senate races Tuesday, advocates were making the case for more help for Minnesota’s poor.They...
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Minneapolis’ new police chief Janee Harteau says she’s ready to make tough...
As careers go, hers got off to a typical start for a cop. She patrolled the streets of Minneapolis. Janee Harteau says she just did the best she could in every assignment as she moved steadily up...
View ArticleHennepin Commissioner Jeff Johnson among potential '14 gov candidates
With Gov. Mark Dayton up for election in 2014, just two short years from now, talk will heat up soon on possible challengers.Hennepin County Commissioner Jeff Johnson told MPR this week that he's...
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Cindy Sherman show at the Walker; 'Untitled 9' at SooVAC
Friday, November 9Say Hello to CindyWHAT:Cindy ShermanWHERE: Walker Art Center, MinneapolisWHEN: 9 p.m. to midnightAlter Ego, the Walker After Hours kick-off party for the center’s massive Cindy...
View ArticleWhat you can and can't buy for $60 million
The campaign cycle that just ended was the first full flowering of the weed that we call the Citizens United system of campaign finance -- accidental, inexcusable, indefensible. But, it turns out,...
View ArticleElizabeth Emerson to head Goff Public's lobbying effort
Goff Public has hired Elizabeth Emerson as director of government relations, where she will lead the public relations firm's lobbying arm.Emerson had been a lobbyist with the Lockridge Grindal Nauen...
View ArticleSupporters say transit efforts in Minnesota boosted by election results
Hennepin County Commissioner Peter McLaughlin, who's also chair of the Counties Transit Improvement Board, says Tuesday's elections will improve chances of funding for transit projects, including...
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Catholic priest to archbishop: 'Resign'
The letter of the day comes from Fr. Michael Tegeder, who is already crossways with the Catholic archdiocese over its expensive, high-profile support of the marriage amendment. In the Strib, Tegeder...
View ArticleOne night in St. Paul: 'Dreams Come True' revelry — and Bob Dylan
It’s been a historic week in downtown St. Paul, particularly at River Centre and the Xcel Energy Center, which kicked off the week with two concerts from Madonna, who Saturday night encouraged her fans...
View ArticleThe ‘back story’ on Mayor Rybak and his mom’s Election Night crowd-surfing
My dynamite reporting skills have paid off once again. I was sitting in a chair at Minneapolis City Hall on Wednesday minding my own business and waiting for the next meeting to start.Then Mayor R.T....
View ArticleWhy do more votes translate into fewer U.S. House seats?
As of Wednesday late afternoon, Think Progress added up all of the votes cast across the country for U.S. House candidates and found that more voters had voted for Dem candidates than Repub.The...
View ArticleRachel Maddow suggests that the right gets real
This is from her Wednesday evening broadcast
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Michele Bachmann supporter pens campaign song
MinnPost contributor Michael Anthony recently bemoaned the lack of campaign songs in this day and age. Michele Bachmann fan Kathreen Margaret picked up her guitar and set her support to music.
View ArticlePoland takes top honors for 'most improved' in cutting red tape
When Marzenna Weresa asked her students at the Warsaw School of Economics in Poland what they wanted to do after graduation, most said they wanted to work for a transnational corporation. That was in...
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