Redistricting: Competition or safe seats?
Mike Dean, executive director of Common Cause Minnesota, calculates that the new district boundaries set the scene for competitive races in at least 51 House seats and 26 seats on the Senate side.
We just added Minnesota’s new congressional districts to an interactive map. Check out the changes, and see how the new districts slice through Minnesota demographic data.
Darby Nelson: A modern-day Thoreau
Nelson has written a book with the title “For Love of Lakes.” It is a finalist for the Minnesota Book Award. Darby draws his inspiration from Thoreau and has packed the new book with observations both emotional and scientific, much like his muse.
With Brodkorb gone, new GOP Senate style emerges
The dust-up over the state Senate Republicans’ distribution of pamphlets at caucuses, while not Watergate, has allowed the DFL to draw the first blood of the legislative session.
Family Academy’s ‘cradle to career’ effort under way in north Minneapolis
Here among a dense concentration of poor African-American families, only 3 of 10 children finish high school and fewer yet go on to college.
The Northside Achievement Zone (NAZ) and its Family Academy program are out to change that trajectory.
Minnesota is in the midst of redrawing its legislative and congressional districts.
This begins as a partisan process, with representatives of the state DFL and GOP submitting plans that they hope will give an edge to their party in the next elections.
Check out our interactive where you can view the DFL and GOP proposed plans layered onto demographic maps. When the districts are finalized by the courts next week, we’ll post those, too.
Reserve your spot at the third annual Book Club Blast
Bibliophiles young and old are invited to MinnPost’s third annual Book Club Blast on Sunday, Feb. 12, featuring keynote speaker Kate DiCamillo.
St. Paul Winter Carnival parade, ice sculptures in focus
Even though the weather isn’t as “seasonal” as most years, the St. Paul Winter Carnival is in full swing. MinnPost photographer Steve Date shot photos of the 2012 parade.
Scenes from the pond hockey championships at Lake Nokomis
The 7th annual U.S. Pond Hockey Championships were held last weekend at Lake Nokomis in Minneapolis. It’s the largest outdoor hockey event in the country, with over 270 teams and some 1,700 players participating. Check out more of Steve Date’s photos.
Yes, Uptown suffers from a personality crisis, but it’s also vibrant and undeniably walkable
It’s caught between a low-rent, artsy McPunk past and an absurdly gentrified present. But Miriam Rudolph’s etchings, Dave Eggers’ drawings and two side-by-side windows beckon.
A new column by the one and only Andy Sturdevant.
I’m not sure what it would serve to talk openly about what happened, not the people who sent me here, the people whom I work with, and my family.
It involves people who didn’t put their names on a ballot, and I’m just never going to talk about that.
Appeals court sends lawsuit on Minnesota's gay marriage ban back for more arguments
A lawsuit over Minnesota’s ban on same-sex marriage should not have been thrown out by a judge, the state Court of Appeals has ruled. The court sent the case back to the district court for further analysis of the constitutional issues.
Stunning images of America’s environments are returning to public view
In the early 1970s, the EPA paid top photographers to document the nation’s environmental riches and challenges. After 40 years, more than 15,000 of the images are now online — including more than 500 from Minnesota.
