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.
Who is funding Minnesota's gay marriage ban amendment?
We’ve created two interactive tables: one of donations from marriage ban opponents, one of the supporter donations.
You’ll see a huge discrepancy in the financial disclosure from the supporters of the ban. Read more about it here.
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.
Gary Eichten and the craft of journalism
CEO Bill Kling, Dave Felland, senior producer Greg Barron and Gary Eichten in the MPR studios in the 1970s.
(Picture courtesy Minnesota Public Radio)
Twin Cities remembers Martin Luther King
Steve Date’s slideshow from the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day celebrations in St. Paul and Minneapolis.
It’s not about new rules or more memos going out to stop checking from behind. It’s a cultural shift involving the adults around the game, to where we’re focusing not only on skill, but sportsmanship, fair play and respect. I’m not sure those are things that get addressed on a regular basis.
Hal Tearse, Minnesota Hockey’s Coach-in-Chief and boys’ coach at Providence Academy in Plymouth.
Divided youth hockey community has to do better job teaching — and protecting — its players
Minnesota’s city aid discussion dominated by cuts, confusion, criticism
A MinnPost survey of more than 30 city officials found that as the state sends fewer dollars to cities, questions mount about the fairness of the system. Those questions are sometimes left unanswered by a complex formula that many city officials don’t understand.
Who works for minimum wage or less in Minnesota?
A decade ago, Minnesota’s lowest-paid workers earned as much as minimum-wage earners elsewhere. Today, it’s one of nine states where some workers won’t even earn the federal minimum of $7.25 an hour.
The news that matters most to people is the news that affects them the most directly. That of course, is the local news. Local coverage is the key, and that takes people, lots of them, and money, lots of it. We skimp on that kind of coverage at our peril — and to the community’s detriment.
Charles W. Bailey II, in a speech in Minneapolis in 1982.
Bailey, a Minneapolis Tribune reporter and editor and later editor of the combined Minneapolis Star Tribune, died Tuesday at the age of of 82.
Sources: Amy Koch Had Inappropriate Relationship With Senate Staffer
Minnesota Senate Majority Leader Amy Koch resigned her post Thursday after she was confronted by GOP Senate leaders about allegations of an inappropriate relationship with a Senate staffer, according to high level State Capitol sources.
If allegations are true, the GOP has some big hurdles ahead.
Minnesotans help lay wreaths at Arlington National Cemetery
(MinnPost photo by Devin Henry)
