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.
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.
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.
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.
Every phrase of this run-on sentence was spoken by Newt Gingrich in the debate last night.
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.
After Bachmann’s exit, nomination schedule might put Minnesota caucuses in the spotlight
Minnesotans caucus on Feb. 7. In most years, the state’s caucuses have received little attention because they either were held late or were overshadowed by bigger primaries.
But this time around, Minnesota pops up seventh on the list of states in the nomination process.
An alternative take on last week’s scandal, from MinnPost web editor Corey Anderson.
Print headlines - hilarious! (Hat tip: Practical Obscurity)
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.
Cleverly designed research at the University of Minnesota supports other studies indicating people who identify with the Tea Party hold more negative racial beliefs than other Americans.
Michele Bachmann gets an earful from a 8 year old.
“Miss Bachmann, my mommy’s gay but she doesn’t need any fixing.”
We know how to house these folks. We just lack the political will.
Liz Kuoppala in Homeless, desperate and living out of cars.
There has been an unprecedented level of demand for housing assistance in Ramsey County and elsewhere in the Twin Cities. Now advocates are calling for solutions.
