St. Paul is voting on a sales tax increase. How do this year’s City Council candidates feel about it?
The incumbents seeking re-election support the 1% hike. The remaining candidates are split.
Elections
Who’s running for City Council in Minneapolis and St. Paul in 2023
See who’s on the ballot where you live — and where the candidates stand on several hot topics like rent control, police department spending, sales taxes and trash collection.
Soren Stevenson lost an eye protesting Minneapolis Police; now he’s running for City Council
After grappling with “what it means to be a white man shot in the struggle for Black liberation,” Stevenson decided to run for office. If he wins, he’ll unseat a pioneering Black and trans politician.
With ACLU, formerly incarcerated Minnesotans ask to intervene in suit challenging restoration of voting rights
The ACLU filed a a request to intervene on behalf of two formerly incarcerated Minnesotans who are among those whose voting rights were restored as part of a new state law.
A voter’s guide to who is influencing the 2023 Minneapolis City Council elections
A divided Minneapolis City Council is up for election in November, and there’s a lot at stake on issues from housing to transit to public safety.
Has Nevada banned Trump from the ballot?
No. Nevada has not banned the former president from the 2024 ballot, because no candidate is as yet on the state’s ballot — formal candidate filing for the 2024 presidential election will not open until October.
Has Wisconsin been decided by less than 1 percentage point in four of the last six presidential elections?
Yes. The candidate who carried Wisconsin in the 2020, 2016, 2004 and 2000 presidential elections won the state by less than 1 percentage point.
Pro-Israel PAC pushing Minneapolis Councilwoman LaTrisha Vetaw to challenge Ilhan Omar
While AIPAC targets Omar, Congressional Black Caucus PAC endorses endorses the lawmaker
Emmer’s GOP leadership job requires he raise a lot of political money, and he does
Emmer raised about $5.3 million in the first six months of this year in his personal campaign account and PACs, more money than he raised in the entire, two-year, 2021-2022 campaign cycle.
Dean Phillips running for president?
To many Democrats, it’s an unwelcome “distraction.”
Klobuchar pressing for national voting standards aimed at increasing ballot access
Her Freedom to Vote Act includes mandating at least two weeks of in-person early voting, establishing a national standard for mail-in voting and establishing new, uniform rules for congressional redistricting aimed at ending partisan gerrymandering.
Though early in campaign season, Minnesota members of Congress have head start in fundraising
Emmer has raised $2.4 million in his personal campaign account, Omar, nearly $1.2 million and Craig $1.5 million.
‘Anything is possible’: Recovery advocate, ex-felon makes a run for Duluth City Council
Until this spring, when Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz signed a bill restoring voting rights to ex-felons, Miranda Pacheco would not have been able to vote. Now, her first-ever vote will be for herself.
Are France’s elections conducted using only paper ballots?
No. While most municipalities in France use paper ballots, not all do.
Who’s running in Minnesota in 2022: Statewide offices and U.S. House
Tracking all the declared candidates.
What does Minnesota’s Legal Marijuana Now Party do … now?
The Legal Marijuana Now Party plans to evolve, but a new state law makes it more difficult for political parties to gain major party status.
Who votes with whom on the Minneapolis City Council? As election season heats up, a look at the current balance of power
Council members’ records on close votes help illustrate what’s at stake in November’s election, during which Minneapolis voters will choose representatives for all 13 of the city’s wards.
Minnesota still years away from even considering statewide ranked choice voting under revised legislation
A proposal earlier in the legislative session called for stateside ranked choice voting in time for the 2026 election. What’s still alive now is a task force that would consider it among a variety of election issues.
Will requiring ‘spoiler’ candidates to jump through more hoops make Minnesota democracy more ‘elegant’?
Senate DFLers are touting their new proposal as more “elegant” than a House proposal to require 10% of the vote on a statewide ballot to achieve “major party” status.
Minnesota Democrats, except Dean Phillips, say they back Biden’s reelection
Phillips, D-3rd District, the first lawmaker to call for a new generation of Democratic leadership in the White House, said Biden should be challenged.
