What you need to know about voting and following election results in Minneapolis (and St. Paul)
A quick guide to what’s on the ballot, how ranked-choice voting works — and when to expect results.
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With revitalized leadership, a Twin Cities NAMI affiliate is flexing its muscles — by focusing county-level advocacy
Under former Minnesota Rep. Mindy Greiling, NAMI Ramsey County has focused on lobbying at the county level. Why? Because that’s where the money is.
MinnPost’s 2021 Minneapolis and St. Paul election coverage
Election Day is nearly upon us in Minneapolis and St. Paul, and MinnPost wants to help you make an informed decision at the polls this year.
Six takeaways from the latest Minneapolis campaign finance reports
The amount of money raised by candidates and political committees offers a peek into the state of the race in the final days before election day.
Minneapolis homeless shelter expansion gets funding boost from city, Hennepin County
Minneapolis and Hennepin County each committed $3.5 million in ARP funding to the Simpson Housing Services project.
An internal poll showed Frey with a 19-point lead in the Minneapolis mayoral race. But in an RCV election, he could still lose.
It’s rare for candidates who lead in first-choice votes in ranked-choice elections to be defeated, but it can happen under certain circumstances.
I witnessed an MPD squad car smash into an SUV. It took 28 months to get the dash cam footage of the accident.
The officer driving the squad car was not directly disciplined for crashing into a Lexus. Or for endangering pedestrians. Instead, he was disciplined for violating three department policies governing use of seat belts and for “normal and emergency vehicle operations.”
Voter turnout goes down during city elections. Why does it drop so much less in some Minneapolis wards?
Ward 6, home to one of Minneapolis’ largest immigrant communities, ranks among the top wards for turnout during city election years — and among the bottom during presidential years.
A look at one of the biggest issues affecting the Minneapolis City Council election. (The 2023 election.)
Whoever wins council seats this November, they’ll only hold them for two years, when new elections will be held with newly drawn ward boundaries. The process of redrawing those boundaries is already underway.
It could soon be harder to sell used catalytic converters in Minneapolis
As thefts of catalytic converters surge, Council Member Andrew Johnson is proposing to prohibit sales of used catalytic converters by anyone other than “bona fide” auto shops.
Will the Minneapolis Police Department really be ‘dismantled’ in 30 days if the public safety amendment passes?
Campaign mailers distributed by All of Mpls, a political committee that is opposing the amendment, have said that approval of the measure “would remove the police department 30 days after the election with no timeline or plan for its replacement.”
Are they ever going to tear down the old Kmart blocking Nicollet Avenue?
Last month, the city extended the terms of the U.S. Postal Service’s lease of the site.
In Carter’s march toward re-election, some see parallels to St. Paul’s longest serving mayors
Unlike his colleague across the river, St. Paul Mayor Melvin Carter has faced little serious competition in his bid for re-election. Why?
‘Our biggest competition is apathy’: a Q&A with St. Paul Mayor Melvin Carter
Carter, up for re-election this year, discusses his 2022 budget, policing — and what he wants to do with second term
What to know about St. Paul’s 2022 budget
As the St. Paul City Council prepares to consider the city’s property tax levy this week, here’s what to know about its 2022 budget — and the millions of dollars coming the city’s way under the federal American Rescue Plan.
What to know about Minneapolis’ government structure ballot measure, aka the ‘strong mayor’ question
What the amendment says, and what it would mean for the city if approved.
Last year, Minneapolis police announced a new policy on no-knock warrants. Since then, they’ve asked for 90 of them.
Even though city officials contend their policy has made no-knock warrants safer — and not all of those warrants were necessarily carried out — critics of the practice have expressed surprise at the figures.
Minneapolis continues to see stark gaps in vaccination rates across the city
While more than 90 percent of residents in far southwest Minneapolis are fully vaccinated, less than 50 percent of residents in other parts of the city are.
From ‘St. Paul: An Urban Biography’: Labor strife — and accommodation
Labor disputes in St. Paul typically were small-scale and short-term, and organizers made liberal use of ostensible St. Paul communitarian values to coerce city employers to display social responsibility.
Noting matters: a much too detailed look at the Minneapolis City Council’s charter amendment ‘explanatory language’ saga
With the city finally, maybe, probably, finalizing what Minneapolis voters will encounter on their ballots this fall, here’s a look at what the questions will say — and how the city got there.
