What are our priorities for a president? Pew poll shows they’re malleable
Pew asked what more important in choosing a president, someone who held views you agreed with, or someone who set a good moral example for the country?
Politics & Policy
After positive results, Minneapolis looks to expand anti-violence program
The success of the city’s group violence intervention strategy has prompted Mayor Jacob Frey to propose growing the program so that it can address gang violence in south Minneapolis.
As D.C. Republicans anoint a candidate in Minnesota’s Seventh District, challengers say ‘not so fast’
“They’re basically giving the middle finger to the whole endorsing process,” said Dave Hughes, who has twice been the Republican nominee to challenge Democratic Rep. Collin Peterson.
State Government
Minnesota lawmaker drafting plan to allow importation of prescription drugs
Minnesota Sen. Michelle Benson currently favors a plan that would have the state work with drug makers to import their own products from other countries — or offer the drugs at the same prices here as the companies charge in foreign markets.
Eric Black Ink
It doesn’t matter who the Trump whistleblower is
Even if you believe he was biased, the impeachment inquiry no longer depends on anything the whistleblower wrote or whistled.
D.C. Memo
D.C. Memo: Farming corporations are people too
Impeachment hearings; farm aid; Amazon walkout; and more.
Good Jobs
Is the latest DHS scandal really about DHS? Or even a scandal?
DEED had more than double the amount of contract infractions DHS did. And the violations at both agencies mostly involved technical mistakes: No state money was actually spent before contracts were finalized or purchases were approved, say state officials.
Eric Black Ink
How Sinclair Lewis described his fictional fascist president
“The Senator was vulgar, almost illiterate, a public liar easily detected, and in his “ideas” almost idiotic,” Lewis wrote in “It Can’t Happen Here.”
Eric Black Ink
U.S. military aid to Ukraine: Taylor testimony lays out the stakes
Obviously, you’re getting the news of the first day of the public House committee hearings on impeachment from a lot of sources, but I just wanted to note one thing that struck me while watching it, in which Acting Ambassador to Ukraine Bill Taylor (who comes across as a dream witness, in terms of credibility) […]
From Other Nonprofit Media
Senators’ silence suggests they may be taking their impeachment trial duty seriously
There is nothing requiring the senators to remain silent on the issues. No written law or rule instructs senators to take that approach.
Environment
More than half of Minnesota waters — including the St. Croix River — are ‘impaired.’ What does that mean?
The latest impaired waters list completes a 10-year research effort to collect data on Minnesota’s 80 watersheds.
Eric Black Ink
Richard Stengel on how Trump has repositioned key U.S. values
“Whatever Trump means by ‘America First,’ I would argue that promoting democracy, the rule of law, modernism and a globalized world is in the interest of the United States,” Stengel said.
State Government
The wrath of Kahn? Why Minneapolis City Council members will have to run for two-year terms in 2021
The so-called Kahn Rule, named after former state Rep. Phyllis Kahn, requires Minneapolis to hold elections soon after the census-driven redistricting of City Council wards, and it changes a fundamental feature of city politics: that all city offices are on the ballot at the same time.
