Where things stand with mail delivery in Minnesota
Recent cuts at USPS have raised concerns about changes in service — and problems with vote-by-mail.
Politics & Policy
Four years after Philando Castile, St. Anthony police continue to pull over Black motorists at disproportionate rates
Since the St. Anthony police department started collecting data in 2017, the share of Black people its officers pulled over has increased each year.
D.C. Memo: A big franking problem
This week from Washington, big spending in Hagedorn’s office, what’s going on at the RNC and an update on the CD-7 race.
Minnesota unemployment claims have dropped faster in August than in any period since the pandemic began
In two recent weeks of data, continued unemployment claims dropped by 12 percent.
Why Minnesota and other states are worried about FEMA COVID relief payments
Minnesota and other states are being told that personal protective equipment might be removed from the list of expenses FEMA will reimburse them for.
Southwest light rail, a project left for dead (more than once), is 25 percent complete
Earlier this month, the Federal Transit Administration sent what’s called the full funding grant agreement for the $2 billion project to Congress, triggering a 30-day review that is mostly a formality.
The fight over the Minnesota Department of Commerce’s role in the Line 3 pipeline project, explained
The Department of Commerce says its decision to challenge a critical permit is focused on a narrow issue of law. But Republican state Senators say it’s a political choice, aimed at halting or delaying the pipeline.
The other mail scandal: Rep. Jim Hagedorn’s office spending problems, explained
Hagedorn recently made headlines for spending 40% of his congressional office’s annual budget in the first quarter of 2020 — much of it with a firm part-owned by one of his staffers.
With Fischbach on the ballot, can Republicans finally take Minnesota’s Seventh District?
Incumbent DFLer Rep. Collin Peterson’s margins of victory have been shrinking in recent elections. Will a better-known, better-funded opponent — and having Trump on the ballot — finally end his congressional career?
How marijuana legalization party candidates could decide control of the Minnesota Senate
Numerous legislative battleground races include pot party candidates, some with tenuous connections to the legalization movement, causing some DFLers to believe the candidates could simply be there to hurt Democrats.
D.C. Memo: Conventional jokes
This week from Washington, the Democratic convention, Rep. Jim Hagedorn fires his chief of staff and Trump’s new unemployment payments aren’t coming any time soon.
After ousting labor commissioner, GOP senators turn focus to Walz’s environmental appointees
If the Senate’s recent hearing schedule for Walz appointees are any indication, Republicans are not happy with one particular aspect of the governor’s administration: the state’s environmental policy.
Why Trump’s promised $400 extra unemployment benefit won’t reach Minnesotans any time soon
Minnesota officials are still waiting for guidance on how to implement the new program — if it’s even legal.
Minneapolis’ newest council member on homelessness, renters’ rights and why he wants to reform — not dismantle — the police
A Q&A with Jamal Osman, who won the Aug. 11 special election for the Minneapolis City Council seat representing Ward 6.
Who’s running for Congress in Minnesota in 2020
We’re tracking all the candidates for the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate.
What Minnesota’s mid-pandemic primary means for the November election
Overall, election officials were pleased with how smoothly things went in last week’s primary, despite a number of COVID-19 induced obstacles.
Minnesota helped build momentum for women’s suffrage
Here, ratification of the constitutional amendment occurred in September 1919.
‘Enthusiasm and a poor grasp of the facts’: a Q&A with the Bud for Minnesota campaign, whatever that is
The campaign was created to promote Budland Q. “Bud” McKenzie, who supposedly operates a mail order clothing catalog for barrel-chested dogs out of Bloomington, to run for a yet-to-be-named office.
Omar’s primary victory affirms progressives’ control of Minnesota’s Fifth District
Omar’s decisive victory was driven by a progressive turnout machine built over the last decade.
No, police reform won’t be on Minneapolis voters’ ballots in 2020. But two other questions will be.
One is procedural, but the other will determine just how often the city’s voters will be heading to the polls over the next decade.
