State Sen. Tom Bakk (one of the 5,589,358,587,568,120 people who ran for the DFL gubernatorial nomination this year) is staying where he is, especially since he’s about to become minority leader. • GA-St. House: One more D-to-R party switcher to report, and it’s a fairly...
Following Justin Eichorn’s resignation from the Minnesota Senate on Thursday, leadership from both sides of the aisle were asked to comment on any parallels to Senator Nicole Mitchell (DFL-Woodbury). Both party leaders quickly shot down any comparisons. News Rochester’s new fire chief officially...
• MN-02: On the Dem side, though, former state Rep. Shelley Madore has decided to keep running in the primary even though the DFL endorsement went to Dan Powers. • NH-01: In a surprise to almost no one, Sean Mahoney (who made a big show of quitting his committee position on...
Minnesota State Senator Nicole Mitchell (DFL-Woodbury) spoke to the Senate Ethics Committee for the first time without legal counsel present on Thursday morning, testifying against two separate ethics complaints filed against her. News Still no school funding plan as Iowa districts face weekend deadli...
After winning a special election in House District 40B (Roseville), Representative David Gottfried was sworn in on Monday afternoon. Gottfried’s confirmation puts the DFL at 67 votes, enough to tie them with the Republican Party. high school sports ...
the adversity reached a new height in 1962, when Karl Rolvaag, a DFL lieutenant governor, ran against the incumbent governor, Elmer Anderson, in the days before a state constitutional amendment requiring both candidates to run on the same ticket beginning in 1966 and extending their terms from ...