Minnesota Lawyer

Ellen Anderson remembers the door she knocked on in 1992 that made her realize that her preconceptions about male voters might be somewhat inaccurate.

GOP gubernatorial candidate Tom Emmer's plan to jump-start Minnesota's economy by creating jobs, announced this week, is being criticized as "smoke and mirrors" and more of the same policies of eight years of Gov. Tim Pawlenty's administration.

Half of those who took part in a strictly unscientific poll at the 2010 Minnesota State Fair believe that a combination of spending reductions and revenue increases would be the best plan to solve the state's projected $5 billion state budget deficit.

In October 1933, the 21 members of the Constitutional Convention of Minnesota unanimously agreed that the 18th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which had established Prohibition 14 years earlier, should be repealed.

DFL-endorsed gubernatorial candidate Margaret Anderson Kelliher released her 2009 federal tax return this afternoon and called on her fellow candidates to do the same.

Tarryl Clark's congressional campaign has made an online-only advertising buy of ads attacking Rep. Michele Bachmann's remarks about the BP oil spill.

Political candidates were out in force this morning at Eagan's annual Fourth of July parade; check out our gallery of images.

With an upcoming gubernatorial election, every seat in the Minnesota Legislature up for grabs and what some are calling a conservative political groundswell, forces on both sides of the abortion battle are gearing up to support candidates whom they see as allies.

Bill Walsh, communications director for the Minnesota Department of Education, is taking a four-month leave of absence to become deputy communications director for Tom Emmer's gubernatorial campaign.

The Minnesota Nurses Association, which had a strike scheduled to begin July 6, has reached an agreement with 14 Twin Cities hospitals on new collective bargaining agreements, according to a joint statement this afternoon from both groups.