Breaking the Ice: Digging into law, collaboration fuel class actions

Todd Nelson January 18, 2019

Andrew Murphy is a partner at Faegre Baker Daniels. (Submitted photo)

"Sometimes we’re too quick to impute motives to our adversaries."

Capitol Retort: Sowing Daudt, optimism, guns and schools

Kevin Featherly January 16, 2019

Gov. Tim Walz, left, talks with House Minority Leader Kurt Daudt just before a briefing for reporters on Monday in St. Paul. (AP photo: Steve Karnowski)

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Breaking the Ice: Public policy background informs legal practice

Todd Nelson January 11, 2019

Christina Rieck Loukas earned a master of public policy degree while completing her legal studies. (Submitted photo)

“A lot of my clients are affordable-housing developers," Christina Rieck Loukas said.

In the Hopper: GOP Senate, DFL House list their priorities

Kevin Featherly January 10, 2019

New Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan gavels in the Minnesota Senate on Jan. 8, heralding the start of the 2019 legislative session. Flanagan, 39, is a citizen of the White Earth Nation of Ojibwe who served in the Minnesota House from 2015 to 2018. She told reporters last week that she plans to reshape the office of the lieutenant governor by building on the template established by former Gov. Mark Dayton and former Lt. Gov. Tina Smith. With Gov. Tim Walz at her side Monday, she described herself as the new governor’s “top adviser.” She has already had an impact, playing a key role in the selection of all the new agency commissioners during the transition. (Staff photo: Kevin Featherly)

The House being twice as large the Senate, DFLers listed exactly twice as many priority bills — 10 to the Senate’s five.

Capitol Retort: Get ’er done, felon voting, Bambi-oozled

Kevin Featherly January 9, 2019

State Rep. Jeanne Poppe, left, D-Austin, joins Minnesota House colleagues with hands raised to take the oath of office as the 2019 Legislature convened Tuesday in St. Paul. (AP Photo: Jim Mone)

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The moral arc of Indian agent Lawrence Taliaferro

Zac Farber January 3, 2019

U.S. Indian agent Lawrence Taliaferro, a bureaucrat who played a crucial role in the seizure of Native American land in the Upper Mississippi Valley in the 1830s, came to deplore the “rascality and frauds permitted by the treaty making power generally.”