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Commentary: Sources of surprise in the coming elections
What will shape the outcome of the 2018 elections nationally and in Minnesota?
Commentary: Key Minnesota races highly competitive
Democrats lead in races for both Senate seats and the governorship, but only in one case — Sen. Amy Klobuchar’s 53-38 percent lead over Jim Newberger — does the race appear to be noncompetitive.
Commentary: 3D guns and shootout at Bill of Rights Corral
These 3-D cases test the limits of what is speech and implicitly, whether a right to bear arms means obtaining the plans to build your own gun.
Commentary: Blue wave or Trump trend in Minnesota?
Let’s consider several aspects of the primary and post-primary situations to parse the big question.
Commentary: A blizzard of candidates for Minnesota in 2018
The confusion at the DFL convention suggested the renewed timeliness of the Will Rogers’ crack from 1935: “I am not a member of any organized party — I am a Democrat.”
Commentary: The fallout from Franken’s Senate resignation
How has the state and national political world changed?
Capitol Retort: Protester bills, town hall heat, skyrockets in flight
Our review of issues in state and national news, with a rotating cast of political people in the know.
Breaking the Ice: Court administrator’s role has statewide reach
“It’s great to be working for the third branch of government."
Politics of the Past: ‘Grave doubts’ couldn’t stop hanging
Ann Bilansky executed in 1860 despite shaky murder case
Room to breathe, argue with Minnesota’s $1.65B surplus
Minnesota's Republican-controlled Legislature and Democratic Gov. Mark Dayton will have more money to haggle over in the new budget, after state budget officials announced Tuesday that the projected budget surplus has grown to $1.65 billion. Top lawmakers had expected a $1.4 billion surplus, based on December estimates, but both sides have largely been in a budgetary holding pattern since sessi[...]
Minnesota Legislature votes to nix Sunday liquor sales ban
After a decade of stalled and failed efforts, Minnesota's Legislature has voted to allow Sunday liquor store sales as the Senate passed a bill Monday repealing the state's long-standing ban. The Senate's 38-28 approval of the bill put an exclamation point on an unprecedented effort to finally take down the state's old Blue Law that makes Minnesota one of just 12 states to ban Sunday liquor sa[...]
Top News
- Mexican food trademark fight grinds on in federal court
- Target faces ‘non-drowsy’ meds suit
- Melodie Rose named president at Fredrikson
- Supreme Court lawyers have rituals of their own
- Minnesota artists consider what’s next in AI copyrights
- Defining ‘and’ in sentencing statute falls to Supreme Court
- Hashtag rates higher libel protection
- Court: Performance issues, not bias, prompted union to fire organizer
Expert Testimony
- Briefly: A chat with Supreme Court Commissioner Tim Droske
- Perspectives: Oral arguments at high court stir lively debates
- Quandaries & Quagmires: Advance waivers: Lessons from Paul Hastings vs. Coca Cola
- Perspectives: Recent cellphone ruling recalls high court cases
