What will shape the outcome of the 2018 elections nationally and in Minnesota?
Read More »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.
Read More »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.
Read More »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.
Read More »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.”
Read More »Commentary: The fallout from Franken’s Senate resignation
How has the state and national political world changed?
Read More »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.
Read More »Breaking the Ice: Court administrator’s role has statewide reach
“It’s great to be working for the third branch of government."
Read More »Bills seek more transparency for MnDOT projects
Project selection process at issue
Read More »Politics of the Past: ‘Grave doubts’ couldn’t stop hanging
Ann Bilansky executed in 1860 despite shaky murder case
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