Flags around the Minnesota capitol will fly at half-staff Friday not only for Patriot Day, the eighth anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks, but in honor of Richard Crittenden, the North St. Paul police officer who was killed in the line of duty this week.

A political action committee created by Rep. Betty McCollum, D-Minn., donated $1,000 today to Rob Miller, who is seeking to unseat Rep. Joe Wilson -- the South Carolina Republican who gained instant notoriety this week when he shouted "You lie!" during President Obama's address to a joint session of Congress on health care reform.

A health care reform community discussion hosted by Rep. Betty McCollum, D-Minn., will be held from 7 to 8:30 tonight at Macalester College in St. Paul.

[Note: this story originally appeared in the July 31 edition of The Weekly Report.] Vacation, all [they] ever wanted, vacation, had to get away." Minnesota ...

Just after the DFL Feminist Caucus announced they’d endorsed Al Franken, U.S. Rep. Betty McCollum (D-MN4) stopped by the press area and said she is ...

The Republican convention in Rochester this past weekend was a somewhat staid and stultifying affair. Staid because there was nary a balloon or speck of ...

Wayne Brandt is worried that illegal timber cutting in far-off foreign forests is putting an unwarranted knot in the image of Minnesota’s timber industry. When ...

Obi Sium, the Republican-endorsed candidate in Minnesota’s 4th Congressional District, grew up in poverty and without democratic freedoms in what is now Eritrea in eastern ...