Tom Dooher has been re-elected to a second three-year term as president of Education Minnesota, the state's 70,000-member teachers union.

The politics of education policy are unpredictable. That reality was on display at Tuesday's gathering of the Senate's Education Committee.

Teachers’ union is a lone — but loud — voice of opposition to omnibus bill The words being used to describe this year’s omnibus pension bill are more dramatic than those from previous legislative sessions. Legislators and lobbyists are referring to it as “shared sacrifice,” and one GOP state representative even used the term “bailout.”

A joint House and Senate panel approved a controversial omnibus pension bill today in the face of organized opposition from the statewide teachers' union.

Minnesota's statewide teachers union, which is often in the GOP's crosshairs, has hired a new top official with Republican ties to handle its day-to-day operations.

The big political spenders in Minnesota today are revealing their 2009 fundraising activities.

Education Minnesota, the largest union in the state, has endorsed Tarryl Clark in the 6th Congressional District contest. The Democratic state senator has garnered near universal support from organized labor in her bid to oust U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann.

Tweets this morning out of Minnesota Public Radio’s newsroom are saying Education Minnesota won’t endorse a gubernatorial candidate until at least Dec. 12.

A group of major Democratic party donors and fundraisers is banding together to try to ensure that the DFL's generation-long drought in Minnesota gubernatorial politics ends in 2010.

GOP activist Michael Brodkorb, who blogs at Minnesota Democrats Exposed, broke a whopper of a story yesterday: DFL Senate candidate Al Franken owes a $25,000 ...