Watchdog groups, political partisans plan busy Election Day at Minnesota polls
Independent and partisan watchdog groups, political parties, national campaigns and governmental officials will be busy at the polls Tuesday observing operations throughout Minnesota, a state known of...
View ArticleAssessing Bachmann-Graves debates: How they differ on the issues
DLF challenger Jim Graves and Rep. Michele Bachmann from their first debate on Oct. 30 in St. Cloud.Throughout the 6th District Congressional race, the battle on the airwaves and on the ground has been...
View ArticleVoting amendment foes say 65 newspapers urge readers to vote no
In its final ad of the campaign season, Our Vote Our Future, the group leading opposition to the voting amendment, says 65 newspaper editorials from around Minnesota have urged a no vote on the...
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It can’t happen here: Preparing the Twin Cities for the worst
streets.mn Because we, the righteous, live in the blessed Midwest, we do not face God’s Wrath. We are protected against all such natural disasters. CNN can entertain us with Disaster Porn while we...
View ArticleReport on fewer children dying from diabetes offers good, but not...
Positive health trends are always great to report, and last week researchers with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released some truly welcomed statistics: The death rate among...
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Vikings’ Ponder playing like a man in a straitjacket
In the beginning Sunday there was Adrian Peterson slashing the Seattle line, terrorizing tacklers, scoring twice and stirring himself into a frenzy; one man against 11.In another time it would have...
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Minnesota Power sends linemen to Maryland to restore power in Sandy's wake
With power outages afflicting people across the eastern United States in the wake of Hurricane Sandy, Duluth-based utility Minnesota Power has sent a crew of 13 linemen in utility trucks to drive from...
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Super-crosstabs! Obama soars, Photo I.D. plunges, Marriage Amendment slips
Out of nowhere — except for Our Vote, Our Future news releases — the Voter I.D. amendment has become a nail-biter. Up by double-digits as recently as Oct. 28, mandatory photo I.D. trails or is tied...
View ArticleWrite-in votes in Duluth legislative race could delay statewide results
Secretary of State Mark Ritchie warns poll-watchers that election results Tuesday night will be slowed by the counting of write-in votes expected in state House District 7B.Could be a very, very late...
View ArticleSt. Paul is finalist in innovation contest with plan to cut red tape
St Paul has made it to the final 20 in a national contest that asks cities to come up with innovative ideas to solve problems and improve life.There's a $5 million grand prize in the Bloomberg...
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View ArticleWatch for MinnPost's live election coverage
MinnPost journalists will be following developments closely on Election Day, providing coverage of the latest voting results and political news late into the evening.With the help of other MinnPost...
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Bills: 'I don't believe there is such a thing as climate change'
Apparently GOP Senate candidate Kurt Bills believes there are votes to be had in climate change denial.As Tom Scheck of MPR writes about its debate last night: “The hurricane that ravaged the East...
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Are we there yet? MnDOT takes stock
Minnesota has 142,000 miles of streets and highways, 4,458 miles of railroad track, 3,880 miles of walking and biking trails, 135 public airports, 77 counties with full transit service and nine ports...
View ArticleClaire McCaskill: 'most endangered Democrat' wins Missouri Senate race
Sen. Claire McCaskill topped everyone's list of most endangered Democrats, until her challenger's comments on "legitimate rape" suddenly made the gender gap a top issue in the campaign.Most voters in...
View ArticleLegalized marijuana, same-sex marriage make gains in ballot initiatives
Tuesday had a list of controversial and in some ways profound ballot measures around the country.Among them: Same-sex marriage, legalizing recreational marijuana, physician-assisted suicide, the death...
View ArticleWisconsin: Democrats retain US Senate seat that was a key GOP target
Former US Rep. Tammy Baldwin (D) of Wisconsin was elected to the US Senate Tuesday, keeping in Democratic hands a seat that was once key to the Republican strategy of gaining a Senate majority.At press...
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What happens now in Congress?
Democrats didn’t have quite the success on the national scale that they did in Minnesota Tuesday night, but they did well for themselves by most measures.President Obama won re-election, losing, it...
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Minnesotans on marriage: 'Love is bigger than government'
At about 1:30 this morning Richard Carlbom, head of the campaign to defeat a proposed constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage in Minnesota, gathered his troops in a private room at St....
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After winning back Legislature, triumphant DFL takes care not to ‘overstep’
It was shortly after 1 a.m. and joyful DFLers wanted to keep the party rolling.So several party leaders were pushing Rep. Paul Thissen to step to the podium and proclaim that the DFL had taken back...
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