Former Duluth city councilor Sharla Gardner announced this week she would seek the DFL endorsement for the minnesota senate District 7 seat being vacated by Sen. Roger Reiner...
http://minnesotabrown.com/2016/01/former-councilor-gardner-to-seek-senate-7-seat.html
Efforts to try to get minnesota compliant with the federal Real ID Act continued Thursday as a workgroup made up of both senate and house memebers met on the issue. The issue ...
Three working groups of minnesota House and senate members are convening to see if they can salvage a potential special session.
http://www.news8000.com/news/lawmakers-gather-to-sort-out-possible-special-session-items/37310998
It is finally here. The thing politicos and newswatchers have been looking forward to with either anticipation or dread for nigh on a year: presidential primary season. All ...
http://peoplesworld.org/a-progressive-guide-to-the-primaries/
State Rep. Erik Simonson (DFL-Duluth) told supporters today in an e-mail that he plans to run for the State senate seat being vacated by Sen. Roger Reinert. Reinert announced ...
http://minnesotabrown.com/2016/01/simonson-tells-supporters-hes-eying-senate-run.html
This is the fourth in a series of eight regional looks at the most competitive House and senate races for 2016. The Midwest Region covers Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minneso...
http://blogs.rollcall.com/rothenblog/top-races-2016-midwest/
WRITTEN BY: Frank N. Wilner, Contributing Editor The critical takeaway from enactment in December of the Surface Transportation Board Reauthorization Act, S.808, is that, abs...
http://www.railwayage.com/index.php/blogs/frank-n-wilner/centrist-approach-may-quiet-stb-debate.html
It’s hard to know exactly how to characterize minnesota's biggest political developments in 2015. A divided Legislature managed to do very little last session outside of a s...
https://www.minnpost.com/politics-policy/2015/12/6-biggest-minnesota-political-stories-2015
There’s really no sugar-coating it: the country is more dissatisfied with Congress than ever before. In November, polls found that only one out of every ten Americans app...
Righteous. After months of regular briefings, meetings and lobbying with our colleagues to defeat the job-killing Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade agreement, our hard ...
http://mnprogressiveproject.com/opposition-to-tpp-is-ascending-in-minnesota-and-elsewhere/