By: Aubrey Whelan | Washington Examier
Rep. Keith Ellison, D-Minn., embarked on a 24-hour hunger strike in solidarity with four Occupy DC protesters who have gone without food since Dec. 8 to advocate for D.C. voting rights.
Ellison, the first Muslim to …
By David Bailey
(Reuters) – Minnesota’s political leaders on Sunday touted “considerable progress” in negotiating details of a state budget accord but did not say when a special legislative session might be held to end a 17-day government shutdown.
Democratic Governor Mark …
By Tami Luhby @CNNMoney
NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — More than a week after Minnesota shuttered all but essential government services, there’s no end in sight to the budget impasse.
After a contentious series of meetings since the July 1 shutdown, Governor …
By Mark Sommerhauser, St. Cloud (Minn.) Times
Bob Pogatchnik has spent 25 years in the workforce. Now, Minnesota’s state government shutdown has put him in an unfamiliar place: the unemployment line.
Pogatchnik, 45, of Albany, is a Minnesota Department of Transportation (MnDOT) …
From Leslie Tripp, CNN
(CNN) — The Minnesota government was forced to shut down for the second time in six years after lawmakers failed to meet a budget agreement Thursday before a midnight deadline.
Gov. Mark Dayton held a news conference to announce …
By DAVID CRARY, Associated Press
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — With New York now gearing up for same-sex weddings, the battle lines are forming for the next skirmishes over gay marriage — and the most dramatic could come in Minnesota.
Gay-marriage supporters …
By Rob Jennings, USA TODAY
Going to the local convenience store to buy a lottery ticket might be the next common practice to give way to technology.
Minnesota began offering online …
By Tricia Miller, Roll Call
Because of Sen. Amy Klobuchar’s strong position at the beginning of the cycle, Roll Call Politics has moved the Minnesota Senate race from Leans Democratic to the less competitive Likely Democratic.
A former county attorney, Klobuchar defeated …
BY MARK SOMMERHAUSER, St. Cloud Times
U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann may be mulling a run for president in 2012, as her chief adviser confirmed Wednesday that such a bid is possible.
ABC News first reported that Bachmann is considering a presidential run …
By David Eldridge-The Washington Times
Democrats captured the nation’s last contested gubernatorial and House races Wednesday, a small consolation prize in a year of major Republican gains.
In Minnesota, former Democratic Sen. Mark Dayton completed a remarkable comeback as …
