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Reaction to Rep. Bachmann pulling out of the National Tea Party Convention in Nashville has been mixed. The organizers of the event had kind words to say about Bachmann, but at least one group of Tea Partiers gave the congresswoman a tongue-lashing this weekend. Bachmann, along with Rep. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., pulling out of the [...]

Anti-abortion license plates could appear on vehicles in Minnesota if a new bill passes the legislature this year. Legislators submitted a flurry of new bills on Monday well ahead of the start of the session in February. One submitted by Republican Rep. Larry Howes of Walker would initiate a “Choose Life” license plate program in [...]

Allen Quist, a Republican hoping to secure the nomination to run against Rep. Tim Walz in Minnesota’s First Congressional district, responded to criticisms over a YouTube video in which Quist said the battle against Democrats was bigger than the battle against terrorism. In emails with the Minnesota Independent, he says his words were taken out of context.

Allen Quist, a Republican who is seeking to defeat Rep. Tim Walz in southern Minnesota’s First Congressional District, told attendees of the Wabasha County Republicans Christmas Party in mid-December that beating the “radical” liberals in Washington, D.C., is a bigger battle than beating terrorism.

Sen. Amy Klobuchar, and Reps. Tim Walz and Jim Oberstar each earned a 100-percent rating from Environment Minnesota in a year-end congressional scorecard published last week. Rep. Erik Paulsen scored the lowest among Minnesota’s member of Congress with a rating of 17 percent.

The National Center for Transgender Equality (NTCE) slammed Gov. Pawlenty last week for his telling Newsweek that Minnesota’s laws protecting transgender people from employment discrimination should be changed. Pawlenty called the 1993 Minnesota Human Rights Act “overbaked” because “if you are a third-grade teacher and you are a man and you show up on Monday [...]

Rep. Michele Bachmann’s constituents have noticed that her increasingly prominent role as a high-profile conservative has focused her attention away from her district’s needs, but they don’t seem to mind.

On Wednesday night, Rep. Michele Bachmann participated in the Family Research Council’s “prayercast” against the health reform bill being debated in Congress. Bachmann and religious right leader Lou Engle led the group in prayer as participants chanted and churchgoers watched around the country.

Minnesota is still in danger of losing a seat in Congress — with the odds on Michele Bachmann’s disappearing, some speculate — if the U.S. Census count comes in just a bit shy as experts have been warning it could. But the state demographer tells Minnesota Public Radio the recession has slowed immigration out of [...]

A meeting of Twin Cities Quakers has decided to stop signing marriage certificates until all couples in Minnesota are allowed to marry. The decision, made in November, was a topic of Minnesota Public Radio’s All Things Considered on Monday.