NEW ULM — Flanked by New Ulm Mayor Bob Beussman, Minneapolis Mayor R.T. Rybak joined local city officials from south central Minnesota Wednesday to warn local residents about the crippling effects of potential cut to Local Government Aid (LGA) under the tax bill that Gov. Mark Dayton vetoed.
Had state Sen. Kathy Sheran’s bill to reform absentee voting dodged Gov. Tim Pawlenty’s veto pen last year, it might have spared Minnesota at least some of the agony of the current statewide recount. Sheran has denied foreknowledge that the outcome of Minnesota’s U.S. Senate race this year would hang on absentee ballots. Now she tells the Minnesota Independent that her reform effort also wasn’t inspired by a recount involving a contested absentee ballot in her first race 24 years ago. That story is told in government meeting minutes that are — amazingly — available online going back more than 50 years at the City of Mankato Web site. But proximity to the state’s most dramatic recounts seems to run in the family for Sheran, whose father was a longtime justice on the state Supreme Court.
The Mankato Free Press is accused of using the Lord’s name in vain: On January 14, it ran a story about city ordinance changes that affect highway ads, junked cars and roadside landscaping ornaments. Headlined…
The passage of the statewide smoking ban has brought a collective sigh of relief to both sides of the Minnesota River where it bends to the northeast in southern Minnesota. On the north side of the river is North Mankato,…
“Southwestern Minnesota politics is based on populism,” said the dinner guest at the 11th annual Dan and Ronnie Burton dinner held in the ballroom of the student union at Minnesota State University, Mankato, Saturday night. The folks in St. Paul…
In what could be a stinging comment on the high cost of education at Minnesota’s public universities, students at Minnesota State University, Mankato strongly rejected two options for expanding student-funded recreational facilities on campus. The…
Politics is full of irony, which is like saying, “Yes, bears do perform natural behaviors in the woods.” One of those recent ironies occurred when the Minnesota State University, Mankato College Republicans
There is a broader solution. With proper leadership we will find it.
Now that the Federal Railroad Administration has told the Dakota, Minnesota & Eastern railroad that it is not going to give it the hoped-for $2.3 billion…
MSU Theater Challenges Its Traditional Audience with Controversial Play
Greater Mankato is not known for controversial theater. It’s more known for being one of the
Tim Walz’s surprising victory is just a symbol of a city’s success that has been brewing for a long time
When I first moved to Mankato, Minnesota, in the fall of 1986, I thought I was moving to…
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