Ousted Maplewood mayor Diana Longrie attributes her loss a week ago to union opposition and the write-in candidacy of Ken Smart, but she hasn’t ruled out a run at the council seat made vacant by Will Rossbach’s win.
DelRay Rokke and Ken Smart didn’t make the cut during last month’s primary election in Maplewood. Smart finished third in a seven-candidate mayoral field, while Rokke took fifth in the…
An anonymous flier in Maplewood last week targeting openly gay city council candidate Jim Llanas has raised a ruckus in advance of Tuesday’s city election. But the situation in Maplewood is not unique: LGBT candidates across the…
With just under a week until the Maplewood city elections, the quirky politics of the suburb just north of St. Paul have taken some interesting turns. Dueling fliers that some residents have found “racist and homophobic” and a 911 recording of a candidate allegedly threatening a neighbor are among the more noteworthy occurrences.
When Maplewood city council candidate Jim Llanas told the Minnesota Independent this summer, “Brace yourself. It’s just going to get ugly,” he wasn’t far off the mark. An anonymous flier being distributed about Llanas, who would be both the first openly gay and the first Hispanic city council member in the city’s history, is being described as racist and homophobic by a progressive group and a city council member.
The Maplewood mayoral contest will be a rematch of the 2005 race. Incumbent Diana Longrie will once again face off against city council member Will Rossbach. In a seven-candidate…
It’s election day — although you’d be hard-pressed to find much evidence of that fact.
The most intriguing political contests of 2009 might just be in Maplewood, the Ramsey County suburb that’s become notorious for its combustible politics. “Brace yourself,” one candidate says of this year’s races. “It’s just going to get ugly.”
As the media has cast a more skeptical eye toward Sarah Palin in recent days, the revelations about her tenure as mayor of Wasilla and governor of Alaska have sounded oddly familiar. The vindictive firings of bureaucrats over…
The chaos in Maplewood city government — budget numbers not in the computer, value of fixed assets unknown, journal entries unchecked and unauthorized, employee turnover rate at 10 percent or more — got an airing from…
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