After union members overwhelmingly rejected a contract proposed by American Crystal Sugar Company this weekend, management made good on its threats to lock out 1,300 workers in three states.
After sometimes angry and emotional debate Monday, the Moorhead City Council defeated an ordinance that would’ve created a domestic partner registry. Some at the council meeting said the registry of same-sex couples would reflect Moorhead’s inclusive values, while others warned it could lead to the breakdown of traditional marriage. “I don’t like queer relationships,” one man said. “Do you want the city of Moorhead to be known as a queer community?”
Rep. Michele Bachmann will be campaigning in Duluth and Moorhead on Saturday at two “Win Back Washington” rallies. In Duluth, Bachmann will be campaigning for Chip Cravaak, who is seeking the Republican party endorsement to…
Gov. Tim Pawlenty wants to cut nearly $200 million from the Local Government Aid program as part of his plan to eliminate the state’s $2.7 billion budget deficit. While…
President Obama devoted his weekly address today to the communities of Minnesota and the Dakotas that are fighting record floods this weekend. He didn’t mention Hurricane Katrina.
More, including a full transcript, after the jump.
Janet Napolitano, secretary of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), insists the federal government is ready to provide whatever assistance is needed to the flood-ravaged Red River Valley. “We understand…
After declaring a state of emergency there on Friday, Gov. Tim Pawlenty headed to Moorhead today for an early-afternoon briefing with local officials about the looming flood in western Minnesota. Pawlenty and local officials will meet with media…
Sunday’s New York Times Magazine carried a quizzical interview by Deborah Solomon with President George W. Bush’s former senior adviser, Karl Rove. Across 21 questions, Rove and Solomon covered a lot of political and even emotional territory, with an often-combative…
If Al Franken ultimately loses the U.S. Senate race to Norm Coleman by roughly 700 votes, as the tally now stands, he might find himself lamenting that there wasn’t time for just one last trip to Moorhead before the campaign came to a close. Why might the Democrat have found useful a last-ditch effort to supplicate and beg before the residents of the Red River Valley?
During my tour of northern Minnesota with Todd Palin last week, I spoke with Robert Leiseth at a rally in Moorhead. Plastered with “Sportsmen for McCain” stickers, he discussed his fears that Obama “is steering us into socialism,” his praise for Sarah Palin and his concerns about Joe Biden’s experience. But his most pointed words were about Obama’s ethnicity. Leiseth believes Obama is “an Arab who is a little tiny bit African American.”
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