In Minneapolis’ tenth ward, four candidates — including a well-funded DFL endorsee, a natural foods chef and an unaffiliated independent — are vying to win the seat that’ll be vacated by Ralph Remington, who’s stepping down. The ward, which encompasses much of Uptown, is among the city’s most densely populated.
When locals gather to choose delegates at DFL precinct caucuses Tuesday, three Minneapolis City Council candidates will be looking for the first signs of success from skills they picked up at a recent weekend at Camp Wellstone.
This zoom-able online panoramic photo of the presidential inauguration is a “Where’s Waldo” puzzle for fun-loving political junkies (with slight stalker tendencies). One Minnesotan could school those vain attendees who went sans chapeau: U.S. Rep. Jim Oberstar knows…
Minneapolis Mayor R.T. Rybak’s announcement Tuesday that he’ll run for re-election means there’ll be a two-man race for the DFL endorsement, at least according to the other man: Rybak rival Bob Miller. Miller’s prediction was borne out, for now anyway, by City Council Member Ralph Remington, who confirmed he won’t run for mayor now that Rybak’s in the race.
As one election season ends, another’s just begun: With the DFL convention only six months away, candidates in Minneapolis are positioning themselves to run for the city’s top leadership spot, but all eyes are on City Hall, where Mayor R.T. Rybak is pondering whether he’ll stay on or take a shot at the governor’s mansion in 2010.
Jubilant Democrats celebrated Barack Obama’s historic victory at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in downtown St. Paul last night. While the presidential victor’s coattails proved largely non-existent in Minnesota — with a pair of tightly contested House races falling to the GOP and the U.S. Senate race knotted in a virtual dead heat — few seemed concerned by the split verdict. The election of the first African American president in the country’s history was sufficient cause for jubilation.
I spoke with Minneapolis City Council member Ralph Remington this morning about his initial experience as a first-time delegate to the Democratic National Convention. Remington is a longtime Barack Obama supporter and was the first city council member to…
Thursday’s vanishing post on a Minneapolis City Council member’s blog highlights the hazards of online ruminations within a face-to-face City Hall culture that hasn’t yet adapted to the ways of the Web. On Tuesday, Council Member…
If elected officials hang around a public chamber with intent to take action but don’t actually decide anything, can they be guilty of governing?
Who “lurks” and with what intent…
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