Minneapolis Mayor R.T. Rybak will kick off his gubernatorial campaign Sunday at Dinkytown’s Varsity Theater. Rybak announced the event via Facebook, but not all his 5,000-plus Facebook friends and supporters can come. His chosen venue has a…
The Twin Cities are the least-dangerous for pedestrians among America’s 52 biggest urban areas, a report released Monday says. (Duluth is safest among all Minnesota cities studied.) So that means watch your step…
Surveying voters outside of the city last May meant Minneapolis Mayor R.T. Rybak should have registered a gubernatorial campaign committee, the Minnesota Campaign Finance and Public Disclosure Board said in a ruling (pdf) announced today. The upshot:…
“As one of my good friends and supporters, I want you to know that today we filed the paperwork to create the R.T. Rybak for Governor Committee.” And so Minneapolis’ newly re-elected mayor at long last made his intentions clear…
Minneapolis’ first try at instant-runoff voting went well, judging by a low number of spoiled ballots. But the number of ballots cast was also low, spoiling the system’s otherwise successful debut.
They are called “pre-general” campaign-finance reports, but with the general election in Minneapolis only a day away, many candidates’ reports have yet to be filed, according to a website maintained by Hennepin County. In select races that could be close and have reports posted, the money race gives an indication of what the candidates had to work with in the closing days of their campaigns.
China may be ready to buy American pork again now, with fears subsiding about catching H1N1 flu from eating pigs, but hamburger has fallen from grace as a token of interstate tribute.
Minneapolis mayoral candidate Al Flowers heckled Mayor R.T. Rybak at length yesterday as Rybak delivered a speech at the groundbreaking ceremony for new KMOJ-FM studios in North Minneapolis.
U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann doesn’t say President Obama is “anti-American” anymore. Rather, he’s “non-pro-freedom,” she informed a national radio audience Wednesday. If that sounds goofy to the untrained ear, remember that Bachmann’s background is in
Gov. Pawlenty did Moose Lake’s captive sex offenders a favor by taking away their big TVs Tuesday before his 12-minute appearance on CNBC’s “The Kudlow Report.” They were spared captions dubbing him “‘President’ Pawlenty” and claiming…
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