The Politics Behind a Confined Community

The recent Supreme Court ruling on the Evenwel v. Abbot, a Texas Redistricting case, in this case Abbot is the former Texas Attorney General now Governor Greg Abbot (R-TX) is the fact a normally divided court on an 8-0 decision knocked down a partisan by redistricting...

Super Tuesday 2016

The reason tonight is called Super Tuesday because the major political parties sought a vehicle for early consolidation of support for their respective candidates. Because the delegate selection is metered out over a course of months, the thought was to lump a number...

How MN National Delegates Are Selected

A week from today, interested persons will gather in churches, classrooms and community centers across the state of Minnesota for precinct caucuses to start the process for delegate selection which ultimately leads to national delegate selection. The determining...

Clinton’s Campaign is Playing It By the Numbers

In ideology politics between parties, a tactic found most successful is to co-opt the core issues of the opposing party and reconfigure them as your own. On the battlefield this could be seen as a flanking maneuver. This was an effective tactic, when political party...

What Do MN Senate Republicans and Donald Trump Have in Common?

The answer to the question of: What What Do MN Senate Republicans and Donald J Trump Have in  Common?, is well you tell a lie enough times it doesn’t become the truth. The bald-faced lie they continue to perpetuate is their intractability on moving from the...

Finally, A City Wise Enough to Reject Ranked Choice Voting

Our publisher Shawn Towle, was born in Duluth, and he was watching last night’s election results in the Zenith City will great interest. Mainly, because he hoped for Ranked Choice Voting to finally fail in a municipal election. Additionally, he was also watching...

The DNC Descends in the Mill City

There will be Democrats far and wide in Minneapolis this weekend for the Democratic National Committee Summer meeting. We will not be surprised if some wander over to the Great Minnesota Get-Together in St Paul. The candidates for the Democratic Presidential...

Hey Commissioner It’s Free Money

On July 1, 2015, the Minnesota State Supreme Court ruled on case Webb Golden Valley, LLC v. State which found on behalf of the State of Minnesota. The matter in dispute was over three parcels of land the State had obtained through eminent domain in the city of Golden...

Why Not Minnesota for the 2024 Summer Olympics?

When the news broke on Monday, that Boston Mayor Martin J. Walsh (D) ended his city’s bid with his unwillingness to sign a contract for a guarantee from the host community; we thought, why not Minnesota.  We already have many of the facilities necessary for use in...