Minneapolis Early Voting with Six Days Until Election

Minnesota Report Focus: Minneapolis With an eye on Minneapolis and its municipal elections, we thought a view of the early turnout numbers compared to 2017 worth visiting. In 2017, 105,928 voters cast ballots from the 259,060 registered voters, with 9,762 registering...

Political Philosophy and Societal Change

Minnesota Report Minnesota, as is the rest of the country, is experiencing a political upheaval. The sides are being drawn on mask mandates, vaccine efficacy and government response to the pandemic. As the debate rages, many people fail to see the forest through the...

Was Frey Defensive or Confident?

Minnesota Report Focus: Municipal Elections Friday’s Minneapolis Mayoral Debate on Almanac, was clearly more of a discussion, and a situation where the three other candidates in the race Sheila Nezhad (DFL-Minneapolis), Kate Knuth (DFL-Minneapolis), and AJ Awed...

Everyone Should Take a Picture of Their Ballot This Election

Minnesota Report Focus: Municipal Elections There is a different campaign effort underway in Bloomington and Minnetonka for the voters who cast ballots in their municipal elections to take a picture of the single vote they cast in the voting booth. This is intended...

Impact of the Referenda

Minnesota Report Focus: Municipal Elections Next week voters in both Twin Cities will decide on the person to run their city and whether or not to institute a Rent Control measure in their respective communities. In St Paul, Mayor Melvin Carter III has not taken a...

No Republicans Dare Call It Treason

Minnesota Report The insurrection at the US Capitol on January 6th was nothing short of Treason. Now, because we are a country of laws and not of men, we have a United States Constitution, which allows for innocence before guilt and a trial in a court of law rather...

Does Trump Suffer from Dunning-Kruger Effect?

National Report It is clear, Donald J Trump (R) is deluded but since he has appeared in movies and on television and event hosted a program, started a couple of casinos and bankrupted them, owned a football team in the USFL, and rose to the highest office in the land,...

Making Malcolm the Scapegoat

Minnesota Report Webster’s Dictionary has two definitions of Scapegoat. 2a: one that bears the blame for others b: one that is the object of irrational hostility Both oddly enough, seem to appropriately fit the threat looming from the Republican Majority Controlled...