BOSTON — Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley (D) is poised to become the Bay State’s first woman senator.
Ms. Coakley won the Democratic primary in the race to fill the US Senate seat of the late Edward Kennedy. Her victory Tuesday was by a wide margin - 19 points over her [...]
State Sen. Dick Day
Day's move puts focus on Legislature's weak lobbying rules
By Doug Grow | Wednesday, Dec. 9, 2009
State Sen. Dick Day's announcement that he's leaving his seat to become president of a non-profit called Racino Now underscores again [...]
My conversation with Michele Bachmann: 'I'm a lovable little fuzz ball!'
MinnPost photo by Raoul BenavidesMichele Bachmann: "I don't fear the left, and maybe that's part of the loathing that they feel toward me."
WASHINGTON, D.C. — President Obama today called for an increase in infrastructure funding, but it remains unclear exactly how his latest initiatives to accelerate job growth change the landscape on [...]
Ping-Pong and the health care bill
By Eric Black | Tuesday, Dec. 8, 2009
There is a way for a health care bill to pass soon, without having to pass through very many more 60-senator cloture votes, but it strikes me as highly unlikely [...]
Tom Conlon
Rare GOP office holder in St. Paul resigned to chase a dream, but now he's back to run for state auditor
By Joe Kimball | Tuesday, Dec. 8, 2009
Tom Conlon — who'd long been a rare politician in St. Paul, an' [...]
President Obama and congressional Democrats haven’t even announced their latest job creation plans, but already they’re stirring controversy with an idea on how to pay for it - by tapping the Treasury’s so-called TARP funds.
[...]WASHINGTON — Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan told President Obama Monday that the issue of Iran's nuclear program can be solved only through diplomacy - just as the Obama administration and other international powers are beginning to lose patience with Iran.
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Sarah Palin admirers brave the early hours and the cold to see their hero
MinnPost photo by Terry GydesenSarah Palin fans display their freshly autographed copies of "Going Rogue."
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Supreme Court takes up a today case examining the extent to which Congress can create an independent watchdog agency insulated from direct presidential control and political accountability.
[...]LA PAZ, BOLIVIA, and COCHRANE, CHILE — Bolivian President Evo Morales easily won his second five-year term Sunday night, solidifying the revolution he promises to bring to the country's long-oppressed indigenous majority.
[...]WASHINGTON, D.C. — The House voted Thursday to extend the current estate tax indefinitely, which would otherwise have expired at the end of the year. It makes this year’s rates permanent — 45 percent tax rate for estates over $3.5 million for individuals and $7 million for couples.
[...]WASHINGTON, D.C. — If President Obama is looking for something that transcends the national divisions over healthcare reform and Afghanistan policy, he might try isolationism.
[...]President Obama pledged that a jobs summit would be just the start of a push by his administration to bring down the nation’s 10 percent unemployment rate.
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Union screening: Was she or wasn't she? Candidate Maureen Reed and SEIU don't agree
By Doug Grow | Thursday, Dec. 3, 2009
Just what constitutes a formal "screening" takes on some importance in this intra-party struggle to see which candidate will challenge 6th District [...]
Scott TheisenFormer Senate Majority Leader Roger Moe
Better DFL-GOP communication seen as key to insuring state's poorest after GAMC
By Casey Selix | Thursday, Dec. 3, 2009
The Legislature will have to act quickly to ensure health care for recipients of General Assistance Medical [...]
What is President Obama's Afghanistan strategy and will it work? Four Minnesota experts on Afghanistan analyze those questions and offer predictions.
Related: The day after Obama's Afghan surge speech
[...]WASHINGTON — A year after a near collapse of the financial system and a historic $800 billion taxpayer bailout, Congress is reworking its terms of engagement with Wall Street.
[...]TEGUCIGALPA, HONDURAS — Honduras's Congress rejected the return of President Manuel Zelaya, polarizing residents in the country who disagree on whether the move ends - or prolongs indefinitely - the political crisis in the Honduran nation.
[...]JAKARTA, Indonesia — In several cities across West Papua, Indonesia's last frontier of separatist instability, hundreds of demonstrators raised the Morning Star independence flag Tuesday in protest of what they say is more than 40 years of colonial occupation by Indonesia.
[...]DFL efforts to unseat U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann likely will be delayed by an intra-party primary struggle between state Sen. Tarryl Clark and Dr. Maureen Reed. Reed [...]
Bills have been introduced in Congress to reinstate the subsidy through June 2010, but they're still in committee.
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