The Owatonna People's Press and Waseca County News are both reporting that Owatonna mayor to run for vacated Senate seat. Tom Kuntz joins fellow Republican Mike Parry and Independence Party candidate Waseca Mayor Roy Srp as announced candidates in the race.
Two years ago, Republican Chuck Bradford voluntarily dropped his bid for the Minnesota House 29A seat to support fellow Republican Rep. Randy Demmer.
Bradford has jumped into the race after Demmer announced he was running for the 1st Congressional District seat held [...]
"More women are drawn to softy fellows, which is prompting more men to get dolled up at hair salons, adorn themselves in the latest hip fashions and paint up their noggins with" [...]
December has proven to be a busy month for candidate announcements.
Republican Chuck Bradford is expected to announce Tuesday in Rochester that he will run for the House seat currently held by fellow Republican Rep. Randy Demmer of Hayfield.
Demmer is seeking the Republican endorsement for the 1st Congressional District seat [...]Rep. Rick Hansen, DFL-South St. Paul, along with 12 other lawmakers sent a letter to Gov. Tim Pawlenty and Attorney General Lori Swanson calling for action to stem the advance of Asian carp into the Great Lakes.
Two species of Asian carp, the bighead and silver Asian carp, have been advancing [...]
Unlike the image of the tormented artist whose vision is realized in solitude, Ricardo Levins Morales has made 35 years of work in a corner of his dining room but with a community context that reaches around the world. Now Morales, who co-founded the [...]
Patrick J. Michaels is a Distinguished Senior Fellow in the School of Public Policy at George Mason University. He is a past president of the American Association of State Climatologists and was program chair for the Committee on Applied Climatology of the American Meteorological Society. Michaels was also a [...]

So earlier tonight, news broke that the Senate may be close to ditching the public option, and predictably, many of my fellow progressives went berserk, declaring that the end was near and 2012 was really prophetic and the only option is to not vote in 2010, [...]
A former inmate at the Ramsey County Workhouse is suing the county and the workhouse medical staff for failing to treat his tuberculosis. After Marchello McCaster was eventually admitted to Regions Hospital and diagnosed with TB, Ramsey County health officials found dozens of fellow [...]
