MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Democratic Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison defeated Republican newcomer Jim Schultz in Tuesday’s election to win a second term in a race that turned largely on crime and abortion.
Jury selection for Derek Chauvin’s trial in Minneapolis has been paused for at least a day and DFL party Rep. Ryan Winkler presented the adult-use cannabis bill to the Minnesota House of Representatives. Ad/PR Representative Paige Peplinski has today’s News in :90.
Minnesota Democratic–Farmer–Labor (DFL) party Rep. Ryan Winkler presented the adult-use cannabis bill to the Minnesota House of Representatives that would legalize recreational marijuana, and on Feb. 23, the bill passed through its second round of House committee meetings. Scout Mason and Lauren Dettmer have the story.
In the U.S. House race Tuesday, Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar was reelected for Minnesota’s 5th Congressional District, Democratic Rep. Betty McCollum was reelected for the 4th District; incumbent Democratic Sen. Tina Smith was reelected to the U.S. Senate.
Minnesota will host its first presidential primary on Tuesday, March 3 and St. Thomas students won five awards for advertisements and campaigns at the Advertising Federation of Minnesota’s “The Show” ceremony Friday. Designer Maggie Stout has today’s News in :90.
After 25 years of teaching justice and peace studies at St. Thomas, professor Jack Nelson-Pallmeyer will retire at the end of the school year. Nelson-Pallmeyer, a political activist and academic writer, focused his work on issues like hunger, poverty and faith.
College students — many for the first time — represented at the DFL and GOP victory parties on election night.
An evening of high hopes at the Democratic-Farmer-Labor election party turned to uncertainty as Hillary Clinton slipped behind Donald Trump in electoral votes.
Four St. Thomas students volunteered at the precinct caucuses to become delegates for the Senate district 64 DFL convention on April 3.
Hundreds of thousands of Minnesotans flocked to the caucuses Tuesday night, giving Sen. Bernie Sanders more than 60 percent of the Minnesota vote in the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party caucus.
Sen. Al Franken defeated his Republican opponent Mike McFadden, and Gov. Mark Dayton beat Republican Jeff Johnson in a five-candidate race.
The 2014 midterm elections prompted St. Thomas students to vote at one of two local polling locations Tuesday.
