Good afternoon,
State lawmakers are looking to replace James Nobles as he retires after 38 years as Minnesota's Legislative Auditor — the Legislature's watchdog for state agencies. Nobles received bipartisan praise and support for his work. [ Read more from Tim Pugmire]
Minneapolis' public safety ballot amendment will be back in court Monday morning. Critics want it tossed off the ballot. Any change would need to happen quickly, with early voting beginning next Friday. [Read more from The Associated Press]
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer is in no hurry to retire, despite pressure from progressives hoping to replace Breyer with a liberal pick while Democrats still control the Senate and presidency. [ Read more from NPR's Krishnadev Calamur and Nina Totenberg]
What you need to know about new COVID-19 vaccine mandates announced by President Joe Biden. [Read more from Catharine Richert]
Republican gubernatorial candidate Scott Jensen wants Minnesotans to exercise "civil disobedience" against government pressure to get COVID-19 vaccines. [ Read more from the Star Tribune's Stephen Montemayor]
Urban and rural Minnesotans are sharply divided on a host of important political issues, a new MinnPost poll finds. [Read more from MinnPost's Walker Orenstein]
California Gov. Gavin Newsom is in a strong position to beat back a recall attempt in next week's election, polls show. Surveys earlier this summer showed many California Democrats were disengaged from the election, but Newsom called in prominent Democrats as surrogates and seems to have reshaped the race from an up-or-down verdict on Newsom to a head-to-head contest with leading Republican candidate Larry Elder. [Read more from David Drucker in the Washington Examiner]
Something completely different: An engineer explains why the viral "milk crate challenge," in which people try (and almost always fail) to walk up and down a pile of milk crates is nearly impossible. [Watch]
Listen: My mind went this afternoon to the credits song from the 2005 "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" film adaptation. An odd choice, to be sure, except in context of this newsletter's final item. [ Watch "So Long and Thanks for All the Fish"]
Up next: This newsletter marks the end of my tenure as the primary writer of Capitol View. I took over back in March and have been writing it almost every weekday since then. It's been tremendous fun, but also tremendously exhausting, and I'm excited to step back a little bit and focus on some fun data projects in the weeks and months to come. Starting Monday, MPR's political editor Mike Mulcahy is going to be taking (or rather, re-taking) the reins here — though I've promised to regularly contribute. Follow me on Twitter @dhmontgomery for more regular updates, links and unprompted digressions about French history! — David | |
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