Good evening! There will be plenty of kvetching about today’s U.S. Supreme Court decision striking down Minnesota’s law against wearing politically affiliated clothing at the polling place. But Bob Collins asks a simple question today on the NewsCut blog. "When's the last time a T-shirt, a bumper sticker, or a lawn sign influenced your vote?" | Forecast | Updraft
Their ancestors were on opposite sides of one of the most shameful moments in Minnesota history 98 years ago this week. It would be understandable for anger to prevent them from getting along. But here they were: Descendants of a lynching walking together through the National Memorial for Peace and Justice during its opening weekend in April, hundreds of miles from their homes.
The Supreme Court on Thursday struck down Minnesota's broad restrictions on voters wearing "political" hats, T-shirts and pins to the polls, but said states can place limits on such apparel.
St. John's University in Collegeville, Minn., is being sued by one of its own graduates who wants his donation back. Roger Lindmark, a 1974 grad, gave $300,000 to St. John's with settlement money he won from lawsuits against big corporations.
The Justice Department's watchdog faults former FBI Director James Comey for breaking with protocol in his handling of the Hillary Clinton email investigation, but it says his decisions were not driven by political bias ahead of the 2016 election, according to two people familiar with the findings.
The little-discussed Lavender Scare, when the federal government purged thousands of employees because they were gay, is at the center of the Minnesota Opera's latest production, "Fellow Travelers." It tells the story through the eyes of two men who meet and fall in love in Washington, D.C. during the McCarthy era.
If you've ever wanted to get up close and personal with a bison — safely — here's your chance. Starting Friday, you can reserve spots online for a Department of Natural Resources guided 90-minute driving tour of about 100 bison and the prairie they live on at Blue Mounds State Park in southwestern Minnesota.
Amid an unceasing series of revelations about alleged ethical misconduct, Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt is rapidly losing support with influential Republican lawmakers and conservatives who, until now, have strongly backed Pruitt and the pro-fossil fuel deregulatory agenda he's implemented.
House Speaker Paul Ryan said Congress needs to pass legislation to stop the practice of separating children from their parents at the southwest border, a "zero tolerance" policy put in place by the Trump Administration, which cites a court decision.
