We're hearing the phrase "violent protests" a lot lately. Yet the protests over the Minneapolis police murder of George Floyd two weeks ago are different. For the first time in recent memory, the press is concentrating more...
The 2020 presidential election is fast approaching, and Donald Trump can probably count on at least some of the 46 percent who approve of him voting for him. But as the coronavirus and the COVID-19 disease...
Donald Trump's vulgarity and divisiveness at a recent rally in Minneapolis, Minn. garnered extensive media coverage. Yet another aspect of Trump's first rally since House Democrats opened an impeachment inquiry getting little coverage is how Minneapolis...
As if the scene in Washington isn't crazy enough these days, former Minnesota Republican Congresswoman Michele Bachmann is now indicating that she may be interested in running for the Senate seat recently vacated by Democrat...
For all out there feeling a little demoralized about the class warfare congressional Republicans and President Donald Trump's administration are waging against us, results from Tuesday's elections should lift your spirits. Let's start in Virginia where...
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  It has been a hell of a year. Charlottesville was a disgraceful display of white supremacy and it has stirred up horrible division within the United States. The whole debacle revolved around a group of...
When talk of climate change and rising temperatures first came to light, some people argued that it was just a natural fluctuation in global temperatures. As time went on, scientists began to gather more evidence of...
Abigail Whelan with her parents on the state house floor (image courtesy Whelan's Facebook)
Like most left-leaning evangelical Christians, I believe that Christians in public office should be setting the standard, not trying to do an end run around it. Sadly, a state representative in Minnesota is the latest...
Those who fervently support Donald Trump are not your usual political backers. They tend to be fanatical, fond of conspiracy theories, and fearful that the end is near. A pro-Trump rally in Wilmar, Minnesota, which attracted about...
Rep. Keith Ellison (D-Minn.) has the distinction of being both the first Muslim elected to Congress and the first African-American elected to the Minnesota House of Representatives. He has served as a representative since 2007...
Tracy Claeys at his first press conference as Minnesota's head coach in 2015 (image courtesy Tim Nelson, Minnesota Public Radio)
The 2016 college football season began with a textbook case on how not to handle sexual assault at a major university. You may recall that Baylor was all but forced to fire head coach Art...
Tracy Claeys at his first press conference as Minnesota's head coach in 2015 (image courtesy Tim Nelson, Minnesota Public Radio)
The 2016 college football bowl season was almost tainted by a travesty at the Holiday Bowl. Two weeks ago, Minnesota's football players threatened to sit out their bowl matchup against Washington State when ten of...
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We may be in the year 2016, but sometimes it doesn't feel that way. With all the racism and hate crimes going on, it feels like we went back in time this year. We need slivers...
A wooden placard with the message "The KKK Wants You' was found in a classroom at Irondale High School, a suburban school just north of Minneapolis, Minnesota. School officials said the placard, which was approximately the...
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Just hours after President-elect Donald Trump won the 2016 presidential race, students at Maple Grove High School in Maple Grove, Minnesota returned to class to find racist messages scrawled throughout the school. Messages that appear...
Republican Presidential Nominee Donald Trump pandered to a large Minnesota crowd on Sunday. He vowed to stop the Syrian Refugee Program: "Here in Minnesota you have seen firsthand the problems caused with faulty refugee vetting, with...
Earlier this year, the internet was buzzing with news of North Carolina's ridiculous HB-2 law. It requires transgendered people to use the bathroom the corresponds to the gender they were assigned at birth, not the...
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A man donned a private security uniform and stabbed nine people at a Minnesota shopping mall, with him apparently asking one of the victims if they were Muslim before an off-duty police officer shot and...
Donald Trump may be running the least organized presidential campaign in modern history. The Republican nominee for president almost failed to qualify for ballot access in Minnesota. Records show Trump officially filed as a candidate there today, days...
The town of Cormorant, Minnesota has elected a dog to be its mayor for the third time. A nine-year-old Great Pyrenees named Duke is their mayor. Resident Karen Nelson said: "I don't know who would run against him...