"Despair about the nation’s politics is the authoritarian’s ally," Lori Sturdevant writes. "It depresses voter turnout. And low-turnout elections can put democracy into a tailspin."
"Walz needs this issue just now," Lori Sturdevant writes. "Politically, he needs to get out of the defensive crouch that the human services fraud revelations have put him in and stand up for a broadly unifying cause."
Welcome back into session, Minnesota Legislature. You are needed now. This year, you owe it to an afflicted people to be the best Minnesota asset you can be.
"There’s only so far toward compromise with the other party that a legislator who wants to avoid being primaried — or wants to run for higher office — can go," Lori Sturdevant writes.
The Minnesota Republican Party just endorsed candidates for state offices who in most cases haven’t previously held elected office, Lori Sturdevant writes.
"If memory has faded — or if you are a youngster who was not yet alive or politically sentient in 1990 — here’s a recap of the wildest governor’s race I witnessed in a half-century of covering Minnesota politics," Lori Sturdevant writes.
"Craig started the primary race with a familiarity deficit. She likely thought she could overcome it with an advertising blitz by her campaign and its Super PAC allies, much of it attacking Flanagan," Lori Sturdevant writes.
