How they voted: In northeast Iowa caucuses
DES MOINES, Iowa – Former President Donald Trump won the Iowa Republican caucus with [...]
How they voted: In northeast Iowa caucuses
DES MOINES, Iowa – Former President Donald Trump won the Iowa Republican caucus with [...]
Trumper wants to oust GOP House leader
MADISON, Wis. – A never-say-die backer of former President Donald Trump wants to run [...]
GOP misses deadline to fix jury-rigged election lines
MADISON, Wis. – The Wisconsin Supreme Court refused to reconsider its ruling that threw [...]
Pelowski’s CoVid-driven family decision to retire
WINONA, Minn. – Every election year about New Year’s Day, Gene Pelowski has had [...]
Ex-Minnesota House Speaker calling it quits
CROWN, Minn. – A leading Republican in the Minnesota House, Ken Daudt, is resigning [...]
House speaker on Pelowski: “A remarkable legacy”
ST. PAUL, Minn. – The career of Gene Pelowski in the Minnesota House – [...]
Winona DFL chair: Pelowski decision unexpected
WINONA, Minn. – The Democratic Party chair for Winona County, Jim Worthley, was surprised [...]
Judge: A law needed on Racine voting van
RACINE, Wis. – A Racine County judge ruled that mobile voting isn’t allowed by [...]
Pelowski on why not running: Seems to be: “It’s time”
WINONA, Minn. – In announcing he won’t seek a 20th term in the Legislature, [...]
Pelowski leaving Minnesota House after 39 years
WINONA, Minn. – Veteran legislator Gene Pelowski, who has represented Winona in the Minnesota [...]
Allow Trump to run? Supreme Court to decide
WASHNGITON – The U.S. Supreme Court agreed to review a ruling by a Colorado [...]
Maine gives Trump candidacy a new setback
PORTLAND, Maine – The secretary of state, Democrat Shenna Bellows removed former President Donald [...]
Premature though it is, Repinski gets GOP nod
WINONA, Minn. – A for-profit Republican fundraising operation known as WinRed has endorsed [...]
Murky GOP-linked mailer demonizes Pelowski
WINONA Minn. – A shadowy Republican front organization has flooded Winona mailboxes with slick [...]
Court: No more rigging Wisconsin election districts
MADISON, Wis. – The now liberal-conrolled Wisconsin Supreme Court threw out Republican-drawn legislative maps [...]
Colorado court to Trump: Not here you don’t
DENVER, Colo. -- The Colorado Supreme Court declared former President Donald Trump ineligible to [...]
How they voted: On Biden impeachment process
WASHINGTON – The U.S. House voted 221-212 to proceed with an impeachment inquiry whether [...]
Trump’s fake Wisconsin electors fess up
MADISON, Wis. – Ten Wisconsin Republicans who posed as fake electors for ex-President Donald [...]
Back to Bismarck: Burgum ends White House bid
BISMARCK, N.D. – Governor Doug Burgum gave up his dark-horse campaign for the Republican [...]
How they voted: On ousting Santos from House
WASHINGTON – The U.S. House voted 311-114 to remove an indicted member of the [...]
Candidates line up for Phillips’ MN-3 vacancy
MINNEAPOLIS – The MN-3 Congressional seat being vacated by presidential hopeful Dean Phillips already [...]
MN-3’s Phillips leaving Congress to tackle Biden
WAYZATA, Minn. –Three-term Congressman Dean Phillips announced that he will not seek re-election from [...]
City Councilman Borzyskowski drunk at the wheel
WINONA, Minn. – Veteran City Council member George Borzyskowski was arrested for drunken driving [...]
Investigative reporting: Doerr in touch? Not?
WINONA, Minn. – A candidate for Winona’s seat in the Minnesota House, Stephen Doerr, [...]
Judge reprimanded for barring felons from voting
ST. PAUL, Minn. – The Minnesota Court of Appeals affirmed the validity of a [...]
Trump on Minnesota ballot? Court hears case
ST. PAUL, Minn. – The Minnesota Supreme Court took a citizens’ case under advisement [...]
Phillips launches White House campaign
New Hampshire event. With his campaign bus as backdrop, Minnesotan Dean Phillips lays out [...]
Doerr’s qualifications for office look muzzy
WINONA Minn. – Legislative candidate Stephen Doerr inflated his credentials and apparently manufactured some [...]
Phillips aide: X a “public sewer” — but wants back
CONCORD, N.H. – The campaign manager for Dean Phillips’ presidential campaign was plainly angry [...]
Minnesota’s Phillips bumped off online site X: Why?
SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. – The powerful social media site X, formerly known as Twitter, [...]
No doubt now: Phillips running for White House
CONCORD , N.H. – Secretary of State David Scanlan confirmed that Congress member Dean [...]
How they voted: On House speakership /4
WASHINGTON – The U.S. House elected little-known Louisiana member to wield the gavel as [...]
It’s over: Minnesota’s Emmer tallies votes, not enough
WASHINGTON – Tom Emmer abandoned his campaign to become U.S. House speaker two hours [...]
Emmer to full House in speakership bid
WASHINGTON –The well-connected Minnesota Republican Tom Emmer emerged from a closed-door House Republican caucus [...]
Minnesota’s Emmer now goes for House speakership
WASHINGTON – The third highest-ranking member of the U.S. House, Tom Emmer, of Minnesota, [...]
How they voted: On House speakership /3
WASHINGTON – The US. House failed again to come up with the 217-vote majority [...]
Doerr again enters District 26-A House race
WINONA, Minn. – A long-distance trucker, Stephen Doerr, wants to go to St. Paul [...]
Could it be Minnesota’s Phillips v. Biden?
CONCORD, N.H. -- A Minnesota member of Congress, Dean Phillips, is looking to run [...]
GOP Congressional fund-raising: Van Orden leads
WASHINGTON – Trump enthusiast Derrick Van Orden, who represents western Wisconsin in Congress, led [...]
Pelowski still aboard for House re-election bid
WINONA, Minn. – The Winona representative in the State House, Gene Pelowski, confirmed again [...]
Repinski says House bid will be as a Republican
WINONA, Minn. – City Council member Aaron Repinsky, who has largely avoided partisan politics [...]
Repinski throws hat in ring for State Legislature
Captain Aaron. Revels in his role as as a tour boat captain. He [...]
Emmer on House GOP leadership vacuum: Not me
WASHINGTON – Minnesota Congress member Tom Emmer is not actively seeking the House speakership [...]
How they voted: On ousting House speaker
WASHINGTON – The U.S. House speaker, third in succession to the presidency, has been [...]
Potomac chatter: Minnesota’s Emmer for top House job?
WASHINGTON – Ultraconservative Tom Emmer of Minnesota is on some fellow Congress members' short [...]
Klobuchar in chorus for Menendez resignation
WASHINGTON – Senator Amy Klobuchar, a Minnesota Democrat, called for fellow Democrat Bob Menendez [...]
Van Orden’s verbal abuse of aides won’t go away
WASHINGTON – A Wisconsin member of Congress, Mark Pocan, renewed his call for fellow [...]
Wisconsin GOP votes to oust election chief
MADISON, Wis. -- Republicans who control the Wisconsin Senate, increasingly worried about losing elections, [...]
Finstad shows his deep red Trump colors
WASHINGTON -- First-term Congress member Brad Finstad has aligned himself with hard-right Republicans in [...]
Case to state Court: Keep Trump off 2024 ballot
ST.PAUL, Minn. -- A Minnesota group petitioned the state Supreme Court to block former [...]
Did Democrat legislators abuse their majority power?
ST. PAUL, Minn. -- Democrats took control of Minnesota government in the 2022 election, [...]
Simon: State won’t keep Trump off Minnesota ballot
ST. AUL, Minn. -- As pressure mounts to bar former President Donald Trump from [...]
Former LaCrosse County exec runs for Congress
LACROSSE, Wis. -- A well-connected LaCrosse Democrat, Tara Johnson, wants to unseat Derrick Van [...]
Three years prison for Minnesota teen sex procurer
MINNEAPOLIS -- A St. Paul woman was sentenced to three years in prison for [...]
Pfaff stays clear of WI-3 Congressional race
WEST SALEM, Wis. – State Senator Brad Pfaff announced he will seek another term [...]
Finstad on Quie: A credit to southern Minnesota
NEW ULM, Minn. – The southern Minnesota member of Congress, Brad Finstad, called his [...]
Harvard law student eyes WI-3 Congress seat
MADISON, Wis. – A Wisconsin native finishing law school at Harvard, Aaron Nytes, announced [...]
Lazzaro sex-trafficking accomplice to be sentenced
MINNEAPOLIS – A former St. Thomas college student who lined up teen-age girls for [...]
GOP golden boy Lazzaro: 20 years for teen consorting
MINNEAPOLIS – The wealthy playboy Tony Lazzaro whose largesse included leading Minnesota Republicans has [...]