Politics & Policy

Liberalism in retreat: The conservatism of Barack Obama

By David Schultz, Schultz's Take

It may very well be that the legacy of Barack Obama is that he will destroy whatever is left of the liberalism of the Democratic Party. At least this is the conclusion one can reach given his recent budget proposals and his continued advocacy for the use of drone warfare. In so many ways, Obama looks even more conservative than his adversaries on the right.

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Schultz's Take

“New Jim Crow” discriminates against people with a criminal record

By Christina Cerruti, TC Daily Planet

by Christina Cerruti

Minneapolis resident Manu Lewis has spent the past four years working to turn his life around and give back to society despite his criminal record. “I do a lot of volunteer work.

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Once an ally, University of Minnesota-Morris student now works for her own freedom to marry

By Sally Jo Sorensen, Bluestem Prairie

Like many teenage girls, Naomi Wente once wrote out a list of the characteristics she sought in a spouse: intelligence, compassion, political involvement.

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Bluestem Prairie

COMMUNITY VOICES | An outdoors sportsman on gun control

By Jeff Strate, Community Voices

Doug Lind delivers another strong commentary on the lack of progress of gun regulation legislation in Minnesota when it has been accomplished in Connecticut and elsewhere.

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Like water to the river: Western Minnesota couple see the freedom to marry as part of state's ethos

By Sally Jo Sorensen, Bluestem Prairie

After a long day of rehabbing the rural Big Stone County farmhouse they've purchased together, Rebecca Terk and John G. White share stories and gumbo at the kitchen table in Terk's home in Clinton. The couple, who will marry this summer, also share a core belief in the freedom to marry.

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Bluestem Prairie

Minneapolis Mayor Rybak looks forward in final State of the City address

By Brian Arola, The Minnesota Daily

Minneapolis Mayor R.T. Rybak gives his final State of the City address. Rybak's speech looked to the future, envisioning Minneapolis as a larger, more diverse city packed with transit and green space by 2025. (Photo by Amanda Snyder)

In what was his last State of the City address, Minneapolis Mayor R.T. Rybak looked to the future rather than reflecting on the past.

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Multiparty coalition backing Minnesota same-sex marriage

By Michael McIntee, The Uptake

With less than six weeks left in Minnesota's legislative session, supporters of same-sex marriage are forming a coalition to make such marriages legal in the state. On Wednesday, Ken Martin, the chair of Minnesota's Democratic Farmer Labor Party, joined Independence Party Executive Committee member Matt Lewis, Former Green Party Chair Cam Gordon and Libertarian Party Chair Bob Odden to call on lawmakers to bring the issue to a vote in the House and the Senate.

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Family foster care in danger in Minnesota

By Eric Pusey, Minnesota Progressive Project

Family foster care may be legislated out of existence in Minnesota. Thousands of mental ill and/or handicapped people would have to find other arrangements. This issue hits very close to home.

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Minnesota Progressive Project

Representative proposes state recognition of civil unions

By Lee Ann Schutz Wahi, Session Weekly/Session Daily

Rep. Tim Kelly, (pictured at far right) speaking with members of the media (Photo by Paul Battaglia)

Calling the current bill to allow for same gender marriages divisive, Rep. Tim Kelly (R-Red Wing) will be introducing a bill Thursday that would allow civil unions to be treated in state statute the same as marriage.

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Minnesota for Marriage affiliate drags in Hitler references

By Staff, American Jewish World

Representatives from Shir Tikvah Congregation, the Jewish Community Relations Council of Minnesota and the Dakotas (JCRC), Jewish Community Action (JCA), the Minneapolis Jewish Federation, Temple of Aaron, and Plymouth Congregational Church, among others, publicly condemned the use of Nazi references by Minnesotans for Marriage in its efforts to oppose same-sex marriage.

Last Friday, March 29, representatives from Shir Tikvah Congregation, the Jewish Community Relations Council of Minnesota and the Dakotas (JCRC), Jewish Community Action (JCA), the Minneapolis Jewish Federation, Temple of Aaron, and Plymouth Congregational Church, among others, hosted a press conference to condemn the use of Nazi references in Minnesota for Marriage’s efforts to oppose same-sex marriage.

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