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Elections 2009 Minneapolis

Minneapolis will use Ranked Choice Voting (RCV), aka Instant Runoff Voting (IRV), for the first time in November 2009, as the city votes for Mayor, City Council members, Minneapolis Parks and Recreation Board members, Board of Estimate and Taxation members, and whether to abolish the Board of Estimate and Taxation.

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Ranked Choice Voting in Minneapolis

By Art Hughes, KFAI

Because of Ranked Choice Voting, election night is only the beginning of a vote count that could take as long as two months to complete for some races.MORE »

Minneapolis council candidate forum airs Northeast’s gripes

By Chris Steller, Minnesota Independent

The Northeast corner of Minneapolis is brimming with resentments and possibilities, to hear candidates for an open city council seat there tell it. A week from Election Day, a crowd of 75 packed a room at Northeast Library for a Ward One candidate forum. They were treated to a smorgasbord of back-to-basics rhetoric, with a side of chips on the shoulder. MORE »

UPDATE | Dirty politics play out in Minneapolis Sixth Ward race

By Art Hughes, TC Daily Planet

UPDATE 11/20/09 Minneapolis police have launched a criminal investigation related to anonymous political literature distributed in the 6th Ward before the November 3rd election. The literature targeted incumbent City Councilmember Robert Lilligren.MORE »

Candidates, like city, slow to grasp instant-runoff voting

By Chris Steller, Minnesota Independent

After citizens approved instant-runoff voting (IRV) in November 2006, it took Minneapolis more than a year to start looking for machines that could count IRV ballots. Then officials rejected the machines they found. Now the city that once made the world's fastest supercomputers expects to employ 100 election judges for eight weeks to conduct a full hand-count of next month's city election. Judging by their campaigns, candidates for city office haven't cottoned much faster to the new system. MORE »

New Ranked Choice Voting allows voters to vote for first, second, third choice

By Steve Share, Minneapolis Labor Review

Minneapolis voters will find a new type of ballot at the polls on Election Day, Tuesday, November 3. The ballots allow voters to vote for their first choice, second choice and third choice for city offices. MORE »

November 3 election will decide races in Minneapolis, suburban school boards, and suburban school levies

By staff, Minneapolis Labor Review

Election Day 2009 lacks the drama of last year's presidential contest, but voters this year will be voting in important local races Tuesday, November 3.

The Minneapolis Regional Labor Federation, AFL-CIO has endorsed candidates for local office in Minneapolis, for Anoka-Hennepin School Board, and for the Monticello School Board.MORE »

Ward 5 City Council race: Candidates seek “change” for the North Side

By Anna Pratt, TC Daily Planet

A handful of years ago, Minneapolis Councilman Don Samuels had no intention of running for office. He worked from home designing toys, but neighbors pressed him, saying, "We're not getting any attention. The community is falling apart, with gunshots every night. This is crazy. Don't they care? Please go to City Hall and try to make a difference," he told the audience at the recent city council debate in North Minneapolis's Fifth Ward. MORE »

Minneapolis Regional Labor Federation votes to oppose Minneapolis Charter Amendment 168

By Steve Share, Minneapolis Labor Review

Delegates to the Minneapolis Regional Labor Federation, AFL-CIO voted October 14 to oppose the lone charter amendment voters will find on the Minneapolis ballot November 3. Charter Amendment 168 would change the composition of the city's 130-year old Board of Estimate and Taxation and threaten the independence of the Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board, opponents fear.MORE »

Nine run for Minneapolis Park Board with AFL-CIO support

By staff, Minneapolis Labor Review

Nine candidates are running for Minneapolis Park Board with the endorsement of the Minneapolis Regional Labor Federation, AFL-CIO.

Six of the candidates are running to represent the six district seats on the board.

Three of the AFL-CIO endorsed candidates are running city-wide for the three at-large seats on the board. They include:MORE »

John Quincy: ‘A city that works for everyone’

By Steve Share, Minneapolis Labor Review

The average resident of Ward 11, they just want stuff done," says John Quincy. "How can we grow jobs? How can we get jobs back into the city?"

Quincy is running as the AFL-CIO endorsed candidate for the Ward 11 City Council seat in south Minneapolis, an open seat due to the retirement of Scott Benson. Quincy also is DFL-endorsed.MORE »

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Finance takes center stage

By Lawrence Schumacher, TC Daily Planet

WIth the first deadline behind them, this week will see lawmakers turn more and more away from policy matters and toward financial items, specifically how to tackle the $1 billion deficit that remains for the current state budget cycle.MORE »

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THEATER | "Welcome to Dystopia": At Bedlam, Four Humors create a funny, touching vision of a seriously messed-up future

By Becca Mitchell, TC Daily Planet

Every once in a while, a piece of theater comes along where even as you're watching it you wish you could rewind or slow it down. Before it's even over, you know you want to see it again. This was my experience Friday night while watching Welcome to Dystopia at Bedlam Theatre, where it is being presented by Four Humors Theater. Written by Brant Miller and Matt Spring, the play tells the story of a future totalitarian city called Dystopia. Perhaps it was the sci-fi element; the combination of humor and social commentary; or the idea of seeing the equivalent of The Island, a favorite guilty-pleasure film of mine, on stage. Whatever it was, I found Welcome to Dystopia surprisingly absorbing and highly entertaining.MORE »

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