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Ellison's GOP challenger: "End of Times" coming

By Lawrence Schumacher, TC Daily Planet

In Minnesota's 5th Congressional District, Republicans this weekend chose a Pentecostal minister who has claimed in his sermons that the Biblical End of Times is coming soon, to run against U.S. Rep. Keith Ellison, D-Minn.MORE »

Is this pork?

By Lawrence Schumacher, TC Daily Planet

There's $45 million for the Central Corridor light rail project. And $300,000 for juvenile crime prevention on the north side of Minneapolis. And $200,000 for afterschool programs for Somali youth in the Cedar-Riverside neighborhood.

They are among the $300 million in congressional earmarks being sought by Minnesota's Democratic members of Congress in the House of Representatives.MORE »

Minneapolis Congressional hearings focus on foreclosure and housing crisis

By Sheila Regan
By Sheila Regan, TC Daily Planet

Congressmember Maxine Waters (D-CA), Chair of the House Financial Services Subcommittee on Housing and Community Opportunity joined Keith Ellison (D-MN) and Betty McCollum (D-MN) for a congressional hearing examining the foreclosure and affordable housing crisis in the Twin Cities on January 23 at Central Library in Minneapolis.MORE »

Darfur "genocide" raging five years on, GOP calls Ellison protest "unbecoming"

By Paul Schmelzer, Minnesota Independent
Getting arrested for civil disobedience is “unbecoming” the office of U.S. Representative, said outgoing Minnesota GOP chair Ron Carey of Rep. Keith Ellison, who along with four other House Democrats was hauled off during a protest at the Sudanese embassy in Washington, D.C., on Monday.MORE »

News Day: Ellison arrested / Fong Lee inside story / Mpls: From suspended principal to school closings / MN health cuts / more

By Mary Turck, News Day blog
In good company Rep. Keith Ellison was arrested Monday, along with civil rights icon and Georgia Rep. John Lewis, and others, as they protested at Sudan's embassy in DC. After indictment of President Omar al-Bashir by the International Criminal Court on charges of war crimes in Darfur, Bashir ordered foreign aid workers to leave the country.MORE »

Ellison’s office calls Smart Politics report “shameful”

By Andy Birkey, Minnesota Independent
The office of Rep. Keith Ellison says a Thursday report by the University of Minnesota’s Humphrey Institute missed the mark.MORE »

Capitol Catchall: Ellison makes historic Gaza trip as Bachmann gets fact-checked — again

By Paul Schmelzer, Minnesota Independent
Minnesota Democrat Rep. Keith Ellison and Rep. Brian Baird, D-Wash., are in Gaza getting a first-hand view of the destruction left after Israel’s military incursion into the area and visiting with United Nations officials.MORE »

Ellison defends bailout vote

By Paul Demko, Minnesota Independent
Monday’s House vote on the proposed $700 billion bailout package resulted in some strange political bedfellows. Perhaps most surprising was Rep. Keith Ellison — widely viewed as the most liberal member of the Minnesota delegation — aligned with staunch conservative Rep. John Kline in supporting the measure.MORE »
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