Independence News

Today we celebrate Thanksgiving. Some of us still honor the Pilgrims and their struggles for freedom of religion, while others accept that Plymouth Rock and the Pilgrims are an American myth.

At its state convention on Saturday in Brooklyn Park, the Independence Party of Minnesota changed its rules to end an experiment with cross-endorsement. The vote was an overwhelming 80-20 to grant IP endorsement only to candidates who are exclusively committed to running as IPers, the party's State Chair Jack Uldrich told me yesterday.

Third District Congressman Erik Paulsen, R-Eden Prairie, and First District Congressman Tim Walz, DFL-Mankato, appeared at a Capitol today , joined by state lawmakers, business and labor leaders, to push for the repeal of the moratorium.

Independence Party of Minnesota delegates at its recent state convention in Brooklyn Park voted to throw out the recent practice of candidate cross-endorsement. That is, the IP will no longer endorse candidates that do not belong to the party - recent 6th District DFL congressional candidate El Tinklenberg was quick to mention that he carried both ...

Gov. Tim Pawlenty's Republican Party was the biggest user of a campaign program he axed that gives donors tax refunds for part of their contributions.

ST. PAUL, Minn. - Gov. Tim Pawlenty's Republican Party was the biggest user of a campaign program he axed that gives donors tax refunds for part of their contributions.

WEEK OF OCT. 12 Drunken driving . Someone reported a vehicle in a ditch on Engler Boulevard near Hwy.

Monica Say of Monticello was stopped with her boys ages 2 and 4 in the back seat and a .21 blood-alcohol level, police say.

Monica Mary Margaret Say A woman had her two children in the car, ages 2 and 4, and an open bottle of rum in a diaper bag when she led police on a chase last week in western Hennepin County, police said today.

With an uncapped bottle of rum in the diaper bag and her two little ones in the car with her, a drunken driver led police on a 4-mile-plus chase through traffic in western Hennepin County before she pulled over and was arrested, authorities said this afternoon.

Republican representative Jim Ramstad easily won re-election to the U.S. Congress in Minnesota 3rd District.

Will Minnesota's 2010 race for governor be the next referendum on gay marriage? That's an oversimplification, because there will be many very clear issue differences in that race, especially in the general election.

While a large pack of Democratic and Republican gubernatorial candidates has roamed across Minnesota for months clamoring for attention, the state's third and smallest "major party," the Independence Party, has yet to field a single credible contender.

Minnesota bridges rated: An interactive map of bridges that are "structurally deficient," "functionally obsolete" or have gusset plates like those on the I-35W bridge.

Casella is on sabbatical in Northern Ireland studying films from the silent era and attending various film festivals.

The Democrats trying to win their party's endorsement to run against Republican U.S. Rep.

Ethonel another goverment boondoogle forced down out throats Lowers mileage, lower performance, highly corrosive, raises food prices , read more puts more land into production that was not farmed in the past, Raises price of fuel overall What a wondrful deal and I am forced to pay higher taxes for this great benefit Minnesota business by the ...

Fomer Independence Party candidate Tim Penny concedes the gubernatorial race at the Mall of America in 2002.

Even here in the Capital City, publication of the new edition of Minnesota's "Blue Book" doesn't exactly rank up there with the latest from, say, John Grisham or Patricia Cornwell or John Sanford.

Plymouth, Cottage Grove, Ramsey and Rosemount are in the vanguard of municipal frugality in a down economy.