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    April 14, 2018
    Craig gets rematch against Lewis in 2nd District
    BURNSVILLE, Minn. — After narrowly losing her first bid for Congress in 2016, Democrat Angie Craig is getting a second crack at defeating first-term Republican Rep. Jason Lewis this fall. Craig, a former medical device company executive from Eagan, easily won the Democratic-Farmer-Labor...
    newsApril 14, 2018 - 7:10pm
    April 9, 2018
    Michelle Rook / Special to Forum News Service
    Farmers who propelled Trump to presidency fear becoming pawns in trade war
    MANKATO, Minn. - Many of the farmers who helped propel Donald Trump to the presidency fear becoming pawns in his escalating trade war with China,...
    news/government-and-politicsApril 9, 2018 - 7:12am
    March 19, 2018
    Christopher Wylie, who helped found the data firm Cambridge Analytica and worked there until 2014, in London, March 12, 2018. Cambridge Analytica harvested personal information from a huge swath of the electorate to develop techniques that were later used in the Trump campaign. “Rules don’t matter for them,” Wylie said of the company’s leaders. “For them, this is a war, and it’s all fair.” (Andrew Testa/Copyright 2018 The New York Times)
    Cambridge Analytica CEO appears to talk about election bribes, sex workers on video
    A British television station broadcast video Monday apparently showing the head of the data analysis firm Cambridge Analytica, which worked for...
    news/government-and-politicsMarch 19, 2018 - 8:16pm
    March 14, 2018
    Townships set budgets, elect officers
    WILLMAR — Townships in Minnesota conducted annual meetings and election of officers Tuesday. The following townships in Kandiyohi County...
    news/government-and-politicsMarch 14, 2018 - 9:55pm
    March 13, 2018
    An Alabama voter exits the James W. Grant Recreation Center polling station in Dothan, Ala. (Bob Miller/Copyright 2018 The New York Times)
    Studies suggest Clinton may not be wrong on white women voting like their husbands
    According to Hillary Clinton, many white women voted against her because the men in their lives told them to. During a discussion at the India...
    news/government-and-politicsMarch 13, 2018 - 10:58am
    March 12, 2018
    President Donald Trump walks toward Marine One from the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Feb. 16, 2018. On Friday, Robert Mueller, the special counsel, indicted 13 Russian nationals and described a vast, sophisticated Russian operation to interfere in the election, delivering to Trump the kind of evidence that the president has long sought to dismiss as political attacks from his rivals. (Tom Brenner/The New York Times Copyright 2018)
    Republicans find no evidence of collusion or Russian preference for Trump
    WASHINGTON - House Intelligence Committee Republicans have completed a draft report in their year-long Russia probe that states they found no...
    news/government-and-politicsMarch 12, 2018 - 8:16pm
    February 19, 2018
    Commentary: Trump is ignoring the worst attack on America since 9/11
    Imagine if, after 9/11, the president had said that the World Trade Center and Pentagon could have been attacked by "China" or "lots of other people." Imagine if he had dismissed claims of al-Qaida's responsibility as a "hoax" and said that he "really" believed Osama bin Laden's denials....
    opinion/columnsFebruary 19, 2018 - 9:57am
    February 13, 2018
    Tom Cherveny / Tribune Voters in Chippewa County voted in a special referendum to decide whether to make the positions of auditor/treasurer and recorder appointed rather than elected.
    Chippewa County voters narrowly approve appointed posts
    MONTEVIDEO — Chippewa County voters approved making the county auditor/treasurer and recorder positions appointed rather than elected,...
    news/government-and-politicsFebruary 13, 2018 - 8:49pm
    February 11, 2018
    Rick Nolan
    Nolan reflects on retirement, look forward to family time
    DULUTH, Minn.—The airplane carrying Rick Nolan home from Washington, D.C., on Friday reached Minnesota in the middle of the afternoon....
    newsFebruary 11, 2018 - 7:31am
    February 9, 2018
    U.S. Rep. Rick Nolan announced Friday morning that he is retiring at the end of his fourth term. In this file photo from May of 2014, Nolan gives remarks about the death of former U.S. Rep. Jim Oberstar at his Duluth office. Clint Austin / Forum News Service
    U.S. Rep. Rick Nolan to retire from Congress, leaving a legacy of coalition building in fractured district
    DULUTH—"Rabble rouser." "Dedicated public servant." "Thank you." The tributes came pouring in Friday morning, Feb. 9, as U.S. Rep. Rick...
    news/government-and-politicsFebruary 9, 2018 - 7:02pm
    February 6, 2018
    This precinct caucus in East Grand Forks, Minn., attracted far fewer Democrats than two years ago, when records were set statewide. Sam Easter / Forum News Service
    Johnson, Walz win governor caucus polls, but is Pawlenty running?
    ST. PAUL -- Second-time Minnesota governor candidate Jeff Johnson easily won a Tuesday, Feb. 6 straw poll, but could face a bigger obstacle...
    newsFebruary 6, 2018 - 10:40pm
    Tim Pawlenty talks to a 2011 Ottumwa, Iowa, campaign stop. He was running for president; in 2017, there is talk abot him running for the U.S. Senate. Don Davis / Forum News Service
    Pawlenty quits lobbying job. Will he run for governor?
    ST. PAUL—Former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty stole the spotlight from Republican candidates in the governor's race Tuesday, Feb. 6, hours before...
    news/government-and-politicsFebruary 6, 2018 - 11:53am
    February 5, 2018
    Holocaust denier running for Congress has no opponents in Illinois Republican primary
    Like most candidates running for Congress, Arthur Jones has a campaign website. It outlines the Republican candidate's education background, his stance on issues and how to donate to his campaign to represent the Illinois' Third Congressional District. It also lays out Jones' unapologetically...
    news/government-and-politicsFebruary 5, 2018 - 10:26am
    February 1, 2018
    Anita Sandborgh distributes ballots in a crowded Republican precinct room in Cottage Grove at the 2016 Minnesota precinct caucuses. In the Tuesday, Feb. 6, 2018, caucuses, those attending will cast straw poll ballots for governor. Scott Wente / Forum News Service
    Next week, Minnesota's caucuses expected to be more manageable than 2016
    ST. PAUL—Minnesota precinct caucus leaders ran out of ballots as long lines of people waited to get into the political meetings, with drivers...
    news/government-and-politicsFebruary 1, 2018 - 1:05pm
    January 30, 2018
    Rep. Jerrold Nadler, D-N.Y., walks with staff and fellow House members back to his office after votes on Capitol Hill on Jan. 17. Washington Post photo by Melina Mara
    Ahead of State of the Union, Democrats are united against Trump but not on impeachment
    NEW YORK - As President Donald Trump prepares his first State of the Union address on Tuesday, Democrats are asking whether he's engaged in obstruction...
    news/government-and-politicsJanuary 30, 2018 - 7:29am
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