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    June 14, 2018
    The Supreme Court. Washington Post photo by Ricky Carioti
    Here’s a look at exchange in Supreme Court on Minn. voter clothing
    ST. PAUL -- In many ways, the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision Thursday to strike down a decades-old Minnesota voting law can be boiled down...
    news/crime-and-courtsJune 14, 2018 - 10:45pm
    May 23, 2018
    Todd Neumann
    Neumann announces for Kandiyohi County Sheriff
    WILLMAR - Kandiyohi County Sheriff’s Deputy Todd Neumann announced his candidacy for sheriff in Kandiyohi County on Wednesday. Neumann has...
    news/government-and-politicsMay 23, 2018 - 11:59am
    May 20, 2018
    File photo/ TribuneThose wanting to running for state, county or city elected office will need to file between May 22 and June 5. Election Day is Nov. 6 this year, with a primary date, if needed, scheduled for Aug. 14.
    Filing for elected office opens Tuesday
    WILLMAR — The 2018 election season reaches another milestone with the opening of the filing period for state, county and city offices in...
    news/government-and-politicsMay 20, 2018 - 10:31pm
    May 15, 2018
    President Donald Trump attends the National Peace Officers’ Memorial Service, outside the Capitol in Washington, May 15 2018. Trump was to participate later in the Senate Republicans' weekly policy luncheon. (Doug Mills/Copyright 2018 The New York Times)
    Trump wants to win Colorado and Minnesota in 2020. One is more likely than the other.
    Shortly before the 2016 presidential election, Donald Trump's communications adviser Jason Miller proclaimed that both Michigan and New Mexico...
    news/government-and-politicsMay 15, 2018 - 2:44pm
    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
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