It took the Minnesota Legislature much longer to elect women to the top two positions. Rep. Dee Long, a Democrat, became the ...

The keys to City Hall are up for grabs on Nov. 4, when all 13 City Council seats and the mayor’s office are up for election.

What is the most pressing issue for the University and how do you plan to deal with it? I think the biggest thing for the University is the budget. I agree with President Kaler’s, his strategy of ...

The Minnesota Senate has unanimously passed a resolution to rename the 10th Avenue Bridge in Minneapolis as the Minnesota Senate Majority Leader Kari Dziedzic Memorial Bridge. This honor ...

Kari Dziedzic, the former DFL leader who died late last year after a battle with cancer. The amendment was tacked onto a transportation funding package and would name the 10th Avenue bridge in ...

Kari Dziedzic. As the legislative session continues, Johnson said Republicans are shifting focus to the state budget. "We did not want this to cloud up the issues of the budget going forward and ...

Minnesota Republicans are playing House. Since declaring themselves in charge of a branch of government they didn’t actually win, the 67 Republican state representatives have rattled around St. Paul, ...

DFL Sen. Doron Clark fills the seat left vacant by the death of Kari Dziedzic, the Democrats' former leader, who died in late December after a battle with cancer. He now represents Senate District ...

the Senate operated under a “power-sharing” agreement because Democrats and Republicans were tied 33-33 after the death of DFL Senator Kari Dziedzic. That’s all going to change next week ...

Kari Dziedzic, who died from ovarian cancer at age 62 in December. Dziedzic held the Senate District 60 seat since 2012. (Note, in Minnesota, the Democratic Party is known as the Democratic-Farmer ...

The vacancy was prompted after former Minnesota Senate Majority Leader Kari Dziedzic (DFL) died of cancer last month, bringing partisan control of the state Senate to a 33-33 tie. The Minnesota ...

The special election was called following the death of Democratic Sen. Kari Dziedzic in December. The Minnesota GOP and DFL have been tied since in the Senate, 33-33. Clark won Tuesday's contest ...