Curtis GilbertThe average Minneapolis homeowner will save about $3 on next year’s property tax bill, thanks to some modest budget cuts approved Monday by the Minneapolis City Council. Opponents mockingly call it the “latte levy.” Read more →
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Spencer Cronk, who has led the State Department of Administration since 2011, got the nod Tuesday as Mayor Betsy Hodges’ nominee for city coordinator. The coordinator oversees the city’s finance, human resources, information technology and communications departments. Also under the coordinator are such disparate services as animal control, emergency management and lobbying. The Department of Read more →
Does running for mayor of Minneapolis and coming in fourth place qualify you for a Wikipedia page? At least one person thinks Cam Winton isn’t “notable” enough. Read more →
When Minneapolis Mayor Betsy Hodges began sharing 140 characters of inspiration every morning, she probably didn’t realize how much she was revealing. The mayor starts each day by tweeting a brief quotation from the likes of Carl Sagan, Colin Powell and Nora Ephron to her 8,462 followers on Twitter. Local statistician Tom Q. Johnson saw Read more →
Corporations, law firms and other interest groups are bankrolling today’s inaugural celebration for St. Paul Mayor Chris Coleman. In all, they contributed nearly $25,000 to the mayor’s inauguration fund. While businesses aren’t allowed to give money to candidates’ campaigns in Minnesota, there’s nothing stopping them from supporting inaugurals. Such funds aren’t subject to contribution limits Read more →
Making the Minneapolis ballot simpler turns out to be more complicated than it looks. In spite of a growing consensus that it’s too easy for candidates to run for office in the state’s largest city, a proposal to raise the $20 filing fee appears dead for this year. The city’s Charter Commission proposed raising the Read more →
A close aide to Minneapolis Mayor R.T. Rybak will serve as chief-of-staff to incoming mayor Betsy Hodges.
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Data released today by the Minneapolis Elections Department show voters who supported Mayor-elect Betsy Hodges were far more likely to have selected a second-choice candidate than those who supported runner-up Mark Andrew. Read more →
Jon CollinsThree full days after voters cast their ballots in the Minneapolis municipal elections, the results are in. Election workers finished tabulating the ranked-choice voting totals in seven remaining races on Friday evening. Read more →
Minneapolis Mayor-elect Betsy Hodges on Friday said asking voters across the city for their first or second votes in the city’s ranked-choice voting system helped her win the election. Read more →