Nancy LebensFormer Minneapolis Mayor R.T. Rybak left the hospital today, three days after he had a heart attack while cross country skiing. Since entering the hospital Saturday, doctors at Abbott Northwestern Hospital performed two angioplasty procedures and inserted six stents. A statement from a spokesman says Rybak will be recuperating for the next couple of weeks, Read more →
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Matt SepicAs he prepares to leave office tomorrow, Minneapolis Mayor R. T. Rybak, held one last news conference and offered a tribute to a lost friend. Rybak on Monday proposed a new pedestrian walkway that will connect downtown Minneapolis with Cedar Riverside, and said it will be named for Hussein Samatar, the first Somali-American in Minnesota Read more →
Robert Boos
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Betsy Hodges, a Democratic member of the Minneapolis City Council, has been elected as the mayor of Minnesota’s largest city. Hodges emerged as the winner Thursday night. She received the most votes of the 35 candidates but fell shy of an outright majority. Minneapolis uses ranked-choice voting, which lets people make up Read more →
Curtis Gilbert
This year’s election in Minneapolis was the first major test of ranked-choice voting in Minnesota and the first time it came into play in a hotly contested mayor’s race. So far, most of the reviews are good, even though Minneapolis still hasn’t finished counting the votes. Most voters took the time to pick up to Read more →
Minneapolis City Council Member Betsy Hodges declared victory in the race to succeed outgoing mayor R.T. Rybak. Wednesday night after several rivals called her to concede. City election officials are still counting ballots, because of the city’s ranked choice voting system. Even so, Hodges sounded like she was transitioning to the mayor’s office. “Thank you Read more →
Jon Collins
Minneapolis City Council Member Betsy Hodges won such strong support from voters today in her campaign for mayor that her closest opponent, former Hennepin County Commissioner Mark Andrew, all but conceded. Hodges is leading the race with 36 percent of voters’ first-choice ballots, according to unofficial results from the Minnesota Secretary of State’s website. That Read more →