Community dialogue on race relations with Mayor Hodges

Posted on Jan 6, 2014 in 2013 Mayor's Race | No Comments
Community dialogue on race relations with Mayor Hodges

As a part of the Mayor Hodges tour around Minneapolis for her first days in office today was a meeting with leaders in the community that are addressing the issue of racial disparity. Daniel Yang who was a part of organizing the event  tweeted that it was a full house on a very cold winter […]

Mayor Betsy Hodges sworn in

Posted on Jan 2, 2014 in 2013 Mayor's Race | No Comments
Mayor Betsy Hodges sworn in

Betsy asked RT to come to the stage and they did a selfie.  It’s a new generation administration.

Ranked Choice Voting

Posted on Nov 5, 2013 in 2013 Mayor's Race | No Comments
Ranked Choice Voting

Sometime tomorrow it will be official that Betsy Hodges will become the second woman elected Mayor of Minneapolis.  I’ll have more to say later along with more pictures after Minnpost runs their story, but my these are my two favorite pictures of the day. I was a bit nervous telling my photo editor that I […]

Post convention chatter

Posted on Jun 18, 2013 in 2013 Mayor's Race | No Comments
Post convention chatter

So much fighting among friends who happen to be supporting different candidates in the Mayor race.  I very much appreciate Javier Morillo’s piece on the back story of the excruciatingly long wait for the 3rd round of ballots. I sincerely hope respectful debate will be a part of the process going forward.  Choice is a […]

Minneapolis DFL Mayoral (NOT) Endorsing Convention 2013

Posted on Jun 17, 2013 in 2013 Mayor's Race | 2 Comments
Minneapolis DFL Mayoral (NOT) Endorsing Convention 2013

I had been saying for months that I doubted that there would be an endorsement for Mayor at this year’s convention since for the first time we will have Ranked Choice Voting in place for the general election.  Even so, I decided to become a delegate and I was truly undecided when I arrived.  My […]

The new Minneapolis DFL

Posted on May 4, 2013 in 2013 Mayor's Race | 4 Comments
The new Minneapolis DFL

It was a sea of red shirts supporting Jacob Frey for city council in the race in the 3rd ward against incumbent Diane Hofstede.  The first order of business was Diane Hofstede’s request to address the convention. Hofstede chastised the process of people not being represented.   “The process has become flawed,” she told the crowd. […]

The State of the City

Posted on Apr 11, 2013 in 2013 Mayor's Race | One Comment
The State of the City

RT Rybak reviewing his final State of the City speech in his twelfth and final year as Mayor of Minneapolis. Caucuses are next week and the race for Mayor will officially be underway.  The end of one era and the start of another.

The race for Mayor has started

Posted on Dec 14, 2012 in 2013 Mayor's Race | No Comments
The race for Mayor has started

It has started. Even though RT has not announced his intention, it seems likely we will be hearing that news soon since two people on city council  have announced their “exploratory” campaigns.   Once again, history could be made in Minneapolis.  If Gary Schiff is elected  he will be the first openly gay Mayor of […]

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