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Brian Arola

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Sep 29, 2026
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  1. Article · Sep 29, 2026 · Brian Arola

    The walkover districts: Uncontested Minnesota Legislative races tilt strongly in DFL's favor (opens the original)

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    We’re calling it now: DFL candidates will handily win 17 state House and four Senate seats in this fall’s election. It didn’t take a fancy forecasting system to make this prediction. No, that’s the number of Minnesota legislative races with no Republican candidate, making them so-called walkover wins for the DFL candidates. No major party has had so few candidates running in a House and Senate election year since at least the 1990s, according to a MinnPost review of state voting data. In contras

  2. Article · Sep 24, 2026 · Brian Arola

    Is rural Minnesota more conservative than rural Iowa and Wisconsin? (opens the original)

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    MinnPost is partnering with Gigafact to produce fact briefs — bite-sized fact checks of trending claims. You can submit claims you think need checking here. Sign up for our newsletter for more stories straight to your inbox. Rural Minnesota counties were redder than Iowa and Wisconsin’s rural counties in the 2024 presidential election. Definitions of rural vary depending on the source, but a federal classification of metro and nonmetro counties allows for clear comparisons. In Minnesota, metro c

  3. Article · Sep 21, 2026 · Brian Arola

    Cows, colleges and competitive districts: DFL, GOP eye key House seats covering Northfield and St. Peter (opens the original)

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    An unexpected visitor stopped by Rep. Kristi Pursell’s campaign event in August: her challenger in the state House District 58A race. It was an open house, after all, and Steve Cherney came to say hello. This happened outside a Lonsdale barbecue joint called Smoke, but nothing about their brief chat was heated. Cherney, a Republican, said he vowed not to besmirch the DFL incumbent, a commitment he doubled down on in an interview last week. “I’d like to get back to basics, that we’re all trying t

  4. Article · Sep 15, 2026 · Brian Arola

    Walz actions setting precedents for next governor in Boundary Waters fight (opens the original)

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    In his final months in office, Gov. Tim Walz is demonstrating how much power his successor will wield over the Boundary Waters’ future. The outgoing governor’s Department of Natural Resources announced it will cancel a mineral lease near the wilderness area in November. A subsidiary of Twin Metals, a company in hot pursuit of copper-nickel mining in northeastern Minnesota, holds the lease. The agency’s cancellation came on the tail of a Walz executive order banning copper-nickel mining in the wi

  5. Article · Sep 14, 2026 · Brian Arola

    Far from the Boundary Waters, the Mille Lacs tribe resists another copper-nickel mine (opens the original)

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    When wild rice ripens, a gentle tap knocks grains off the stalk. The rice collects in canoes launched by harvesters in shallow waters starting each August. Conditions can be sweaty, buggy and not for the faint of heart. “But the reward at the end is beautiful wild rice,” said Kelly Applegate, commissioner of natural resources for the Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe. Applegate described this cultural practice while overlooking Rice Lake National Wildlife Refuge about an hour’s drive west of Duluth. By

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