Politics

During this week’s legislative updates, Congressman Keith Ellison:http://ellison.house.gov/ focuses on the Brain Injury Act, credit justice to consumers, the 2nd Chance Act, the cost of the Iraq War

Reprsentative Willie Dominguez (DFL) 58B gave KFAI news an update [April 10th] on the Healthcare Reform Bill.

On April 7th, Governor Tim Pawlenty issued his line-item vetoes to the state’s public works bill. They hit the capitol city particularly hard, as St.

Al Franken is currently the lead contender in Minnesota’s US Senate race. He’s campaigning against incumbent Republican Norm Coleman and DFL underdog Jack Nelson-Pallmeyer. Last week, KFAI interviewed Nelson-Pallmeyer’s campaign manager following his surge of support in several Senate District conventions.

US Senate candidate Jack Nelson-Pallmeyer has garnered some additional support on his bid for the DFL endorsement against Al Franken. At Senate and County conventions across the state last weekend, the competition between both candidates was evident. In South Minneapolis’s Senate District 61, the delegate count was 10 for Nelson-Pallmeyer to Franken’s 7.

Margaret Donahoe is the Executive Director of the Minnesota Transportation Alliance:http://www.transportationalliance.com/.

Temporary Protected Status, known as TPS, is for foreign nationals currently residing in the United States, whose homeland conditions are recognized by the US government as being remporarily unsafe or

While we are all concerned about the price of gasoline, Minnesota’s gas tax will increase by two cents a gallon on Tuesday, April 1st, and many people wonder how this will affect the price they will p

In commemoration of the 5th Anniversary of the war in Iraq, KFAI’s news department decided to interview a soldier who is committed to serving his country by participating in armed conflict and as he s

United Steelworkers, the Minnesota Fair Trade Coalition and Witness for Peace-Upper Midwest recently sponsored a series of forums throughout Minnesota to discuss Colombia labor union assassinations an