On The Trail with the Fighting 41st

By Phillip Wynn, Senate District 41 Member Personal note: I spent three Saturdays in January door-knocking for one of the candidates in Iowa. That gives me no special credentials for writing this post, but thought I’d just put it out there. This post is in two parts....

Greetings all Senate District 41 members. Early primary voting at your city hall and by mail has begun! That means that our precinct caucus is just around the corner. The caucus is the meeting where we select delegates and set values for the DFL and the lead-in to our...

Note from Editor: Abigail is a member of DFLSD41 living with Type 1 diabetes. This her 1st blog post in a series of posts dealing with her personal struggle with diabetes, her experience as outreach coordinator for Minnesota #insulin4all, as well as the issues...

“We the People of the United States....” -Preamble, US Constitution “...[G]overnment of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.” -Abraham Lincoln I’ve been seeing a lot of folks in my Facebook newsfeed bemoaning, “the government.”...

Safety. They keep telling us it is about safety. But in August they went after immigrants who came here for medical care that they need to live, telling them to go back, that they had overstayed. To go back to countries that lack the medical specialists they need. To...

Greetings fellow 41st and 37th district members, summer is upon us once again. Following the news these days might make you want to crank up the air conditioning and sequester inside. But luckily our esteemed forty-fifth president can't put a tariff on the best darn...

Editor's note: Language and Graphic Descriptions. This post was also not edited for grammar and spelling. My Story I have a reputation for being bold (fine, crass) and saying exactly what I think. I want to premise this article with a warning - if you are of the faint...

Carolyn Laine has written an excellent bill that needs your help to clear out of committee. Time is running down at the state senate for SF 614, a housing bill aimed at helping manufactured home communities. The Agriculture, Rural Development and Housing Finance...

Fifty years ago I picked up a copy of Look magazine, which had in it photographs taken during the just completed voyage of Apollo 8 to the moon. Look magazine was the “also-ran” to the more famous Life magazine, both being large glossy magazines full of color...

When I was in 7th grade in the public school I attended in the South, I was targeted for bullying – and worse – for being gay. Thing is, I wasn’t gay. Not then. Not now. But I was somehow “different”, mostly because I was an unathletic bookworm. (The best picture of...