How Minnesota United For All Families took on the marriage amendment – and won. Also, DFLers pick leaders in the Legislature, how demographics affected this year's elections, and why some members of our two premiere orchestras are packing their bags.
Minnesota Today from MPR News
November 9, 2012
Gay marriage vote a gamble for many DFLers
Minnesota Capitol by Geoff Myers via Flickr
“17 DFL House members and 10 DFL senators are in districts where the amendment, which would have defined marriage as between a man and woman, passed with 50 percent or more of the vote,”
via Capitol View.
A packed courtroom watches Last Place on Earth proceedings
“The controversial downtown Duluth headshop Last Place on Earth was in St. Louis County court Friday, hoping to avoid an injunction that could close their doors for one year,” via Northland News Center.
Minnesota Sounds & Voices
Balsam takes its seasonal bough
Minnesota’s balsam bough harvest cranks into high gear as seasonal wreath makers prepare for the holidays.
Caterpillar plans to leave Owatonna, 100 people will lose jobs
“Five Caterpillar administrators drove to Steele County on Thursday to tell 100 employees the bad news that they will be without jobs when Caterpillar’s Owatonna plant closes on March 1, 2013.
“Caterpillar spokesperson Rachel Potts said the forest products plant in Owatonna will ‘ramp down production’ between now and March 1. She also said that eventually all forest products made in Owatonna will transition to other Caterpillar forestry plants in Prentice, Wis., and LaGrange, Ga.” reports Owatonna People’s Press.
Diversity
Latinos and voter ID
Outstate Minnesota cities with high concentrations of Latino residents split their vote on the photo ID constitutional amendment question in Tuesday’s election.
Research says you should move to the Twin Cities
“The Twin” a panoramic image by Peter Ladd via MN Today’s Flickr pool
“Of the 15 highest-income metropolitan areas in the United States, 14 are in high-cost coastal areas. The other one, clocking in at No. 12 with a median household income about 23 percent above the national average, is the Minneapolis-St Paul MSA with its low low Midwestern prices.
People appear to be deterred from moving to Minneapolis on the grounds that it’s very cold, but David Schkade and Daniel Kahneman have found that people’s thinking about weather and happiness is dominated by ‘focusing illusion‘ in which ‘easily observed and distinctive differences between locations are given more weight in such judgments than they will have in reality.’ (more…)
Top 5
- DFL elects Tom Bakk to lead Minnesota Senate, Thissen will be House Speaker (MPR News)
- Why Minnesota is “high impact” for climate change (Updraft)
- Long-time Moose Lake newspaper ceases publication (Pine Journal)
- Pastor accused of assaulting men during counseling (KARE11)
- Maps: The Marriage and Voter ID votes by precinct (MPR News)
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