This story originally appeared on MinnPost. Gov. Tim Walz was picked as Vice President Kamala Harris’s running mate for many reasons—among them his rural roots, which Democrats hope will help erase a ...

It was August 2022. The lush indolence of late summer in Minnesota had given way to fevered anxiety over the state’s midterm elections. Tim Walz, the Democratic governor, was running for re-election ...

At 84, former Iowa Sen. Tom Harkin is still showing his capacity as an unlikely reformer. Harkin retired from the U.S. Congress in 2015 after 30 years as a Democratic Senator, and 10 years before that ...

A formidable voting-rights lawsuit just dropped in Montana. On September 30, tribal citizens of the Fort Peck Indian Reservation filed suit in state court alleging that the Montana secretary of state, ...

Election forecasters predict that 54 “battleground” races in the 2024 election that will determine who controls the U.S. House of Representatives in 2025, with numerous rural and agricultural ...

In a 2019 column in the New York Times, Paul Krugman wrote, “There are powerful forces behind the relative and in some cases absolute economic decline of rural America—and the truth is that nobody ...

In 2016, Maine dairy farmer Fred Stone learned his farmland was contaminated by a class of synthetic chemicals known as PFAS when a local water district tested a well it maintained on Stone’s land.

As a September 30 deadline looms to pass a new farm bill, farm groups and agriculture leaders of all stripes are stepping up calls for Congress to act, warning that too long of a wait for a new bill, ...

After hours of contentious debate over nutrition, conservation, the definition of “cuts” and the meaning of “bipartisanship,” the Republican-led committee passed a bill that crossed several of ...

Rev. Dr. Judy Kincaid serves as a pastor in the Evangelical Lutheran Church of America. A featured preacher on the website, “A Sermon for Every Sunday,” Judy received her bachelor’s degree in ...

House Republicans see oil, gas and coal fueling our energy future; the facts prove them wrong.

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