As a summary, here's what I'm voting this year on my Edina, MN ballot (along with links to research on why I'm voting that way): * For all partisan races (president, senate, house/state reps) - the DFL candidate. * Statewide constitutional amendment - Yes. * County

Another post about local Edina politics, this time the city council race. There are three candidates for two open positions; you get to vote for two: * Ryan Daye * Carolyn Jackson (incumbent) * James Pierce (incumbent) Carolyn Jackson Let’s get the easy one out of the way first. Jackson has been

Continuing blogging about Edina local politics… today’s race: mayor! There are two candidates for this race: * Ron Anderson * Jim Hovland (incumbent) Both candidates have tenures in Edina’s government - Anderson served on the Edina city council for one term (he lost his bid for reelection), whereas Hovland has

I’m gonna do some more write-ups on local (Edina) elections this year. (Those of you here for software development thoughts: I'll go back to that soon.) Today’s race: Hennepin county commissioner for district 6. There are two candidates for this race: * Heather Edelson (incumbent) * Marissa Simonetti

Here’s my thinking around this year’s Edina school board elections. The short version is that I’m voting for Erica Allenburg, Dan Arom, Michael Birdman, and Karen Gabler, but read on for more details. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Edina school board [https://www.edinaschools.org/Page/5225] is composed of

Last year I moved from Minneapolis to a neighboring suburb, Edina. One of the downsides of moving was that I would no longer get local political coverage from the amazing Naomi Kritzer [https://naomikritzer.com/], who each year writes up detailed reports on twin cities-area elections. While I can still