2020 Election
2020 U.S. Senate field takes shape in Minnesota, Fox 9
Trump critic Kasich to visit New Hampshire in fall, sparking more 2020 speculation of a primary challenge, Fox News
Agriculture
TRUMP’S CHINA TRADE WAR BAILOUT ‘NOWHERE NEAR’ COVERS FARMERS’ LOSSES, MINNESOTA FARMERS UNION PRESIDENT SAYS, NewsWeek
Here’s Where The Cows Are, Ag Web
‘I’ll do it until I’m dead’: Farmer uses banking job to help pursue his passion, Grand Forks Herald
Attorney General Keith Ellison
Defending Liberians from deportation, Insight News
DFL News
DFLers take Hagedorn to task on health care record, Rochester Post Bulletin
MN DFL’S HANDS OFF OUR HEALTHCARE TOUR, KIMT
Donald Trump
Trump’s attempt to outrun a recession might make things worse, CNN
Coal workers fight for benefits as industry struggles under Trump, NBC News
Trump quotes conspiracy theorist claiming Israelis ‘love him like he is the second coming of God’, Washington Post
Trump says the Fed is the ‘only problem’ with the economy, calls Powell ‘a golfer who can’t putt’, CNBC
Economy
Target shares rocket upward, passing $100 for first time, after strong results, Star Tribune
Dow rises 200 points amid good earnings from Target and Lowe’s, Market Watch
Mortgage demand falls as interest rates flatten, CNBC
Environment
How is Minnesota allocating its $47 million from the Volkswagen settlement?, MinnPost
U.S. recycling industry struggles to figure out a future without China, MPR
Amazon Rain Forest Burning at Record Rate, CNN
Governor Tim Walz
Specialty coins are new Walz calling card, MPR
Healthcare
Family healthcare spending now equals the cost of a new Harley-Davidson, report says, USA Today
Health Care Workers Say Florida Government Clinic Threatened to Fire Them for Speaking Spanish, Slate
Column: The 10 worst things Trump has done to harm your healthcare, LA Times
Immigration
Migrant Families Would Face Indefinite Detention Under New Trump Rule, NY Times
A detained immigrant says she needs to breastfeed her daughter. ICE responds with a lactation exam, CNN
Minnesota News
Del Monte closing Minnesota vegetable canning plant, costing 360 jobs, Pioneer Press
In hurricane’s wake, Puerto Ricans find safe harbor in Minnesota, MPR
‘Miracle’ hockey team member in Minnesota jail, accused of beating neighbor with metal pole, Star Tribune
St. Paul trash wars argued at MN Supreme Court, KARE11
Ten candidates, four seats: A preview of the St. Paul school board race, MinnPost
From activist to authority, Jeremiah Ellison navigates Minneapolis’ civil rights fight, Star Tribune
News of the World
President Trump Has Postponed His Denmark Visit Because Greenland Isn’t for Sale, Time
Iran says top waterways won’t be as safe if its oil exports cut to zero, Reuters
US drone shot down over Yemen, CNN
Explainer: Italy’s PM Conte resigns. What comes next?, Reuters
Brexit: PM to meet Angela Merkel with call to scrap backstop, BBC
Representative Ilhan Omar (CD5, D)
Rep. Ilhan Omar throws support behind LGBTQ Palestinian group, NBC News
Fox News guest shuts down panel bashing Ilhan Omar by pointing out Trump’s ‘profoundly’ anti-Semitic rhetoric, Raw Story
Republicans
Log Cabin GOP official who resigned over Trump: ‘He will divide and damage and destroy this country’, The Hill
Trump critics eye GOP primary race, even if defeating him seems ‘preposterous’, Washington Post
Senator Amy Klobuchar
Klobuchar, Smith praise $830,000 in USDA rural energy grants for Minnesota, Brainerd Dispatch
Senator Tina Smith
SEN. TINA SMITH ON PLANNED PARENTHOOD EXIT FROM TITLE X, Grand Rapid Herald Review
Smith hears about rural health challenges, International Falls Journal
At housing talk, Smith hears about ‘bubble people’, Crookston Times
U.S. News
March For Our Lives, No Longer Protesting In Streets, Unveils Gun Control Plan, NPR
‘Storm Area 51’ event pushes rural Nevada county to declare emergency, USA Today
Trade war costing average household $580, CBO says, The Hill
Deficit Will Reach $1 Trillion Next Year, Budget Office Predicts, NY TImes
Sites like Facebook, Google and Twitter allowed white supremacists to flourish. Now what?, USA Today
Racism Has Thwarted American Ideals From the Beginning, and Still Does, New Yorker
Upcoming DFL Events:
- August 21, 7:00 to 9:00 PM — CD3 DFL Central Committee Meeting, Council Chamber, Minnetonka Community Center, 14600 Minnetonka Blvd, Minnetonka, MN 55345
- August 22
- 6:00 to 8:00 PM — SD33 DFL Issues Door Knock, Caribou Coffee, 325 Clydesdale Trl, Unit 100, Hamel, MN 55340. For more information or to RSVP, email s.holte@dflsd33.org.
- August 24
- 9:00 AM to 3:00 PM — SD47 DFL at Stifungfest Craft Fair, 21 Main St E, Young America, MN 55397
- 10:00 AM to 1:00 PM — SD50 DFL Brunch in the Park, Moir Park, 10320 Morgan Ave S, Bloomington, MN 55431. Join them for food, fun and friendship with your neighbors.
- 11:00 AM to 1:00 PM — SD33 DFL Issues Based Door Knock, 325 Clydesdale Trl, Unit 100, Hamel, MN 55340
- 2:00 to 4:00 PM — SD33 DFL Issues Based Door Knock, 325 Clydesdale Trl, Unit 100, Hamel, MN 55340
- August 25, 3:00 to 7:00 PM — SD33 DFL Summer Picnic, more information as it becomes available.
- August 31, 9:00 AM to 12:00 PM — SD48 DFL Southwest 5K Run/Walk, Purgatory Creek Park, 13001 Technology Dr, Eden Prairie, MN 55344. More information and register here.
- September 2 — Labor Day
- September 3
- 7:00 to 8:30 PM — SD37 DFL Central Committee Meeting, visit their Facebook pagefor this month’s specifics
- 7:00 to 8:30 PM — SD40 DFL Central Committee Meeting, Room C, Brookdale Library, 6125 Shingle Creek Pkwy, Brooklyn Center, MN 55430.
- September 4
- 6:30 to 8:30 PM — SD50 DFL Central Committee Meeting, Room C102, Kennedy High School, 9701 Nicollet Ave, Bloomington, MN 55420
- 7:00 to 9:00 PM — SD33 DFL Central Committee Meeting, Room 172, Ridgedale Library, Ridgedale Library, 12601 Ridgedale Dr, Minnetonka, MN 55305
- September 7 — SD47 DFL at Steamboat Days Minnesota Made
- September 8
- 11:30 AM to 2:00 PM — SD47 DFL Marching in the Carver Steamboat Days Parade
- 1:00 to 2:00 PM — SD40 DFL Book Club meeting, contact them for more information.
- September 9
- 7:00 to 9:00 PM — SD44 DFL Central Committee Meeting, Council Chambers, Minnetonka Community Center, 14600 Minnetonka Blvd, Minnetonka, MN 55345
- 7:00 to 9:00 PM — SD49 DFL Central Committee Meeting, 7001 Cahill Rd, Suite 21, Edina, MN
- September 12 — Presidential Debate airing on ABC and Univision, more information as it becomes available
- 7:00 to 9:00 PM — SD48 DFL Central Committee Meeting, Glen Lake Activity Center, 14350 Excelsior Blvd, Minnetonka, MN 55345
- September 13 — Presidential Debate airing on ABC and Univision if necessary, more information as it becomes available
- September 14, 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM — SD47 DFL members will be visiting Nickle Dickle Days in Waconia
- September 15 — SD47 DFL Blue Wav Rising Dinner, more information as it becomes available
- September 18, 7:00 to 9:00 PM — CD3 DFL Central Committee Meeting, Council Chamber, Minnetonka Community Center, 14600 Minnetonka, Blvd, Minnetonka, MN 55345
- September 21 — State DFL Business Conference, Redwood Valley Senior High School, 100 George Ramseth Dr, Redwood Falls, MN 56283. More information as it becomes available.