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Flanagan wins DFL Senate nomination in Minnesota

Lt. Governor turns toward November contest with Michele Tafoya after campaign says grassroots operation overcame more than $20 million in outside spending

By Al McFarlane, Editor-in-Chief, Insight News Peggy Flanagan won Minnesota’s Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party nomination for U.S. Senate on Aug. 11 and will face Republican nominee Michele Tafoya in November, moving a campaign built around working families, public programs and grassroots organizing into the general election.

Flanagan addressed supporters at the historic First Avenue in Minneapolis after the primary.

Her campaign framed the victory as proof that organizing could overcome money in politics, saying more than $20 million in outside spending had been directed against her campaign.

“For months now, I’ve been telling you that this campaign

was about the many vs. the money,” Flanagan said. “Well guess what?

The many just won.”

The campaign said its grassroots operation held more than 300 events in 112 communities, spoke directly with tens of thousands of Minnesotans and engaged more than 6,000 volunteers. Insight News has not independently verified those figures.

“When we work together, when we organize together, and when we fight together – we are unstoppable,” Flanagan said.

“Minnesota’s going to be part of Democrats taking back the Senate, holding Donald Trump accountable, and helping working people before billionaires and corporate special interests.”

Flanagan also moved quickly toward party unity. The campaign said she spoke with U.S.

Rep. Angie Craig after the results and welcomed Craig’s support for the general election.

“To everyone who voted for Angie, I appreciate that you made your voice heard,” Flanagan said. “But know this, I will bust my tail to earn your votes and most importantly, your trust. I need you in this fight. Minnesota needs you in this fight.”

Her prepared remarks connected the campaign’s policy agenda to her experience growing up in a household led by a single working mother. Flanagan described food assistance, Section 8 housing and Medicaid not as abstractions, but as programs that shaped her childhood.

“To me, food assistance isn’t just a line item in the federal budget, it’s why I was able to walk out of the food shelf with a block of

commodity cheese under my arm.

Section 8 wasn’t just a number. It’s how we moved into our apartment in St. Louis Park. And Medicaid isn’t some abstract program, it’s what kept me alive throughout my childhood when I had really bad asthma.”

Flanagan is Ojibwe and a member of the White Earth Nation, and would be the first Native American woman to serve in the United States Senate. In her remarks she identified herself as the daughter of Marvin Manypenny, an Ojibwe activist, and of Pat Flanagan, an Irish-Catholic health care worker, and named her clan and its obligation.

“Our clan is the wolf clan and our role is to leave no one behind.”

The agenda she presented includes Medicare for All, elimi-

nating insurance prior authorization, affordable housing, Right to Repair legislation for farmers and immigration reform with a pathway to citizenship. She also called for dismantling ICE in its current form, removing money from politics and fighting government corruption.

The November campaign will also sharpen Flanagan’s contrast with Tafoya and President Donald Trump. In her election-night remarks, Flanagan accused Tafoya of supporting Trump on immigration, health care, tariffs and the war in Iran. Those are Flanagan’s campaign criticisms. Insight News has not independently verified them.

Her prepared remarks returned to the organizing argument that has defined the campaign.

“We’re going to win,” Flanagan said. “The many are going to beat the money one more time.”

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Amy Klobuchar

Lisa Demuth

Cedrick Frazier

Klobuchar and Demuth lead governor primaries Editorin-Chief, Insight News

By Al McFarlane Minnesota’s November ballot took shape in the Aug. 11 primary. U.S. Sen. Amy Klobuchar and Minnesota House Speaker Lisa Demuth led their parties’ fields for governor, and Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan and Michele Tafoya led theirs for the U.S. Senate seat Democratic Sen. Tina Smith is leaving. The returns are unofficial until the State Canvassing Board certifies them Aug. 18.

In the Democratic-Farmer-Labor primary for governor, Klobuchar and running mate Ben Schierer led a seven-ticket field with 615,040 votes, or 89.69%, over Kobey J. Layne and Paul Ference, who had 39,528, or 5.76%. On the Republican side, Demuth and running mate Ryan Wilson led with 179,683 votes, or 43.44%, over MyPillow founder Mike Lindell and Phillip C. Parrish, who had 134,282, or 32.47%.

Kendall Qualls and Brian Nicholson finished third with 88,413 votes, or 21.38%.

Those returns point toward a November contest between Klobuchar and Demuth, subject to certification, placing two women at the head of the state’s major-party tickets for

executive office.

Flanagan led the DFL Senate field with 411,853 votes, or 59.01%, over U.S. Rep. Angie Craig, who had 274,920, or 39.39%. Former NFL sideline reporter Tafoya led a nine-candidate Republican field with 211,813 votes, or 52.07%, followed by Marine veteran and former Navy SEAL Adam Schwarze with 97,470, or 23.96%, and conservative commentator Royce White with 45,374, or 11.15%.

“For months now, I’ve been telling you that this campaign was about the many vs. the money. Well guess what?

The many just won,” Flanagan said in her election-night remarks as prepared, delivered to supporters at First Avenue in

Minneapolis.

Craig conceded and urged her supporters to back Flanagan. She said President Donald Trump is a threat to democracy and that Tafoya “would be nothing more than a rubber stamp to his dangerous agenda,” the Associated Press reported.

Tafoya offered a different argument. Speaking to reporters after casting her ballot Aug. 11 in a Minneapolis suburb, she said Minnesota has had a “crisis of leadership” and that the state is ready for change.

One contest farther down the ballot shows how small the distance between po-

GOVERNOR

Anders Folk

Frazier, Folk compete for Hennepin County attorney in November election Cedrick Frazier led the field in the Hennepin County attorney primary, with 87,447 votes, or 35.95%, in unofficial returns from the Aug. 11 primary.

Anders Folk was second with 55,610 votes, or 22.86%. Diane M. Krenz had 46,150, or 18.97%. Hao Nguyen had 36,424, or 14.97%. Matt Pelikan had 17,648, or 7.25%.

The race drew

243,279 votes across all 395 precincts in the county, all of which had reported when Insight News captured these returns Aug. 15.

These are unofficial returns captured from the Minnesota Secretary of State on Aug. 15, 2026, and remain subject to certification Aug. 18.

Current returns are available at electionresults.sos.mn.gov.

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Analysis: Crowley's Wisconsin win puts coalition politics to the November test David Crowley has emerged from Wisconsin's Democratic gubernatorial primary carrying an argument larger than the result itself: winning in November will require Democrats to build a coalition broad enough to hold competing constituencies together.

The Milwaukee county executive defeated state Rep. Francesca Hong by less than a percentage point. The Associated Press did not call the race until the morning after the election.

If he wins in November, Crowley would be Wiscon-

sin's first Black governor.

He won a fractured field rather than a majority. Gov. Tony Evers opened the seat by declining to seek a third term.

Crowley suspended his own campaign in early July and endorsed Lt. Gov. Sara Rodriguez, whose candidacy then collapsed in a campaign finance scandal.

He reentered ten days later with Evers' endorsement.

Crowley's argument is clear enough in the record.

A fundraising appeal sent in his name by the National Democratic Training Committee says, “Wisconsin Demo-

crats came together and won by working hard and building a real coalition.” The appeal states that it was not authorized by any candidate or candidate's committee, so it is evidence of the message being circulated in Crowley's name, not a statement issued by him or his campaign.

The same appeal describes Crowley as the youngest person and the first Black person to hold the office of Milwaukee County Executive, and says his work there brought labor, business and community organizations together.

Coalition is therefore

David Crowley not simply a description of what happened. It is the central argument being advanced for his candidacy.

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Capitol legends: The truth behind Minnesota State Capitol myths

By Graham Johnson The most common question posed to State Capitol tour guides is, “Where’s the bathroom?”

The next most common questions often have to do with some of the myths and

legends that endure in the building’s hallowed halls.

From a cow in the House Gallery to skeletons buried in the basement, Brian Pease, historic site manager of the Minnesota State Capitol, has worked for decades to correct the lingering rumors of the place.

While most are unsubstantiated, many feature “little bits and pieces” of fact, tying them further into the discussions of the building’s history and lore, Pease said. He sat down with Session Daily to talk about some of the most repeated myths, how they came to be, and the glimmers of truth that

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Teneshia Kragness

Hollies J. Winston

Teneshia Kragness led the Brooklyn Center mayoral primary and Hollies J. Winston led Brooklyn Park’s, in unofficial returns from the Aug. 11 primary.

In Brooklyn Center, Kragness had 1,832 votes, or 52.86%. Alexander Koenig had 683, or 19.71%. Laurie Ann Moore had 676, or 19.50%.

Latrecia J. Mayo had 275, or 7.93%. The race drew 3,466 votes across all six precincts.

Nine candidates ran for two Brooklyn Center council seats, drawing 5,983 votes.

Gretchen Enger led with 1,060, or 17.72%, and Dan Jerzak followed with 1,030, or 17.22%.

Then Nahid Khan, 815; Mark Viste, 657; Justin McGuire, 568; Ebonie L. McMillan, 564; Aniya White, 533; Jacob Car-

ter, 491; and Georgette Byers, 265.

In Brooklyn Park, Winston had 5,639 votes, or 48.58%. Shelle Page had 3,167, or 27.29%. Boyd Morson had 1,660, or 14.30%. Maria Tran had 1,141, or 9.83%. The race drew 11,607 votes across all 25 precincts.

In Ward E, Christian Eriksen led with 2,068 votes, or 52.43%, over Allen Miskowiec, 696; Philip Seton Gaye-Bai, 591; and Aaron Endris, 589.

The race drew 3,944 votes across all nine precincts.

These are unofficial returns captured from the Minnesota Secretary of State on Aug. 15, 2026, and remain subject to certification Aug. 18.

Current returns are available at electionresults.sos.mn.gov.

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Commentary The State of Black America is really about access Columnist

By Haley Taylor Schlitz, Esq. The National Urban League’s 2026 State of Black America asks a question that should make this country uncomfortable: Is the American Dream dead?

The report does not answer that question with nostalgia or despair. It answers it with evidence.

Fifty years after the Urban League published its first State of Black America, and 250 years after the Declaration of Independence announced a national promise of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, the report asks us to look honestly at the distance between those words and the lives Black Americans are still living.

That distance is visible in wealth, housing, employment, health, education and political power.

The report notes that the racial homeownership gap is wider today than it was before the Fair Housing Act of 1968.

It points to a Black unemployment rate that has remained

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roughly twice the white unemployment rate across decades. It documents how Black families continue to hold dramatically less wealth than white families, even as Black Americans have broken barriers in education, business, politics, culture and public life.

That combination matters.

Progress is real.

So are the barriers that remain.

One of the most important things this year’s report does is refuse to treat those truths as contradictory.

Black Americans have advanced because generations of people pushed institutions to change. The law changed. Schools opened.

Voting rights expanded. New professions became accessible.

Black political representation grew. Black entrepreneurship

flourished.

But the report also reminds us that recognition is not the same as access, and access is not the same as power.

That lesson runs through several of the essays accompanying the report.

Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison makes it especially clear in his essay on access to justice.

He asks what justice means in the life of a mother in North Minneapolis trying to keep her home, a teenager in East St. Paul facing the criminal justice system or an immigrant family deciding whether the law is something they can turn to for protection.

His point is simple and powerful: rights mean less when people do not have the resources to enforce them.

A person may technically have the right to challenge

an unlawful eviction, fight wage theft, defend against abusive policing or navigate a family-law dispute. But if that person cannot afford a lawyer, cannot understand the process or cannot meaningfully access the court system, then the promise of justice becomes conditional.

Ellison asks whether the legal system is functioning as a public good or as a luxury product.

That is a question worth sitting with.

Because the law can be everywhere in a person’s life while legal help remains nowhere within reach.

The system can impose fines, judgments, deadlines and consequences with remarkable efficiency, while the tools needed to challenge those actions remain expensive, confusing or inaccessible.

That is how inequali-

Who decides what communities know? Local television consolidation and Black democratic participation Director of Technology Policy Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies

By Danielle A. Davis Canty On March 7, 1965, millions of Americans watched footage from Selma, Alabama, as state troopers attacked peaceful civil rights marchers attempting to cross the Edmund Pettus Bridge. What had begun as a local struggle over voting rights suddenly became a national story. The images broadcast into living rooms across the country transformed public understanding of the barriers Black Americans faced at the ballot box and helped generate momentum for passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. The lesson was clear: communities that are seen are harder to ignore. Visibility creates accountability, and accountability creates the possibility of change.

More than sixty years later, that lesson remains relevant. The struggle for political change has always depended, in part, on the ability of communities to make their concerns visi-

ble to the broader public. While Americans continue to receive information through social media and digital platforms, local television continues to shape how communities understand the issues affecting their daily lives. Local broadcasters cover elections, public safety, schools, housing, economic development, and local government.

They help determine which concerns receive public attention and which remain largely invisible. As ownership of local television stations becomes more concentrated among a smaller number of companies, the debate is often framed as a technical dispute about media regulation. In reality, it’s also a question about democratic power: Who decides what communities know, whose stories are told, and which concerns are deemed worthy of public attention?

Local television occupies a unique place within the American media landscape.

Unlike newspapers, websites, or streaming platforms, broadcast stations operate using publicly owned spectrum. For decades, federal communications policy has recognized that access to this public resource carries obligations to serve the public inter-

est. This understanding shaped ownership rules intended to promote localism, competition, and viewpoint diversity—principles grounded in the belief that communities benefit when multiple voices contribute to the production and distribution of local news. The objective was not simply economic regulation.

It was to preserve a media environment capable of informing citizens, supporting civic participation, and strengthening democratic accountability.

Today, however, local television ownership has become more concentrated.

The five largest corporate station groups now control about 700 stations across the country. Supporters of consolidation argue that larger ownership groups can generate efficiencies that help local broadcasters remain competitive in a rapidly changing media environment, where growing competition from social media platforms, streaming services, and digital advertising markets have fundamentally altered the economics of local journalism. Yet, the conversation cannot end there.

Local television is not simply another business sector. It is part of the democratic infrastructure upon which communities de-

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The economy is broken for normal people. That is why candidates like Peggy Flanagan, Abdul El-Sayed, and Zohran Mamdani are winning.

It is not about labels

like socialism or capitalism. It is about money. About small paychecks and big bills.

The median household makes about $78,000 a year. The median house costs

nearly $430,000. That is more than five times their income. In 1984, it was three times. You cannot save your way out of that gap. You cannot budget your way to a down payment when

argument goes beyond telling people to work harder. He argues that the racial wealth gap was created by policy choices, and therefore requires policy choices to close it.

The GI Bill helped build the white middle class while excluding many Black veterans. Redlining shaped where families could buy homes and whether those homes appreciated in value. Lending and procurement rules determined who could start businesses and who could grow them.

Those decisions did not simply affect income in one moment.

They shaped inheritance.

They shaped which families could help a child with college tuition, make a down payment, survive a medical emergency or provide seed money for a business.

That is the difference between earning money and building economic power.

Don Lemon’s essay approaches the issue from a different direction.

He writes about media, voice and ownership.

After decades at CNN, Lemon describes losing the institutional platform that had carried his voice to

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pend. And “efficiencies” in the form of price hikes on TV viewers and major cuts to consolidated newsrooms does nothing to strengthen that infrastructure.

The significance of these questions is evident in contemporary debates over media ownership. The acquisition of TEGNA by Nexstar Media Group generated significant discussion among policymakers, advocates, and industry stakeholders about the future of local television. Supporters argued that consolidation would allow broadcasters to compete more effectively against large technology platforms and changing media markets. Critics countered that the transaction would lead to higher prices for cable and satellite subscribers and significant newsroom layoffs – in fact, Nexstar executives openly admitted as much – while further concentrating control over local television news and reducing the number of inde-

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Why progressive candidates are winning Minnesota Attorney General

ty can reproduce itself even inside institutions built around the language of fairness.

Governor Wes Moore makes a related argument in his essay about closing the racial wealth gap.

He writes about his mother, who worked multiple jobs after the death of his father before eventually finding stable employment with benefits. That job changed the trajectory of their family.

But Moore also tells the story of his grandfather, whose family was driven out of South Carolina by the Ku Klux Klan. His grandfather later returned to the United States, attended an HBCU, became a minister and lived what most Americans would describe as a life of service, discipline and hard work.

Yet he died with little wealth to pass down.

That story exposes another gap between promise and reality.

Work matters.

Wages matter.

But work alone does not create generational wealth.

Homeownership, access to capital, business ownership, savings, credit and assets determine whether one generation can pass something tangible to the next.

That is why Moore’s

rent eats half your paycheck.

So people rent forever. They build no equity. They own nothing.

Then you get sick.

Half of all adults carry medical debt. Insurance has a deductible you never hit until catastrophe strikes. One ER visit, one cancer diagnosis, one car crash— and you are bankrupt. The hospital sells your debt to a collector who calls at dinner. The law lets them garnish your wages.

The government watches and does nothing.

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Frey proposes 11.3% levy increase as council begins months of budget review Mayor Frey’s proposed 2027 Minneapolis budget would increase the property tax levy by 11.3% while eliminating more than 100 full-time positions and making what Council President Elliott Payne described as significant service cuts.

Those figures remain proposals. The City Council began considering the mayor’s recommended budget Aug. 13 and referred it to the Budget Committee, which includes all 13 council members. The council must ultimately approve a final budget with at least seven affirmative votes, followed by approval from the mayor, before the end of the year.

Governor From 3 litical outcomes can become. In the Republican primary in Senate District 5, Mike Wiener led Sen. Paul Utke 5,803 votes to 5,611 — 50.84% to 49.16%, a margin of 192 votes.

The counting itself moved fast and is essentially

Crowley From 3 Hong's challenge remains part of the result

Francesca Hong's showing makes that argument more demanding.

Hong is a democratic socialist from Madison, a single mother and former line cook who ran on free child care and health care and a moratorium on artificial intelligence data center construction. Her campaign put structural economic questions before Democratic voters and demonstrated that a substantial constituency inside the party wants more than continuity.

A narrow loss does not make that constituency disappear.

Crowley's November

Capitol From 3 can be found within them.

Legend: Farmers tipped a cow over the House Gallery railing

An enduring, and entirely unsubstantiated, legend about the Capitol is that farmers tipped an emaciated cow over the railing of the public gallery in the House Chamber during the Great Depression.

During that time, farmers did bring starving livestock to the Capitol grounds to showcase dire farm conditions, but none made it inside.

The legend dates to the Great Depression itself when farmers were said to have thrown rotten vegetables at representatives from the gallery.

These stories lack evidence.

“You would think that there would be a newspaper article,” Pease said.

Over the years, events were conflated and the legend grew “from vegetables to livestock,” Pease said. Farmers throwing vegetables shifted into throwing manure, which eventually became tipping a cow over the railing.

Pease has heard visitors reference the closure of seating in the gallery behind the speaker’s dais as evidence for the rumor — that’s from where the farmers supposedly threw the vegetables. In fact, the space was renovated for offices, rather than as a response to any incident.

Legend: Swastikas in the Rathskeller

The Rathskeller cafeteria is named for the German term “Ratskeller” which refers to a basement tavern or restaurant often located beneath town halls or council houses.

Sitting directly be-

Payne said council members are still reviewing the proposal and questioning how the administration arrived at a combination of layoffs, service reductions and a double-digit levy increase.

“We particularly need more scrutiny around police overtime spending and financial controls (or lack thereof),” Payne wrote in an Aug. 14 Ward 1 update.

Payne said overspending on police overtime was a large part of the current shortfall driving the city’s budget situation. That characterization comes from Payne’s council communication; Insight

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News did not independently verify it against the underlying budget or financial documents.

Council Member Robin Wonsley also raised concerns about programs and services she believed had been cut or were vulnerable to losing funding. Her Aug. 14 Ward 2 update included one correction: Wonsley said Public Works informed her office that nearly $600,000 in funding for the municipal sidewalk snow and ice clearing program would be maintained in the proposed 2027 budget.

Wonsley described that spending as supporting the city’s transportation goals and

said the Climate and Infrastructure Committee would receive an update on the sidewalk pilot the following week. No vote on that issue had been taken when her update was sent.

Wonsley also reported progress on the Emergency Housing Voucher program, which she said she led the council to fund with Hennepin County and the Minneapolis Public Housing Authority for 50 families and 50 individuals on the county’s coordinated entry list. She said the mayor declined to implement the funding

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done. All 4,105 precincts in all 87 counties had reported when Insight News captured these returns Aug. 14. What remains unfinished is not the count but the certification.

One number is still missing. The Secretary of State is not publishing a statewide turnout percentage for this primary, because the eligible-voter estimate has not been updated for 2026, and the office cautions that vote totals may appear to

exceed the number of ballots recorded until every precinct’s voting statistics are entered.

Precinct statistics are entered after results, not alongside them.

Minnesota law directed county canvassing boards to meet on the second or third day after the state primary and to publicly canvass the returns, and requires the State Canvassing Board to meet seven days after the primary to canvass the certified county reports. That is

Aug. 18.

ing and understand the direction voters have taken without treating an unfinished legal process as complete.

Vote totals in this report are unofficial returns captured from the Minnesota Secretary of State’s results system on Aug. 14, 2026, the last update before this edition went to press. They remain subject to State Canvassing Board certification scheduled for Aug. 18, 2026, and totals and percent-

ages may change before then.

County canvassing boards were required to complete their canvass by Aug. 14, and any figures posted after that date are not reflected here. Recounts may be requested after canvassing, and official results are amended to reflect any completed recount.

Current returns are available from the Secretary of State at electionresults.sos.mn.gov.

task therefore begins inside his own party. A coalition capable of defeating Tiffany must make room for voters who supported Hong as well as voters who chose Crowley. The question is not whether those groups can occupy the same ballot line. It is whether they can see their priorities in the same governing project.

That is one reading of the primary, and others will compete with it. Some will see Crowley's victory as evidence that Democratic voters favored experience and coalition-building. Others will point to Hong's performance as evidence of demand for a more progressive program.

What the record does not show is that any single constituency, Black voters included, decided that argument by itself, or that one political motive can be assigned to Black voters as a group.

The result carries a more precise conclusion. Com-

peting theories of Democratic power met in Wisconsin, and neither side emerged politically irrelevant.

ocratic field in July with more than $775,000 raised, nearly half of it from unions. Hong raised more than $338,000.

The NDTC appeal sent in Crowley's name puts the figure higher, saying Tiffany had “more than $15 million, including a $10 million transfer straight from the state Republican Party.” That is the appeal's claim, not an independently established total.

The distinction matters, and so does the pattern the verified filings show. Money raised by a candidate, party transfers, cash on hand and outside spending are different measures. What the reporting establishes is that Tiffany enters the general election with a large financial advantage, and that Republican Party transfers are the main source of it.

For Crowley, money is only one part of the November problem.

A Democratic prima-

ry coalition and a statewide general-election coalition are not the same thing. Crowley must hold Democrats who wanted a different nominee while competing for voters whose decision will turn on governance, affordability, jobs, housing, schools, public safety and confidence in state leadership.

His coalition argument will be measured against those material questions.

operate inside coalitions broad enough to govern?

The useful comparison is not electoral equivalence.

It is coalition construction.

neath the House Chamber, the term is an apt one for the Capitol’s basement cafeteria.

The ceiling of the Rathskeller features painted vines, scrolls and 29 German sayings, including "Drink, but don't indulge in drinking; speak, but don't pick quarrels" and "Today for money, tomorrow for nothing."

It has been falsely said the ceiling also once sported swastikas which had to be painted over. While it isn’t true, the legend is rooted in real historic events.

Pease cites two impulses for changes over the years: anti-German sentiment during World War I and Prohibition.

In 1917, Minnesota’s 22nd governor, J. A. A. Burnquist, had the Rathskeller’s original stencil designs painted over.

From 1917-1920, Burnquist led the Minnesota Commission of Public Safety, which was tasked with supporting the United States’ war effort. The commission was widely suspicious of German immigrants and would go on to call the Rathskeller a threat to “Americanism,” ordering its German slogans painted over.

The slogans were added back to the ceiling in 1930 but several were changed due to prohibitionists who increasingly chafed against drinking slogans above lawmakers’ heads.

“Better be tipsy than feverish” became “Temperance is a virtue of men,” and “Cheerful disposition and noble wine” became “Cheerful disposition and noble food.”

In 1937, however, the space transitioned from a public restaurant to a cafeteria with serving lines. Due to food being served directly from the Rathskeller, food grease coated the ceiling, requiring it to be repainted “every few years,” hiding the original character beneath plaster and asbestos for the next 60 years, Pease said.

Tiffany changes the equation

The general election presents another kind of test.

Campaign finance reports covering January through June showed Tiffany raising $8.7 million, bringing his campaign total above $10 million, with more than $6.1 million of it arriving through transfers from the Republican Party of Wisconsin. The state party's own money included $4 million from Richard and Elizabeth Uihlein and $2.5 million from Diane Hendricks. A later report covering July 1 through July 27 showed Tiffany raising more than $4.6 million, about $4 million of it again from the state party, and leaving him with more than ten times the cash on hand of any Democrat in the race.

Crowley led the Dem-

So the result is not simply a line on a results page.

In the view of this newspaper, a primary is the public act by which voters narrow choices, confer political standing and determine who advances toward governing authority. Certification is where that choice acquires institutional standing.

That distinction is part of electoral accountability.

The public can see who is lead-

Wisconsin and Minnesota

That argument has resonance across the Upper Midwest.

Minnesota and Wisconsin have different electorates, different institutions and different immediate contests.

They should not be collapsed into one political story.

But both states present a continuing question for Democratic politics: how do established institutions, progressive movements and Black and Indigenous political leadership

November is the test

Crowley's primary victory settles who will carry the Democratic argument into the general election. It does not settle what that argument must become.

The primary exposed real differences over political strategy, economic priorities and the kind of coalition Democrats believe can win. Those differences now have to coexist with the practical task of defeating Tiffany.

The appeal sent in Crowley's name reduces that task to a familiar phrase: coalition building.

November will determine whether that message can become a statewide governing majority.

Legend: Kids on the quadriga

Credit: Wikipedia

Minnesota State Capitol Aerial The 1996 Legislature approved a restoration project for the Rathskeller that removed 22 layers of paint over the original stencils, restoring the space to an accurate replica of when it opened in 1905, complete with the original German slogans.

Legend: Easter eggs and Capitol art and architecture mistakes

Be it a six-toed man or a mouse snuck in the edge of a mural, the Capitol’s artwork features a number of “Easter eggs” — a hidden message or image in artwork — which has led to speculation, legend and myth.

One of the most discussed is the alleged two right hands seen in the man in the fourth panel of “Civilization of the Northwest: The American Genius,” found in the northeast corner of the Capitol dome.

Because of the man’s strangely positioned fingers, many have falsely speculated that painter Edward Simmons painted the man with two right hands because of a feud with Capitol architect Cass Gilbert.

Pease attributes the legend to viewers being so far away from the mural to not be able to differentiate the fingers and creating a story to match it.

“It’s a $30,000 mural.

You’re not going to do that,” he said.

Another “mistake” is the columns seen in the east and west wings of the Capitol.

The columns are built of three different segments of Italian marble and legend has it that the orders from Italy were mismatched requiring the column segments to be intermixed rather than uniform.

“The intention was never to have them match,” said Pease, referencing letters from Gilbert to contractors of the Bulter Ryan Company in 1904 fine-tuning how the columns looked just months before the building was set to open.

“There is no mistake, everything was intended and had purpose,” Pease said.

Other Easter eggs like the six-toed man come down to the whimsy of artists. Polydactyly in paintings is a well-documented occurrence often attributed to an artist intentionally making mistakes to illustrate that only God can create perfection.

Another regular misattribution is the belief that the Capitol’s ground floor south entrance was first used as a stable or carriage house.

Instead, the entrance is “extra space created by the slope of the stairs,” due to the Capitol’s placement on a hill.

Given the space’s low ceilings, a carriage house is “the furthest thing from the truth,” Pease said.

Legend: Workers who died during construction were buried in the Capitol

foundation

Six workers died during construction of the Capitol. Five died from falls and one was killed after getting caught in a flywheel of a stone-polishing machine.

These deaths were due to dangerous working conditions and stirred controversy in the state with the June 27, 1903, Minneapolis Journal headline reading, “Deaths Due To Neglect.”

If rumor is to be believed, these workers never left their final job site, being buried in the foundations of the Capitol itself.

This legend is patently false.

“No one is buried here,” Pease said.

In fact, one worker, 25-year-old Felix Arthur, was famously buried in Nelson, Georgia, with a marble grave marker provided by the Georgia Marble Company which supplied marble for the Capitol.

Other workers’ graves can be found in West Bend, Wisconsin, and Maplewood.

This speculation might be, in part, due to the memorial plaque which can be found in the Capitol’s basement.

It memorializes the six workers and was installed in 2017 after a group of Owatonna middle schoolers studying the Capitol’s history pushed for a bill recognizing the workers.

One of the most striking symbols of the Capitol is the golden quadriga perched at the base of the dome.

“The Progress of the State” features four horses representing the forces of nature, earth, wind, fire and water, with two women holding their bridles representing agriculture and industry. Atop the quadriga stands “Prosperity” who holds a horn of plenty and staff inscribed with “Minnesota.”

Tour visitors are treated to a view of the quadriga from the roof, but it is commonly said that parents used to set their children up on the backs of the golden horses.

This myth, Pease said, is entirely true.

The Capitol roof used to be entirely open to the public, with visitors able to approach and touch the gold-leafed horses. When the horses were restored in 1994, “anything that had a surface had some graffiti on it,” Pease said. Since then, tours and the public are no longer able to approach the quadriga, but memory of when that wasn’t the case still exists.

“I’ve had people who are in their 70s say, ‘Oh yeah, I remember my dad let me sit on top of the horses,’” Pease said.

Minnesota Myth and History

It isn’t surprising that rumors and legends cling to the Capitol building and grounds. The intricate details of art, architecture and history “just invite the stories,” Pease said.

Keeping the rumor separate from fact, however, is a continual effort from the Minnesota Historical Society, especially in the internet age where photos and stories can reappear year after year, caught on the tides of algorithm.

For Pease, however, the ever-changing tapestry of Capitol legend is a part of the vitality of the space, because after all, “if it’s a good story, it’s hard not to use it.”

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Primary Results & Voters Guide Who advanced on Aug. 11 — statewide, in Congress, and across the seven-county metro, district by district.

Al McFarlane, Editor-in-Chief

Monday, August 17, 2026

UNOFFICIAL RETURNS. All figures were captured from the Minnesota Secretary of State on Aug. 14, 2026. The State Canvassing Board certifies results Aug. 18, and certified figures may differ. Insight News will update this guide with certified numbers in later editions and online.

GOVERNOR & LT. GOVERNOR

U.S. SENATE

Amy Klobuchar / Ben Schierer GOP Lisa Demuth / Ryan Wilson DFL

89.69 43.44

SECRETARY OF STATE

Peggy Flanagan GOP Michele Tafoya

59.01 52.07

DFL

STATE AUDITOR

Steve Simon GOP Tad Jude

no contest 60.25

DFL

DFL GOP

Zack Filipovich Scott Jensen

no contest 66.74

How to read this guide. Every candidate who appeared on a primary ballot in these races is listed — including the ones nobody ran against. The bar shows each candidate's share of that party's vote, and the number beside it is that share as a percentage. NC marks a party lane that had only one candidate, so voters had no choice to make; the name still appears, because that person is on your November ballot. A dashed box marks a race this edition could not report, and says why.

STATEWIDE

U.S. HOUSE

METRO STATE HOUSE

U.S. Senate

Congressional districts 1–8

Contested districts, seven-county metro

DFL

Peggy Flanagan

411,853

59.0

50,523

90.1

DFL

Angie Craig

274,920

39.4

GOP

Gregory A. Goetzman

2,907

5.2

GOP

Yelena S. Kurdyumova

DFL

Kurt Michael Anderson

4,521

0.7

GOP

Oliver R. Morlan

2,624

4.7

DFL

DFL

Billy Nord

2,896

0.4

DFL

Jake Johnson

47,255

81.7

DFL

George H Kalberer

2,076

0.3

DFL

Alex Eaton

10,616

18.3

DFL

Peter John Murgic

1,661

0.2

43,813

100.0

GOP

Michele Tafoya

211,813

52.1

DFL

Matt Little

41,792

47.2

DFL

GOP

Adam Schwarze

97,470

24.0

DFL

Matthew D. Klein

26,898

30.4

DFL

GOP

Royce White

45,374

11.2

DFL

Kaela Berg

14,743

16.7

GOP

Tom Weiler

24,247

6.0

DFL

Abdi Abdulle

2,323

2.6

DFL

Aisha Elmquist

GOP

Joyce Lacey

7,474

1.8

DFL

Hugh McTavish

2,292

2.6

DFL

Murwo S Mohamed

GOP

Patrick Munro

7,096

1.7

DFL

Christopher Mosel

444

0.5

GOP

Cynthia Gail

5,929

1.5

22,589

55.4

GOP

Bob "Again" Carney Jr.

5,678

1.4

GOP

Ahmad R. (Raafat) Hassan

1,742

0.4

DFL

Amy Klobuchar / Ben Schierer

615,040

89.7

DFL

Kobey J Layne / Paul Ference

39,528

5.8

DFL

Mohammad Wazwaz / Murad Alshlool

9,633

1.4

DFL

Po Vang / Mark Frascone

8,834

1.3

DFL

Ole "Viking" Savior / Ashley "Skol" Johnson

5,491

0.8

Thomas Evenstad / Jason Haarsager

CD3 GOP Tyler Bass

Bill E Gates J.R. / Leah Harris

3,380

0.5

GOP

Lisa Demuth / Ryan Wilson

179,683

43.4

GOP

Mike Lindell / Phillip C Parrish

134,282

32.5

GOP

Kendall Qualls / Brian Nicholson

88,413

21.4

GOP

John Krhin / Dennis Conn

4,663

1.1

Ross Nova / Kerry Busby

2,760

Raul J Estrada / Joe Kincaid

2,411

0.6

GOP

Loner Blue / Andrew Maass

1,393

0.3

Tad Jude

229,804

60.2

GOP

Wendy Phillips

151,599

39.8

DFL

Steve Simon NC

615,129

100.0

State Auditor GOP GOP GOP DFL

Scott Jensen Nate George Will Finn

27,428

Zack Filipovich NC

592,251

1,822

48.8

DFL

Wynfred Russell

1,561

41.8

DFL

Richard A. Klatte

351

9.4

1,228

100.0

Aida Márquez Simula

4,439

67.5

Justice Spriggs

2,133

32.5

1,867

100.0

5,601

92.7

39B GOP KT Jacobs NC

40A GOP Luis Withrow NC

439

7.3

54B GOP Natalie Barnes

2,486

66.7

Chris Steward

1,244

33.4

Christopher Kartschoke NC

3,157

100.0

1,856

100.0

GOP

GOP

18,165

44.6

DFL

Kelly Morrison NC

86,217

100.0

20,628

72.6

DFL

Hunter Cantrell

4,788

16.9

DFL

DFL

55B GOP Todd Buchwald NC

3,051

61.1

Adam Silkey

674

13.5

GOP

Paul Xiong

GOP

Gene Rechtzigel

2,988

10.5

DFL

Yusuf Haji

646

12.9

DFL

Betty McCollum

95,811

85.8

DFL

Kriystauhl Fitchett

619

12.4

DFL

Aswar Rahman

15,869

14.2

60B DFL

Mohamud Noor

3,381

84.6

7,777

52.2

DFL

614

15.4

Sebastian Ellefson

3,696

58.7

Elena Mena

2,602

41.3

Abdurrahman Mahmud

3,902

26.2

65B DFL

Angie Windhauser

2,315

15.5

DFL

GOP

Abbey Zieska

915

6.1

DFL

Ilhan Omar

122,640

80.7

METRO COUNTY RACES

DFL

Julie Trang Le

10,201

6.7

DFL

Latonya T. Reeves

9,131

6.0

Anoka · Carver · Dakota · Hennepin · Ramsey · Scott · Washington

DFL

Nate Schluter

8,016

5.3

DFL

Abena A. McKenzie

1,961

1.3

CD6 GOP Tom Emmer

53,087

80.9

GOP

Mike Foley

10,022

15.3

GOP

Chris Corey

2,502

3.8

DFL

Doug Chapin NC

ANOKA · COMMISSIONER 3

Jeff Reinert

4,137

47.2

Melissa "Mel" Lawlis

3,775

43.1

855

9.8

Kevin Ryan ANOKA · COMMISSIONER 4

48,394

100.0

Jerry Koch

3,413

44.3

CD7 GOP Michelle Fischbach NC

69,436

100.0

Jennifer (Jenny) Geisler

3,134

40.7

DFL

Erik Osberg

27,758

65.7

Michael Nordstrom

1,151

14.9

DFL

Steve Carlson

14,481

34.3

CD8 GOP Pete Stauber

58,139

86.4

26.2

101,460

9.8

Huldah Momanyi-Hiltsley

Dalia Al-Aqidi

66.7

258,611

90.2

106

GOP

Secretary of State GOP

979

GOP

0.7

GOP

38A GOP Charlie Kistler

Quentin Wittrock

CD5 GOP John Nagel

0.6

3,843

DFL

GOP

CD2 GOP Eric Pratt NC

CD4 GOP Paul Wikstrom

Governor and Lieutenant Governor

DFL

CD1 GOP Brad Finstad

7.1

CARVER · SHERIFF

Jessica Heger

6,905

36.7

GOP

Anthony Hamilton

9,121

13.6

Patrick Barry

4,454

23.7

DFL

Trina Swanson

54,413

77.2

Matt Steen

4,121

21.9

DFL

Luke Gulbranson

11,888

16.9

Darrell Huggett

1,952

10.4

DFL

John Munter

4,149

5.9

Adam Moore

1,368

7.3

Mary Liz Holberg

4,395

41.4

Jacob Borealis

2,338

22.0

100.0

Brian "Baldy" Wheeler

1,957

18.4

84.2

Maggie Droen

1,921

18.1

Irene Fernando

16,500

55.3

Sharon El-Amin

6,280

21.1

Viviana Salazar

4,559

15.3

Makeda Zulu

2,498

8.4

100.0

DAKOTA · COMMISSIONER 6

METRO STATE SENATE

State Auditor source note: the Aug. 14 downloadable results showed full precinct reporting but lagged the Secretary of State portal slightly.

Contested districts, seven-county metro NOT AVAILABLE

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Attorney General. The return file available at press time was incomplete. No totals, percentages, leaders or standings are published in this edition.

GOP DFL

MINNEAPOLIS SCHOOL BOARD

38

At large — two seats 49,254

38.6

Collin Beachy

43,276

34.0

Stephanie Johnson

18,797

14.8

Michael Baskins

9,578

7.5

Clifton "CJ" Henderson

6,551

5.1

44

46

50

Bobby Joe Champion

NC

Senate District 59

Esther Agbaje

Austin Chanen

1,593

15.8

Brad Olson NC

1,751

100.0

DFL

Susan Pha

5,623

74.9

GOP

NOT IN THIS EDITION

56

Municipal races. Not available in the compiled results before press time. They will follow in a later edition.

NOT AVAILABLE

The full roster of uncontested metro seats. A complete list was not available for this edition. The remaining inventory will follow in later coverage.

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Tuesday, Aug. 18 — The State Canvassing Board meets to certify these results. Totals and percentages can change between now and then.

After certification — A recount may be requested in close races. Where one is completed, the official results are amended to reflect it.

November — The candidates listed here, including those who had no primary opponent, are the ones your general-election ballot will be built from.

Check your own district and current returns at electionresults.sos.mn.gov

100.0

4,596

51.9

Teresa Miller

4,260

48.1

GOP

Kayla Wright NC

2,490

100.0

DFL

Ron Latz

10,876

59.8

Lynette Lungay Dumalag

7,321

40.2

GOP

Owen Michaelson NC

4,214

100.0

DFL

Karla Hult

9,472

58.9

DFL

Nelly Korman

3,467

21.6

DFL

John McClellan

2,103

13.1

DFL

Amal Ibrahim

1,046

6.5

GOP

Raymond David Petersen Julida Alter Erin Maye Quade NC

2,938 2,013 10,270

59.3 40.7 100.0

DFL

Omar Fateh

12,827

78.3

DFL

Jeanelle Austin

2,355

14.4

DFL

Brenda Short

GOP

Rocco NC

DFL

WHAT HAPPENS NEXT

3,440

25.1

Sam Rosemark

DFL

62

James Tacheny NC

1,885

DFL

GOP

NOT AVAILABLE

Nehemiah Garley

DFL

NC

House District 59B

8,468

GOP

DFL

ON THE BALLOT, NO PRIMARY CONTEST

Kristy Janigo

5,809

DFL

DFL

Christin Crabtree

Brady Hoag NC

DFL

Robyn Gulley Natasha Bennett

1,202

7.3

960

100.0

7,652 3,173

70.7

HENNEPIN · COMMISSIONER 2

HENNEPIN · COMMISSIONER 3

Marion Greene

24,711

59.4

Abdihakim Arabow Ibrahim

4,398

10.6

Anthony Walsh

4,121

9.9

Josh Bassais

3,849

9.3

Kevin Chavis

3,731

9.0

776

1.9

Cedrick Frazier

87,447

36.0

Anders Folk

55,610

22.9

Diane M. Krenz

46,150

19.0

Hao Nguyen

36,424

15.0

Matt Pelikan

17,648

7.2

Anthony Abousweid HENNEPIN · COUNTY ATTORNEY

HENNEPIN · PARK COMMISSIONER 1

Marge Beard

13,328

52.9

Declan McCrory

4,739

18.8

Joey Rodriguez

4,021

16.0

Melvin A. Knapton

3,086

12.3

María Isa Pérez-Vega

8,004

47.1

Rebecca Noecker

7,786

45.8

Charles S Barklind

1,215

7.1

Drew Christensen

2,428

44.5

Bob Coughlen

1,138

20.9

Christine Kelly

1,002

18.4

Gabriela Kroetch

884

16.2

Ron Hocevar

9,992

46.2

Allen Andersen

7,097

32.8

Todd Zettler

4,523

20.9

RAMSEY · COMMISSIONER 5 29.3

SCOTT · COMMISSIONER 5

SCOTT · COUNTY ATTORNEY

WASHINGTON · SHERIFF

Brian R. Mueller

31,012

68.5

Jeremy Bolen

7,983

17.6

Henry Mathia

6,263

13.8

Editor's note: Results remain unofficial. Figures were captured Aug. 14, 2026, and certification follows Aug. 18. Insight News will update this guide with certified figures in later editions and online.

Source. Minnesota Secretary of State, 2026 State Primary results, retrieved Aug. 14, 2026. Unofficial results used for statewide, congressional, legislative, metro county and Minneapolis school-board tables. The Attorney General return available at press time was incomplete and is not published; the downloadable State Auditor record lagged the portal slightly. · Insight News · Marcus Garvey House, 1815 Bryant Ave N, Minneapolis MN 55411 · Inform. Instruct. Inspire. · This article was produced with AI assistance.

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By W.D. Foster-Graham Book Review Editor

I cannot stress enough about the importance of us as people of African descent sharing our stories, especially in a climate where attempts are made to erase them. We are a people of strength, resilience, and faith.

Whether it be fiction or nonfiction, our voices must not only be heard, but they must take up space.

The following is a personal story of an experience that is shared by many Black women, as well as women in general: losing custody of

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At the Black Business Week Street Mall at the Capri Theater in Minneapolis recently, I witnessed Ms. Currie as she shared her story with attendees of the event while selling her book, and her story touched hearts of those who stopped by.

Lost Without Custody of My Children and Trying to Invoke Change is available through Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and Xulon Press (www. xulonpress.com).

Thank you, Senoise, for a story of hope, of humanity, of empowerment, and a refusal to give up.

Without Custody of My Children and Trying to Invoke Change

one’s children. Senoise Currie’s Lost Without Custody of My Children and Trying to Invoke Change, is such a story.

Currie’s story hits home with the heartbreak and pain of losing custody of her three children and the legal nightmare in her quest to regain that custody, given that the case is in Georgia and she is living in Minnesota. It also tells a story of strength, learning from one’s

mistakes and not allowing them to define her, and above all, a faith journey.

Losing custody of her children was losing part of herself, and her children have felt the loss of being separated from her. The court system had failed her. However, she acknowledges and takes accountability for the mistakes she made in her life, and in her story she provides an empowering message

Media ownership, surveillance and AI governance measure Black community power Technology policy is also policy about power: who controls information, who can watch whom, who sets the rules for emerging systems and who receives the benefits or bears the costs of new infrastructure.

The Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies brought those questions together in its Aug. 13 technology briefing, Inside Black Policy: Tech, connecting federal action on broadcast ownership, automated surveillance, artificial intelligence, social media regulation and data centers to Black communities’ ability to exercise democratic power and protect community resources.

FCC ownership change raises questions about local control

The Joint Center briefing reports that the Federal Communications Commission has eliminated the national television ownership cap, a decades-old rule that generally prevented a single broadcast company from reaching more than 39 percent of U.S. television households.

The FCC’s Republican majority argued that the restriction no longer reflects a marketplace in which local broadcasters compete with cable networks, streaming platforms, social media and other digital sources for audiences and advertising revenue.

The change could enable greater consolidation as broadcasters face economic pressure. For Black communities, the Joint Center frames the issue more broadly: local television remains part of the democratic infrastructure through which communities receive information about elections, schools, public safety, economic development and local government.

Joint Center Senior Advisor and Technology Policy Director Danielle A. Davis Canty has examined what consolidation could mean for local news and representation on The Miseducation of Technology podcast. In her State of Black America essay, “Who Decides What Communities Know?

Local Television Consolidation and Black Democratic Participation,” published July 23, Canty argues that consolidation is not merely an economic or efficiency question. It is a question of whether communities — Black communities in particular — remain visible enough to advocate for their own interests and exercise power in a democracy.

Flock cameras expand the reach of vehicle surveillance

That question of institutional power extends from media ownership to surveillance.

Flock Safety says

nearly 100,000 of its automated license plate reader cameras operate across more than 6,000 communities in 49 states, in partnership with more than 5,000 law enforcement agencies. Unlike traditional license plate readers, which are used to search for a specific vehicle, Flock cameras continuously collect information about every vehicle that passes them.

Using artificial intelligence, the system can create what the briefing describes as a “vehicle fingerprint,” including a license plate, make, model, color and distinguishing features such as bumper stickers and roof racks.

Law enforcement can search the collected information to identify or track vehicles. DeFlock, a crowdsourced mapping project, plots reported camera locations.

Supporters say the technology can help police investigate and solve crimes. Critics warn that collecting searchable information about millions of vehicles, including vehicles belonging to people not suspected of crimes, creates privacy and civil-liberties concerns.

For Black communities, the Joint Center places those concerns in the context of longstanding disparities in policing and surveillance. The policy questions include who can access the information, how long it is retained, when it can be searched or shared across jurisdictions and what oversight governs its use.

Lawmakers seek answers about autonomous AI

Artificial intelligence raises a related question: what happens when powerful systems act beyond intended boundaries?

Reps. Greg Casar of Texas and Doris Matsui of California are leading a group of House Democrats seeking information from OpenAI and Anthropic about cybersecurity incidents in which the companies’ AI models allegedly gained unauthorized access to outside systems. Twenty-nine House Democrats signed the letter to OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman and 22 signed the letter to Anthropic chief executive Dario Amodei, with additional information requested by Aug. 24.

According to the Joint Center briefing, OpenAI disclosed that during security testing an AI agent spent several days autonomously conducting unsanctioned cyberattacks and accessed systems belonging to the AI platform Hugging Face.

Anthropic disclosed incidents in which its Claude models gained unauthorized internet access and hacked three companies during cybersecurity evaluations. Lawmakers warned of potentially serious national-se-

Federal decisions on broadcast ownership, vehicle surveillance, autonomous AI, social media oversight and data centers are shaping questions of representation, privacy and resource equity.

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curity implications and asked how the breaches occurred and what safeguards failed. Neither company’s response to the letters appears in the material reviewed for this article.

The emerging governance question is responsibility: what safety testing is required before advanced AI agents are deployed, how serious security incidents are disclosed, and who bears responsibility when autonomous systems operate outside intended limits.

Poll finds bipartisan support for greater social media oversight

Public concern about technology governance also appears in attitudes toward social media.

A Reuters/Ipsos poll of 4,505 U.S. adults found that 61 percent supported additional government oversight of social media companies. Support crossed party lines: 71 percent of Democrats, 62 percent of Republicans and 52 percent of independents favored greater oversight.

The poll asked broadly about government oversight rather than particular proposals. The Joint Center places the findings alongside the Kids Over Clicks proposal released in June by Project 2029, a Democratic policy initiative, which calls for stronger privacy protections for children and teenagers and would prohibit social media use for children under 16.

coming data centers can benefit from the money and tax revenue they generate, and that the revenue could help lower taxes. In a Punchbowl News interview, he called Texas’ opposition a “mistake.” His comments followed Gov. Greg Abbott’s call for a temporary moratorium on new data center connections while state regulators audit whether proposed projects comply with requirements governing the state’s electric grid.

The Joint Center describes the policy tension as a balance between economic investment and demands on electricity, water, land and other community resources. Canty has examined the issue in ESSENCE and on the podcast, including how communities can bear environmental and energy

Data center growth brings benefits and burdens into focus

Infrastructure brings the same question about power and resources into physical communities.

President Trump has argued that communities wel-

costs from infrastructure powering AI without receiving a proportional share of the economic benefits.

Joint Center recognizes Wenah for digital rights work

The Joint Center also recognized Julie M. Wenah, chairwoman of the Digital Civil Rights Coalition, a global product leader, digital civil rights lawyer, tech executive and award-winning filmmaker, as a “Voice with Vision” for work helping shape an inclusive digital ecosystem globally.

Across these debates, the technology changes but the governing question remains recognizable. Ownership determines who controls institutions that tell community stories. Surveillance rules determine who

can collect and search information about people’s movements.

AI governance determines accountability when autonomous systems cross boundaries.

Platform regulation determines what protections govern digital participation. Infrastructure policy determines how benefits and burdens are distributed.

Taken together, the briefing presents technology governance as an arena of democratic participation. For Black communities, the measure is not simply whether technology advances, but whether communities retain voice, privacy, accountability and a fair share of the resources that technological development creates and consumes.

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Insight 2 Health Flawed studies linking hormone therapy to breast cancer made doctors reluctant to prescribe it for menopause relief Versha Pleasant Clinical Assistant Professor; Director, Cancer Genetics & Breast Health, University of Michigan Although menopause is not a new phenomenon by any means, the past few years of what some have called the “menopause moment” have brought it to the forefront of national conversation.

One form of treatment, called menopausal hormone therapy, can address several bothersome symptoms, particularly hot flashes, and can improve quality of life for some patients. It can also provide an added layer of heart health and bone protection for some.

Despite these benefits, prescriptions steeply declined after the Women’s Health Initiative – the largest and longest-running study on women’s health in the U.S. since the early 1990s – found an increased risk of breast cancer among those on menopausal hormone therapy. This created substantial fear around using hormone therapy among providers and patients alike.

However, inconsistencies and biases in the study’s findings have arisen over the years, leading researchers to scrutinize the data more closely. Furthermore, the Food and Drug Administration began removing the black box warnings – which signal serious health risks – on hormone therapy for menopause in November 2025.

What does this mean for the 1-in-8 women who will be diagnosed with breast cancer in their lifetime?

The FDA’s change in safety warnings highlights a gray zone on who would benefit from menopausal hormone therapy and which formulations carry the lowest risk. As a gynecologist who specializes in breast cancer care, I believe these new guidelines emphasize the need to tailor treatment to each individual – including breast cancer survivors for whom menopausal hormone therapy has historically been avoided.

Menopause and breast cancer survivors

Breast cancer is the most commonly diagnosed cancer among women in the United States.

Breast cancer diagnoses are increasing among women under 50, with a 1.4% increase each year between 2012 and 2021.

Breast cancer survivors may suffer from symptoms of naturally occurring menopause due to their chronological age. However, they may also be experiencing menopausal symptoms as a result of breast cancer treatments. For younger survivors, breast cancer treatments could induce menopause by temporarily or permanently disrupting ovarian function.

Sometimes the ovaries may be removed for those at increased risk for ovarian cancer.

These effects can impair or disable the body’s ability to produce hormones like estrogen, which increases a young breast cancer survivor’s risk of cardiovascular disease and osteoporosis.

Menopausal hormone therapy could mitigate the health risks that young breast cancer survivors face. Estrogen-containing therapies are

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linked to not only decreased cardiovascular and all-cause mortality among younger patients, but also to improved quality of life. They are also the most effective treatment for hot flashes, one of the most bothersome symptoms of menopause.

Breast cancer survivors represent a significant portion of the population who could benefit from menopausal hormone therapy. However, healthcare providers often avoid this treatment due to a perception that it would increase a breast cancer patient’s risk of recurrence.

But the research is conflicting.

Deconstructing the data

Some of the fear surrounding menopausal hormone therapy was shaped by findings from the Women’s Health Initiative study, which researchers have since critiqued for its limitations.

In particular, while the study did find that people taking menopausal hormone therapy had an elevated risk of breast cancer, this was among a group of older participants between ages 50 to 79. This led to the timing hypothesis, which proposes that some groups may experience more benefit and less risk from menopausal hormone therapy based on their age.

Results also differed by treatment formulation. The most commonly used version of progesterone used today is safer than the version used in the Women’s Health Imitative.

Breast cancer risk increased among those using estrogen plus progesterone, but was not increased among those taking estrogen alone.

The Women’s Health Initiative also did not specifically look at how menopausal hormone therapy affected cancer risk in breast cancer survivors.

Deconstructing even more data

Another landmark study called “Hormone Replacement Therapy After Breast Cancer – Is It Safe?,” or HABITS, evaluated the safety of menopausal hormone therapy for those previously diagnosed with breast cancer. The study ended early in 2003, after 26 out of 219 women in the group receiving menopausal hormone therapy developed breast cancer, in comparison with the 8 of 215 women who did not receive hormone therapy.

Much like the Women’s Health Initiative, the HABITS trial – along with a similar study called the Stockholm Trial – gained much attention by suggesting that menopausal hormone therapy was unacceptably risky for breast cancer survivors.

However, researchers have likewise criticized the HABITS trial for possible discrepancies in the treatment formulations given to patients.

Additionally, the breast cancer characteristics of some participants were unknown, which may have affected the data.

A 10-year follow-up of the trial ultimately revealed no significant difference in breast cancer recurrence between survivors who did or did not receive menopausal hormone therapy. Both the HABITS and Stockholm trials also did not show an increased death rate related to menopausal hormone therapy among breast cancer survivors.

The findings suggest that the increased recurrences seen in the HABITS trial may have been due to higher progesterone exposure. Ultimately, because the studies were terminated early, no definitive conclusions can be made.

Conflicting research

Numerous other studies have produced variable results.

A smaller clinical trial did not show significantly increased breast cancer risk in survivors with estrogen-negative tumors who were receiving only estrogen over a five-year period.

A study pooling data from four clinical trials showed a significantly increased risk of recurrence for survivors with hormone receptor-positive tumors who were receiving estrogen and progesterone, but did not see an increased risk for those with hormone-negative tumors.

There are also more than 20 studies published over the past several decades that found no significant increased risk of new breast cancer activity, recurrences or death for survivors taking menopausal hormone therapy. Some of these studies even suggest a decreased risk of breast cancer with certain formulations of menopausal hormone therapy.

But these studies have not received the same amount of attention and consideration.

The Women’s Health Initiative and the HABITS trial were both larger randomized trials, which are gold standards in research.

However, the limitations of these trials and the conflicting data of other studies create challenges in how to interpret these findings.

Personalized care for breast cancer survivors

Removing the black box warning on menopausal hormone therapy does not mean it is safe or appropriate for every patient at any age. Rather, it encourag-

es a conversation between the patient and healthcare provider about their eligibility and individual risks.

Research has suggested that different risk factors may play a role in breast cancer risk, although it is unclear how each factor ultimately interacts with one another. Factors such as age, breast cancer subtype and hormone therapy formulation could affect someone’s overall risk in different ways.

Given this complexity, a risk-benefit analysis and shared decision-making on treatment could offer a more practical and holistic approach to if, when and under what conditions breast cancer survivors could be eligible for menopausal hormone therapy.

Precision medicine, which personalizes medicine and tailors care to the individual, has become the mainstay of healthcare. I believe the removal of the black box warning on menopausal hormone therapy represents an important opportunity to continue improving holistic, personalized care for breast cancer survivors.

Disclosure statement She is owner of and consultant for Pleasant Consulting, LLC, which provides lectures and talks on cancer genetics, breast cancer risk, and gynecologic care of breast cancer survivors.

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Trump’s ‘forever’ tariffs are kicking in for the long haul – and US consumers are footing the bill

By Kent Jones Professor Emeritus of Economics, Babson College

President Donald Trump’s tariff announcements no longer cause the market gyrations that they did in 2025. But their sticker shock for American consumers is becoming increasingly clear – just as economic sentiment is souring ahead of the November 2026 midterm elections.

Many business groups had hoped that the tariff wars would end in February, when the Supreme Court overturned Trump’s emergency tariffs.

They got a rude awakening five months later, however, when Trump announced a raft of new import taxes to replace the levies that were struck down.

Covering nearly all U.S. imports, the advantage of these tariffs in the Trump administration’s view is that they’re more firmly based on existing U.S. trade law, beyond the reach of the Supreme Court’s review. And Trump has said he envisions enacting many more of these so-called trade law tariffs.

As a trade economist who has been following the tariff wars, I believe that the longer these import taxes are in place, the more the consumers will bear their burden. The 2025 “Liberation Day” tariffs that the Supreme Court struck down, as well as other levies Trump announced after the February ruling, turned out to be temporary.

But the bulk of the new levies are designed to be permanent.

That means that for

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Trump Auto Tariffs Announcement in the Oval Office consumers, the total cost burden is likely to increase even if the tariff rates don’t change – because the new tariffs will be stacked on older ones.

The cost squeeze

On one level, Trump’s tariff fixation is a mystery. Tariffs continue to be unpopular, and it’s unclear why Trump would double down on them before midterm elections when his approval ratings, including on the economy, are so low.

But on another level, Trump’s embrace of tariffs can be understood as an instrument of personal power. He has long viewed them as tools for negotiating leverage, and he recently declared that U.S. tariffs “aren’t high enough.” The president also has deflected criticism of their impact on consumer prices by claiming erroneously that foreigners pay for them.

The simple fact is that U.S. tariff invoices issued by the Treasury Department are sent to the U.S. businesses that import the foreign products. These

companies may try to absorb some of the cost to protect their market share and work through existing inventory. But eventually, the squeeze will compel them to pass most of that extra tax onto U.S. consumers – no matter which foreign countries are targeted.

And now that tariffs have had time to work through the economy, researchers have found an impact on prices. The Dallas Federal Reserve recently estimated that the Fed’s preferred inflation measure would have risen without tariffs at an annual rate of 2.3% in March, instead of its actual 3.2%.

Meanwhile, an analysis by the Yale Budget Lab concluded that consumers are paying anywhere from half to the entire cost of the levies through higher prices, depending on the goods.

Tariffs upon tariffs

Trump based his July tariff announcements on three different legal justifications: a country’s unfair trade practices, like forced labor, which is known

as Section 301; national security protection, or Section 232; and discrimination against U.S. imports, or Section 338. The last is a trade war tariff dating to the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act of 1930.

The new Section 301 tariff rates, which are global, currently range from 10% to 12.5%, but they could go up at the president’s discretion.

Section 301 has also opened the door to new country-specific tariffs targeted at Brazil, at 25%, while Section 338 was cited to slap an extra 50% import tax on certain Canadian goods. In addition, Trump has imposed levies ranging from 25% to 50% for specific products, covering steel, aluminum, automobiles, copper, timber, lumber and pharmaceuticals.

Yet more new tariffs are planned for wind turbines, personal protective and medical equipment, robotics, machinery and coal, as well as to combat foreign excess production capacity and support U.S. produc-

tion of foreign generic prescription drugs.

With so many tariffs in the mix, consumers will be even more squeezed because many of these taxes will be stacked on top of one another.

For example, Section 301 tariffs will be applied on top of the older legacy tariffs that date back to World Trade Organization rules setting a baseline Most Favored Nation rate, as well as on top of each other.

So if a country ends up facing tariffs based on forced labor violations as well as excess capacity, each at 10%, on top of a uniform Most Favored Nation rate of 3%, the total rate on all products from that supplying country would be 23%.

And this levy will be paid by U.S. consumers, not foreigners.

Pushback from the states

Trump is especially interested in Section 301, which is meant to remedy foreign trade practices that are discriminatory, unfair or unreasonable, and that burden U.S. commerce. It sets no limit on tariff rates and lets the president discriminate among exporting countries. Furthermore, federal courts have typically given the president broad discretion in implementing the statute.

Trump chose to use this measure to punish virtually all U.S. trading partners on grounds that they failed to prevent imports into their markets that were made with forced labor. His administration based the decision on its own investigation that determined the U.S. is the only country that prevents forced labor imports.

These tariffs were set

at 12.5% for countries without any formal prohibition on forced labor imports, and 10% for all other countries with such a prohibition. These tariffs are similar in scope and impact to the earlier Liberation Day tariffs.

Twenty-five U.S. states then challenged these levies at the U.S. Court of International Trade, using similar reasoning as the Supreme Court when it struck down the emergency tariffs on grounds that they were an unconstitutional tax on U.S. consumers. Citing the affordability burden, the lawsuit claims that the Section 301 tariffs do the same thing.

Nor did the administration offer any indication of how the tariffs were calculated and when, if ever, they would be removed.

The lawsuit further alleges that the new tariffs go far beyond the original purpose of Section 301, which is to open specific markets to U.S. exports through negotiated policy reforms, not to impose global tariffs with no clear goal in sight.

Whether this legal challenge will succeed depends in part on whether judges will continue to defer to the president on these particular levies, no matter how much they deviate from previous practice. And I believe Trump is counting on it.

Disclosure statement Kent Jones does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their academic appointment.

Staying hopeful and true to oneself is a lesson these 5 kids books offer to kindergartners and other children and a “private boat for Max.” He sails off through “days and weeks and in and out of years” before he reaches a tropical island where the wild things live.

There, Max discovers his own power to command the wild things, and a “wild rumpus,” or a party with his new friends, begins. The book offers the tempting possibility that children have wonderful, exciting things in store for them in unknown experiences.

By Liz Rosenberg Professor of English, General Literature and Rhetoric, Binghamton University, State University of New York

What does a child need to prepare themselves for kindergarten? I’m not talking about a new water bottle and a backpack, though certainly those come in handy.

I mean what it takes to try to make new friends, be brave, resilient, inventive and hopeful – no small tasks for anyone.

I am a children’s book writer and have been a professor of children’s literature and creative writing for more than 40 years. So you can guess that my answer to this question about school readiness involves books.

Reading lets children test out challenging, or frightening, situations in their imaginations.

It offers a path out of anxiety and into joy and adventure.

C. S. Lewis, author of the 1950 children’s book “The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe,” reminds people that a reader “does not despise real woods because he has read of enchanted woods: the reading makes all real woods a little enchanted.”

Kindergarten is often an enchanted place, one which many children vividly remember all their lives. But it can seem scary to some children, simply because it is so new.

Here are a few important ideas that can fortify children who are entering this unknown land – as told through five engaging books that may

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help new students prepare for their journey ahead.

1. Hope and persistence pay off

Some of the happiest children are those who maintain a sense of hopefulness and possibility.

Children see these traits at play in Ruth Krauss’ 1945 classic picture book, “The Carrot Seed.” In it, an unnamed little boy plants, weeds, waters and then patiently watches over his carrot seed for a very, very long time. Doubters surround him.

His mother said, ‘I’m afraid it won’t come up.’

And his big brother says, ‘It won’t come up.’

What happens in the end will astonish and delight all readers – though it doesn’t faze the boy who always believed.

2. A new adventure is excitingIf you don’t think heading off to school for the first time is a wild adventure, you’re forgetting something.

The vivid 1963 children’s book “Where the Wild Things Are,” written by Maurice Sendak, brings readers into an unruly

night where young Max puts on his wolf suit “and makes mischief of one kind and another” until his exhausted mother

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By Frank Erickson Commentary The editorial in the July 27 edition about Trump's attacks upon Iran becoming a "forever war", by two professors from the University of London, does nothing but legitimize and promote more fake "war" starting. And these two individuals are es-

Books From 9 The wild things – fictional monsters Sendak has said were based on his own family members – roll their terrible eyes, gnash their teeth and show their terrible claws. But Max stands his ground and becomes king of them all. At the story’s end, Max makes it home just in time to discover that his dinner is still warm, and waiting for him in his room.

The book also offers comfort both for young children and parents who might be anxious about those first few morning drop-offs. At the end of the school day, our children do return, happy to be where someone loves them “best of all.”

3. School might be tough, but so are you

Frey From 5 through 2025 and that the council funded it again for 2026. The housing authority has received nine referrals, five households are in intake, and the first two vouchers were issued the day she wrote.

The formal budget calendar gives residents sever-

Black America From 4 millions. He then writes about building his own media network and discovering a different relationship with his audience.

His argument is not simply about journalism.

It is about control.

There is a difference between having access to a platform and owning one.

There is a difference between being visible and having power over the conditions of your visibility.

A worker can have a job without owning anything.

A citizen can have rights without possessing the resources to enforce them.

A journalist can have an audience without controlling the institution that determines whether that audience can still hear him tomorrow.

Communities From 4 pendent voices serving communities across the country.

Those concerns intensified when the FCC Media Bureau waived a cap that had historically limited station owners from reaching more than 39 percent of American households.

As a result, the transaction created a company that would eventually own or operate 265 television stations across 44 states and the District of Columbia, reaching approximately 80 percent of American television households. (The acquisition was approved and completed, however ongoing litigation has temporarily prevented Nexstar from fully integrating TEGNA’s operations). Whatever one’s position on the acquisition, the debate raises a broader question at the heart of media ownership policy: how much influence over local information should be concentrated in the hands of

teemed members of academia, they should know better.

We need to start moving faster when it comes to debunking these "wars" for the corrupt nonsense that they are, it is 2026, this has all become too absurd.

In discussing U.S. attacks upon transport infrastructure and bridges, the editorial authors said that these type of military strikes "raise questions

about whether some attacks could violate international humanitarian law and, depending on the circumstances, amount to war crimes."

Their approach means that Trump could do his "war" of aggression legally, within "international law", if the U.S. avoids doing "war crimes" — their approach is nonsense and it legitimizes "war" starting.

How does the U.S. ac-

cess "international law" to do its "war" aggression (upon people that were not attacking the United States) in a legal manner?

How does Trump get the right to "war" upon Iranians — as long as he doesn't do "war" crimes?

Using this approach, Japan attacking Pearl Harbor in 1941 was legal and legitimate, and was not a "war crime", because Japan hit "military targets", which is lawful "war" be-

After raising a son and a daughter 14 years apart, I realized that every child is uniquely themselves. I raised one “wild thing” who play-acted and roared his way through obstacles. And one “Brave Irene,” who quietly and calmly got the job done.

Author and illustrator William Steig’s 1986 book brings us into the humble cottage of Irene and her seamstress mother, who has finally finished a hand-sewn ballgown for a duchess to wear at an upcoming ball. But Irene’s mom suddenly becomes sick and can’t deliver the dress herself.

Irene doesn’t let a raging snowstorm stop her from bringing the duchess her new gown.

She trudges sideways, backward, into deep snowdrifts and a howling wind that rips the box open.

The ball gown flounced out and went waltzing through the powdered air with

tissue-paper attendants.

Brave Irene wrestles the dress and rides the box downhill like a sled in order to reach the duchess, who is anxiously waiting for her gown.

Irene can do the hard things and get through whatever tribulations get thrown her way.

She also offers young readers a reminder that true bravery is trying your best to help people you love when they need it.

sad.

All children deal with anger. A favorite toy breaks – or worse yet, gets broken by somebody else. And since those moments are inevitable, most people learn how to cope as they grow.

In Cori Doerrfeld’s 2018 children’s book “The Rabbit Listened,” a bird knocks down the building-block masterpiece that the young protagonist Taylor created.

Taylor is furious and

5. You can’t go wrong with being yourself

al opportunities to follow what happens next. The Budget Committee’s next scheduled meeting is Aug. 24 at 1:30 p.m. The Board of Estimate and Taxation has a public hearing on maximum levies scheduled for Sept.

9 at 5:05 p.m., followed by an expected Sept. 23 vote.

Council information distributed Aug. 14 said approximately three Budget Committee public hearings would also be held, with dates and times

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Donald J. Trump havior defined by international law. How many Americans see

the Pearl Harbor attack as within the law?

Abby Hanlon’s “Dory Fantasmagory” series, the first book published in 2014, brings readers into the otherworldly imagination of young Dory.

Dory, who is often called Rascal by her family and friends, is a new-age “Ramona the Pest,” the classic chapter-book kindergarten heroine.

The Dory series is about sur-

viving the ups and downs of childhood, on steroids. Dory, who is the baby of her three-kid family, invents friends, villains and a bearded fairy godmother for company.

Hanlon’s whimsical illustrations are drawn as a brilliant child might create them.

Many of Hanlon’s best jokes are visual, providing hilarious reading for lap-sitters and early readers.

In 2015’s “Dory Fantasmagory: The Real True Friend,” our heroine sets off for school, her backpack stuffed with Dad’s dirty laundry, “extra salami” and lemon juice.

Her siblings block the door. Her big sister warns, “You. Won’t.

Have. Any. Friends.”

“The most important thing for you to remember is, DON’T BE YOURSELF. Can you do that?”

Of course not. Nor should anyone ever have to.

Dory blends her very

imaginary and very real worlds together, and emerges with the true friendships she deserves – both with children at school and with characters in her own mind. Young readers rooting for Dory, and laughing alongside her, will see that it’s OK to have full conversations with an imaginary witch named Mrs. Gobble Gracker, or bark like a dog, if the moment moves you. In fact, other children may well want to play along.

It’s sometimes fun to be imaginative, silly and uniquely yourself – and children can be true to themselves, including at school.

Disclosure statement Liz Rosenberg does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their academic appointment.

still to be announced. The final public hearing, the Truth in Taxation Hearing, is expected Dec. 15. The council is expected to vote on adoption after that hearing.

The figures and calendar reported here come from council communications describing the mayor’s proposal and the city’s budget process.

The underlying mayoral budget document, council agenda and ordinance files were not

independently reviewed for this report, so claims drawn from those communications are attributed accordingly.

The proposed Minneapolis levy increase should not be treated as directly comparable to Saint Paul’s proposed levy percentage. The available material does not establish that the cities’ percentages use comparable bases, valuations or funding structures.

Resident and commu-

nity testimony was not available in the material used for this report.

This first installment is intentionally narrower than the full City Hall reporting planned for the budget season.

Individual ward reports have been deferred to a later installment. That includes reporting from Budget Committee Vice Chair Elizabeth Shaffer, whose ward newsletter was identified but was not included in this re-

port.

Read together, Ellison, Moore and Lemon are describing different parts of the same problem.

The question is whether America’s promises come with pathways sturdy enough to make them real.

That is what makes the Urban League’s three imperatives in this report so important: Defeat Poverty. Defend Democracy. Demand Diversity.

Those are not separate battles.

Economic exclusion affects political power.

Political exclusion shapes economic opportunity.

Discrimination affects who gets hired, who receives capital, who owns property, who gets heard and who can turn to institutions for protection.

The report is asking us to look at the architecture connecting all of those things.

That is especially important as America begins

another technological and economic transformation.

The Urban League points to artificial intelligence, clean energy, advanced manufacturing and biomedical technology as industries that will shape the next economy. It argues that Black workers and entrepreneurs cannot be brought into those industries after the rules, ownership structures and pathways have already been established.

That struck me.

So did something else.

As I read essays from governors, senators, attorneys, scholars, journalists and civil rights leaders whose work I respect, I found myself thinking about the people who will live longest with the decisions being made now.

Young Black Americans appear throughout the report as students, workers, voters, entrepreneurs and members of the future economy.

I hope we are also increasingly present in the conversations about how that future gets built.

That is not a criticism of this report.

For me, it is one of the invitations inside it.

Because when the National Urban League talks about the next 50 years, it is talking about most of my adult life.

The decisions being made today about artificial intelligence, housing, education, voting rights, health care, wealth and employment will become the institutions my generation navigates for decades.

We will live with what is built.

That is why this report should not be read simply as an annual collection of troubling statistics.

It is a warning about what happens when America confuses formal opportunity with meaningful access.

A right on paper is not

enough if people cannot enforce it.

A job is not enough if work never becomes stability or ownership.

Representation is not enough if communities remain without power.

Diversity is not enough if institutions close the pathways that made participation possible.

And telling Black Americans to keep overcoming barriers cannot become a substitute for removing them.

Black Americans have spent 250 years demonstrating persistence.

We have built families, businesses, schools, churches, movements, institutions, art and political power in a country that has repeatedly made those accomplishments more difficult than they needed to be.

The question before America is not whether Black people will continue striving.

History has already answered that.

The question is whether the country will finally build institutions worthy of that effort.

That is what I hear in the 2026 State of Black America.

Not a declaration that progress has been meaningless.

Not an argument that the American promise should be abandoned.

A demand that we stop measuring the health of that promise only by the fact that it exists.

A promise matters when people can use it.

A right matters when it can be defended.

Opportunity matters when there is a pathway to reach it.

And the American Dream will mean something only if the institutions beneath it are strong enough to carry all of us.

a single company?

Concerns about the Nexstar-TEGNA transaction are not merely speculative. Past experiences involving large station groups have illustrated why policymakers, advocates, and communities continue to debate questions of local control and editorial independence.

Sinclair Broadcast Group drew national attention when stations across the country aired nearly identical scripts warning viewers about media bias, providing a visible example of how decisions made at the corporate level can shape content across multiple local markets simultaneously. Nexstar copied that playbook last year in forcing its “local” news to air segments parroting the company’s call to relax FCC broadcast ownership limits. The issue is not whether viewers agree or disagree with these messages. Rather, this practice raises broader questions about the extent to which local news remains responsive to local priorities when ownership and decision-making become increasingly centralized.

For communities that depend

upon local journalism to understand local realities, that distinction matters.

For Black communities, these questions carry special significance because political progress has often depended upon the ability to make local realities visible. The civil rights movement offers powerful examples. Images from Birmingham exposed the violence of segregation to a national audience. Footage from Selma helped galvanize support for voting rights legislation. Before these events became defining moments in American history, they were local stories unfolding within local communities.

Journalists documented what was happening, brought those realities into public view, and helped ensure that the concerns of Black Americans could not be ignored.

That same dynamic remains visible today. Many of the challenges confronting Black communities—including maternal health disparities, housing displacement, environmental justice concerns, unequal educational opportuni-

ties, and barriers to economic mobility—are fundamentally local issues. They are shaped by decisions made by city councils, zoning boards, school districts, county governments, and state agencies. Whether the issue is the closure of a neighborhood school, environmental concerns affecting a predominantly Black community, or redevelopment projects that reshape long-standing neighborhoods, meaningful public engagement depends upon access to reliable local information. Effective reporting on these matters requires journalists who understand the communities they serve, maintain relationships with local residents, and possess the resources necessary to investigate complex issues over time. When local reporting capacity declines, communities lose more than coverage. They lose visibility.

The consequences extend beyond journalism. A growing body of research has found that strong local journalism can encourage higher voter turnout, strengthen community engagement, expose

corruption, and improve governmental accountability. Local news helps residents understand what is at stake in local elections, how public institutions operate, and how government decisions affect their daily lives.

In doing so, it equips citizens with the information necessary to participate meaningfully in civic life. Conversely, when local journalism weakens or disappears, communities often experience lower levels of civic engagement, diminish political knowledge, and reduce oversight of public officials. For Black communities that have historically fought for political representation and equal participation in American democracy, these outcomes are especially concerning because access to reliable information has long been connected to political power, collective action, and community self-determination.

The debate over local television consolidation is therefore about far more than ownership structures or regulatory policy. It is about whether communities retain meaningful access to the information nec-

essary for self-governance. It is about whether local concerns continue to receive sustained attention in an increasingly centralized media environment.

Most importantly, it is about who possesses the power to shape public understanding of community needs and priorities.

The struggle for representation has never been limited to elected office. It has also been a struggle over who tells the story of American communities, whose concerns receive attention, and whose experiences are considered worthy of public discussion. Local television remains one of the institutions through which those decisions are made. As policymakers debate the future of media ownership, they should recognize that consolidation is not simply a matter of economics or efficiency. It is a question of whether communities—particularly Black communities— retain the ability to make themselves visible, advocate for their interests, and exercise power within a democracy that too often overlooks them.

4. Try to listen; have empathy for others

Well-meaning friends stop by and try to help. A bear suggests that Taylor get angry and shout about the destroyed blocks. An ostrich recommends that Taylor hide and pretend nothing happened.

Finally, a rabbit comes along, sits and simply listens. It’s just what Taylor needs – to be heard. And children, no matter how small, are not too young to be good listeners and good friends.

Heritage Park reporting has been separated from this assignment and will be handled through Insight News’ continuing Heritage Park coverage.

For now, Minneapolis is at the beginning, not the end, of its 2027 budget debate: the mayor has made his recommendation, council members have begun identifying concerns, and the public process stretches into December.

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All Washed Up Laundromat 3008 Penn Ave

Wally's 1840 Penn Ave

GV Apartments (two bldgs)

Golden Avalley Rd & Penn Ave

Thor Building 3 racks Plymouth & Penn

Minneapolis Urban League 2200 Plymouth Avenue

Comcast Don’t drop 801 Plymouth Ave

NCDC

1000 Plymouth Ave

Micky's Liqour

1104 Plymouth Ave

Karate School/Energy Company 1200 Plymouth Ave

UROC 2001 Plymouth Ave

NRRC

1303 Golden Valley

North Community M B 3951 5th Ave S.

Turning Point

1500 Golden Valley Rd

North Commons 2801 James Ave

North Star School 2410 Girard Ave

Wayman AME Church 1221 7th Ave

Zion Baptist

621 Elwood Ave

Shiloh Temple 1201 Broadway Ave

New Rewsurrection MB 1301 N. 10th St.

United Faith 1156 Aldrich

Spirit of The Lord 1001 Penn Ave

High Praise 1200 N. 7th At

Hospitality House 1220 Logan Ave

Greater Mt. Nebo 1530 Russell

North Community M B 1832 Penn Ave

DTLR 509 W Broadway Ave

Boost Mobile

523 W Broadway Ave

7 Mile Discount

611 W Broadway Ave

Winner Gas

626 W Broadway Ave

Cub Food 701 W Broadway Ave

Elizabeth Hall Elen School 1101 Aldrich Ave

Afrocetric Educational 1501 Aldrich Ave

Merwin Liquor

700 Broadway Ave

US Bank 1030 Broadway Ave

50+

COVERAGE AREAS

1604 W Broadway 1007 W Broadway

1711 W Broadway

Olympic Café

2117 W Broadway

Broadway Liquor Outlet 2201 W Broadway

Sanctuary Covenant 2018 Aldrich

Minneapolis Central 1922 4 th Ave

Greater Mt. Vernon 1800 Dupont

The Movement 1801 James

Griot Ministry 1601 Penn

NuWay MB 1530 Russell

Redeemer Lutheran 1800 Glenwood

Glendale Seventh 1138 Glenwood

United Christian Church 4300 Queen Ave

North United

4350 Fremont Ave

Watchmen Outreach 4150 Dupont

New Oil Christian 4050 Upton

New Mount Calvary 3859 Fremont

Liberty Community 3700 Bryant

Christian Restoration 4350 Fremont Ave

North Market

44th Ave & Humboldt Ave

Fremont Market 3558 Fremont Ave

Camden Market

42nd Ave & Fremont Ave

Super - USA

3807 Fremont Ave

Pump & Munch

45th Ave & Lyndale Ave

Clark Gas 41th Ave & Lyndale Ave

Fremont Clinic

3300 Fremont Ave

Northside Food Market 3559 N Lyndale Ave

Lowry Food Market 628 Lowry Ave

Star Food Market 818 Lowry Ave

Felowship Missionary Church 3355 4th St

Good News 3400 4th St

Northside Oriental Grocery 3201 Penn Ave

Quick Stop 3601 Penn Ave

Union Liquor 3219 Penn Ave

Spirit of Truth 3254 Penn Ave

New Covenant MB

1115 30th Avenue North

Holland Highrise

MINNEAPOLIS — DOWNTOWN & UPTOWN

Dunwoody College

MINNEAPOLIS — SOUTH POWDERHORN

UNIVERSITY AVENUE

Sabathani Center

3440 University Ave

McDonald Liquors

2389 University Av

Outdoor Stand 7th & Nicollet 7th & Nicollet

Outdoor Stand 1st St & 2nd Ave S 1st St & 2nd Ave S

Outdoor Stand N. 1st St & 4th Ave N. 1st St & 4th Ave

Harbor Lights

310 38th St

5010 S. 34th St

2199 University Ave

S. 34th St

Amoco Gas

3900 10th Ave S

4454 Chicago Ave

1225 8th St KENWOOD

825 Summit Ave S

Cup Foods

1600 Chicago Ave

3729 Chicago Ave

Black Heart Bar Cub Food

LA Fitness

1370 University Ave

Project For Pride In Living

Pillsbury House

1182 University

Walgreens

Chicago Ave

3240 W. Lake St

Laundratmat

Hennepin Liquor

Chicago Ave

1200 W. Lake St

Saigon Uptown Restaurant 30 Lyndale Ave S

Gaffrey Deli & Sub

Wield Shop Chicago Ave

3008 Lyndale Ave S

Subway

Walgreens Lunds & Berlys Henepin Liquor Speedway Gas

2200 Lyndale Ave

2525 E. Franklyn Ave

Holiday Gas

LONGFELLOW

Long Fellow Market

LAKE STREET

3815 E. Lake St

Chicago Liquors

East Lake Liquor 3916 E. Lake St

Speedway Gas

920 E. Lake St

4320 E. Lake St

Bryant & Lake Bowl

Recovery Center

810 W. Lake St

3400 S. 34th Ave

Speedway Gas

HD Coin Laundry

801 E. Lake St

3225 E. Lake St

Speedway Gas

Hennep Library 2727 E. Lake St

Maytag Laundry 5747 E. 34th Ave S HIAWATHA

Walgreens

Street Box Selby & Western

Mississippi Market 622 Selby Ave

E & J Cleaners 642 Selby Ave

Selby Wine & Spirits 778 Selby Ave

Scoops Ice Cream 920 Selby

Carolyn Flowers 921 Selby

Golden Thyme Coffee Café 934 Selby Av

GRAND AVENUE

Kowalski's Market 1261 Grand Ave

Walgreens

734 Grand Ave

Perrier Liquor 666 Grand Ave

Mobil Gas

236 Grand Ave RICE STREET

Merwin Liquors 1700 Rice St.

W. 78th St Nicollet Ave

Holiday Gas

Tobacco Shop

Prime Market & Deli

2409 E. Franklyn Ave

Cub Foods

Merwns Liquor

8348 Lyndale Ave S

Holiday Gas

86th Lyndale Ave S

Mahiripiri Gallery

Emmanuel Church

9001 Penn Ave S & W. 90th St

6030 Xerxes Ave

AM Food & Tobacco

8936 Lyndale Ave S

Speedway

1814 Nicollet Ave

5100 James Ave

One Touch Beauty Salon 7710 Brooklyn Ste 202

Twin Cities Rise

1011 Broadway Ave

Axis Medical Center 1801 Nicollet Ave

Cub Food

980 Payne Ave

3245 County 10 Rd.

CVS

Outdoor News Rack

810 Maryland Ave

Xerxes & Bass Lake Rd

Walgreens

African A to Z Mart 6930 Brooklyn Blvd.

1180 Arcade St.

M & H Gas

Brooklyn Center Liquor

721 Arcade St

1350A Shingle Creek Crossing

Liquor Ware House

Holiday

854 E 7th St.

5710 Xerxes Avenue N

Speedway

RICHFIELD

846 Johnson Pkwy

Cub Food East Side Liquor

1361 Maryland Ave

Sana's Market

1541 Maryland Ave

Jimmy's Food

532 White Bear Ave

Holiday 1770 White Bear Ave

SAINT PAUL

1750 White Bear Ave

Holiday

D & L Foods

Capitol liquor

Liquor Barrel

Cedar & 5th

161 Victoria

7848 Portland Ave S

Otto's Liquors 7850 Portland Ave S

6601 Penn Ave S

CVS 6540 Penn Ave S EDINA

50th France Ave

Edina Liquors Walgreen's

1201 Larpenteur Ave

Big Bottle Liquors

1149 Larpenteur Ave

Grand Ave & Snelling Ave

Noble Laundromat

Beauty Paradise

100 Larpenteur

Grand Ave & Hamline Ave

9056 Lyndale Ave S

Super Casa

6755 York Ave

BP Gas

MGM Liquor

7846 Portland Ave S

Outdoor Box

CVS

Cub Food

Upper Guts Barber Shop

France Ave

301 Mississippi St.

Merwin Liquors

7836 Portland Ave S

Speedway Gas

626 Larpentuer

El Gordo

TBS Mart Foods

BP Gas

Cedar & 6th

LARPENTEUR AVENUE

6000 Portland

7940 Penn Ave S

urban Lights

Outdoor News Box

531 Rice

Speedway Gas

Walgreen's

Snap Market

629 Rice St.

6444 Lyndale Ave S

7845 Portland Ave S

2197 Old Hudson

Outdoor News Box

957 Rice St.

7700 Lyndale Ave S

Walgreens

275 White Bear

Big Discount Liquors 945 Rice St.

Richfield Liquor Richfield Liquor

1177 Clarence St

1559 Larpenteur Ave

9001 Lyndale Ave S

1812 Nicollet Ave

5801 Brooklyn Blvd

Payne Ave Wine & Spirits

Speedway

1196 Rice St.

6044 Brooklyn Blvd

CVS

Cub Food

The Hillock Apt

696 Rice Street

3301 Hiawatha

6930 Brooklyn Blvd

296 E 7th St

MGM Liquor

Moto Market

African Deli

Speedway

Nanny's Jamaican Kitchen

Clinton Laundry Mat

1700 Rice St.

Dragon Star Super Market BROOKLYN CENTER

500 E 7th St

Speedway

46th St Hiawatha Ave

2001 Central Ave NE

Pilgrim Rest Church

Brooklyn Blvd & Starlite Ctr 8020 Brooklyn Blvd

633 W 7th St

Walgreens

1908 4th Ave S

Metro by T-Mobile

Cub Food

B P Gas

University & Rice

137 Maryland Ave

9200 West Broadway

6390 Brooklyn Blvd

8401 Lyndale Ave S

1901 57th Ave N

913B Payne

Holiday

2455 Hennepin Ave S

2501 E. 22nd St

Ebenezer Church

SELBY AVENUE

City Gyro

Brookdale Christian Center

9200 West Broadway

EAST SIDE

Walgreens

8421 Lyndale Ave S

6321 Zane Ave

Ebenezer Church

2057 Marshall Ave

1734 W 7th St

Nomadic Oasis Barber

2124 E. Franklyn Ave

7710 Brooklyn Ste 100

Amoco Gas

6930 Brooklyn Blvd

Minnoco Gas

Fast N Fresh Deli

Family Dentistry

2027 Marshall Ave

Speedway

Uptown Ballons

Holiday Gas

71st & Brooklyn Blvd

Marshall Liquor

Outdoor News Box

1625 Rice St.

4801 63rd Ave

Outdoor News Rack

981 Marshall Ave

Speedway

3541 Cedar Ave S

2622 Franklyn Ave

Welcome Ave & Brooklyn Blvd

1445 W 7th St

438 University Ave

Speedway Gas

Unity Temple

Outdoor News Rack

Book of Acts Church International COGIC

6930 Brooklyn Blvd

2501 Hennepin Ave S

Zipps Liquor

9401 Zane Ave

585 Fuller Ave

Speedway

BLOOMINGTON AVE

2951 Central Ave NE

Hy Vee Gas

Wolter Bros Liquor

Subway

Franklin Ave

9300 Zane Ave

Camphor Memorial United Methodist

Cooper's Food

Check Cash

Liferack Resources

Speedway

Unidale Mall

4440 Snelling Ave S

2329 Central Ave NE

8517 Zane Ave

KFAL Radio

3333 Cedar Ave S

Franklin Ave

Super - USA

451 W Central Ave

Tin Cup liquors

2000 S. 4th Ave & Franklyn

Wells Fargo Bank

5200 85th Ave

B.C. Liquor

Winner Gas

Health Center

Brooklyn Park City Hall

Mount Olivet Baptist Church

Boost Mobil

Walgreens

1815 Central Ave NE

7700 Brooklyn Blvd

1125 W 7th St

The Uptown Diner

Franklin Ave

678 Aurora Ave

Gentlemen's Cuts

Ele. Fetus

Senior High-Rise

St Albans Church of God in Christ

Hook Fish-chicken

1717 Washington Ave NE 2610 Central Ave NE

983 Central Ave. W

Walgreens

440 University Ave

317 E. 38th St

1902 Clinton Ave

New Birth Missionary Baptist

5716 Brookdale Dr

SEWARD

2404 Hennepin Ave S

Grace Temple Church

732 West Central Ave

The Gold Key Liquor Store

Speedway

Seward Co-op

1905 3rd Ave S

Pilgrim Baptist Church

Sunrise Grocery

Spy House

Third Ave Food Market

7 Mile

5700 Brookdale Dr

665 W 7th St

3620 E. 26th St

WHITTIER

608 University

QUICK AFRICAN MARKET

446 University Ave

2327 Hennepin Ave S

801 E. Lake St

Earth's Beauty Supply

7636 Brooklyn Blvd

Outdoor Box

Imaai Church

Global Market

Merwin Liquors

Liquor Barrel

Fit 1st Run

825 E. Lake St

839 University

7638 Brooklyn Blvd

Glamour Cuts

2600 E. 26th St

2448 Hennepin Ave S

Dale & Univrsity

University & Dale

2105 Lyndale Ave

Speedway Gas

Outdoor News Box

Shop

Cedar Food and Grill

2547 Hennepin Ave S

Family Dollar

7525 Brooklyn Blvd

605 University

1808 Riverside Ave

Wedge Co-op

DALE / WESTERN

St. Peter Church

W. 38th St Nicollet Ave

1200 W. Lake St

Brownstone

600 University Ave

Chicago Ave

1450 W. Lake St

970 University Ave

Park Ave Church

401 E. 41st

3240 W. Lake St

Speedway

University & Dale

3400 Park Ave S

2252 Lyndale Ave S

Hair & Wigs

Terriost Shop Chicago Ave

Speedway

756 Snelling Ave

CENTRAL / WEST SIDE

UPTOWN

Auto Shop

7410 Brooklyn Blvd

Speedway

Tobacco Shop

3740 Chicago Ave

1450 W. Lake St

Nice Family African

717 Snelling Ave

6930 Brooklyn Blvd 7330 Brooklyn Blvd #100

589 Dale Ave

1515 Park S

3501 Chicago Ave

Speedway

1539 University Av

1305 University Ave

Lunds & Berly's

Bubble Fresh Laundromat

600 Snelling Ave

Speedy Market

Coffeehouse

Park Elder Center

Holiday

Metro T Moble

1440 University Ave

Elliott Park Grocery

Nails & Tanning

510 Snelling Ave N.

604 Western Ave

Smoke in the Pit 3733 Chicago Ave

Fasika Restaurant

1685 University Ave

1475 University Ave

SUBURBS & NEARBY BROOKLYN PARK

W & T Market

1415 University

ELLIOT PARK

SAINT PAUL — EAST & WEST SNELLING AVENUE

Milburn Clothing

Just Turkey Restaurant 3731 Chicago Ave

The Kenwood

YMCA 1761 University Ave

Family Dental Clinic

Elliott Towers

Holiday

Believer Church

4432 Chicago Ave

730 S. 8th St

Speedway

Laundrat Mat

Chrysali Center

HCMC

Sharret"s Liquor

3357 University Ave SE

3800 Bloomington Ave

53 Glenwood

First Independence Bank

Speedway Gas 5101 S. 34th St

ALWAYS & FOREVER

SAINT PAUL — UNIVERSITY & SELBY

Greater Church 2600 E. 38th St

Outdoor Stand 10th & Marquette

Free

YEARS IN PRINT

Holiday

1345 Hamline Ave

CVS

6975 York Ave

CVS

6905 York Ave

30 Fairview Ave

Cub Foods

6775 York Ave CRYSTAL

Holiday

African Market

9066 Lyndale Ave S

Bottine Blvd & Wilshire Blvd

Walgreen's

9800 Lyndale Ave S

Crystal City Hall

Next Supermarkes

Holiday Gas

Crystal Liquor Warehouse

Walgreen's

HennCty Library - Rockford Rd

Speedway Gas

Liquor Barrel

1280 W. 98th St S

5628 W Broadway

WINDOM

ROBBINSDALE

Holiday Gas

Hy Vee

Cub Foods

Arco Food Mart

Walgreen

COLUMBIA HEIGHTS

1823 Nicollet Ave 1845 Nicollet Ave

4141 Douglas Dr N

50 W. 98th St S

Family Tree Clinic 1919 Nicollet Ave

Flowers by Miss Bertha 2100 Nicollet Ave

A Slice of New York 2407 Nicollet Ave

Park Avenue Center

56 Ave & Elmhurst

9800 Lyndale Ave S

6401 N 42nd Ave

5444 Nicollet Ave

2430 Nicollet Ave

Glam Doll Donuts

3505 Bottineau Blvd

5937 Nicollet Ave

2607 Nicollet Ave

Shawns Hor Supermarket 2712 Nicollet Ave

Caravelle Photo

Bottineau & 42nd Ave

Speedway

W. 66th St Nicollet Ave

Subway

5000 Central Ave NE

Laundermat

4950 Central Ave NE

Top Value Liquor

W. 66th St Nicollet Ave

2529 Nicollet Ave

Pancho

W. 66th St Nicollet Ave

2539 Nicollet Ave

BP Gas

Speedway Gas

W. 35th St Nicollet Ave

PPL Career Center

5400 Lyndale Ave S

CBD Health & Wellness 5315 Lyndale Ave S

1021 E. Franklyn Ave

Outdoor Box

50th Grant Ave S

Super USA

5965 Penn Ave S

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