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Six candidates, all of whom live in Edina, filed to run for the open District 6 seat on the Hennepin County Board and a special primary April 30 will narrow the field down to just two. Voters will pick the winning candidate during a May 14 special election. The winner will finish the term of Chris LaTondresse, who left the board in September. The term is up at the end of the year, so the seat .
It’s a sign of the partisan times that we need to create a “Civility Caucus” at the Legislature, but political parties, phantom donors and courts have corrupted a political system
At the Civility Caucus in Minnesota's Legislature, Republicans and Democrats regularly get together and try to get beyond politics and get to know each other through lunches, happy hours and hot dish cookoffs.