Olson: In Melissa Hortman, so soon after Kari Dziedzic, Minnesota politics loses another selfless leader They both played fair and trusted that good policy would prevail.

The Senate majority leader says Minnesota can’t ignore the shooter’s intentions in targeting legislators, Rochelle Olson ...

The State Senate was also evenly divided after Kari Dziedzic, a Democratic senator, died shortly after the 2024 election, but a special election in early February gave Democrats a one-seat majority.

The State Senate was also evenly divided after Kari Dziedzic, a Democratic senator, died shortly after the 2024 election, but a special election in early February gave Democrats a one-seat majority.

Melissa Hortman championed gun reform in Minnesota, making her killing by an armed intruder Saturday night all the more tragic, the Editorial Board writes.

Suspect Planned to ‘Inflict Fear’ With Wider Killing Spree, Prosecutors Say The man accused of assassinating one state lawmaker in Minnesota and shooting another could face the federal death ...

Melissa Hortman — who along with her husband, Mark, was shot and killed June 21 by an armed intruder — spent her legislative career trying to make Minnesota safer. Both as a member of the ...

Walz has already called three other special elections in the Legislature this year, including one to fill the seat of former Senate Majority Leader Kari Dziedzic, who died in December of cancer.

Opinion editor’s note: Editorials represent the opinions of the Minnesota Star Tribune Editorial Board, which operates independently from the newsroom. ••• Melissa Hortman — who along ...

I first met Hortman along with Sen. Kari Dziedzic, who died last year of cancer, in 2023 after I’d criticized the big jump in state spending they engineered that year.