Tag: Minneapolis City Council
Jamal Osman wins Minneapolis City Council Sixth Ward seat
Jamal Osman is the new Minneapolis Sixth Ward City Council following Tuesday's special election after the city released unofficial results this morning. The city...
Video: Minneapolis Sixth Ward candidates forum
Ten of the remaining eleven candidates in the upcoming August 11 Minneapolis City Council Sixth Ward special election participated in a candidates forum that...
Minneapolis Sixth Ward Special Election: How Ranked Choice Voting works
Minneapolis first adopted ranked choice voting, a largely unfamiliar and controversial system, for the 2009 city election. It has been used to elect officials...
Mshale to host Minneapolis City Council virtual candidates forum
Mshale will host a virtual candidate forum on Thursday, July 16 ahead of the special election for the Minneapolis City Council Ward 6 seat....
Minneapolis city council candidate Mohamoud Hassan drops out of race
A large field of candidates for the vacant Minneapolis City Council Sixth Ward has shrank by one as Mohamoud Hassan, a Somali-American activist announced...
How an African-born student leader’s swift action triggered police reform in...
Jael Kerandi is only 21 years old, but she has made the kind of impact that takes many social justice advocates decades to achieve.
When...
Councilman Warsame to launch exclusive column in Mshale
The first Somali-American to win a municipal election in the United States, Councilman Abdi Warsame of Minneapolis, will debut a new column called “Councilman's...
Abdi Warsame becomes first African-born Minneapolis City Council member
Abdi Warsame today (Nov. 5) became the first person born in Africa to become a Minneapolis City Council member. He beat incumbent Robert Lilligren...
Somali professionals propel Warsame to top tier of money getters in...
Cab drivers, IT workers and a host of the self-employed have catapulted Minneapolis City Council candidate Abdi Warsame to the top tier of candidates...