Melissa Hortman's blunt advice to Democrats before her death Melissa Hortman often told me things she probably shouldn’t have.One time when I was a Capitol reporter with the Star Tribune, she expressed displeasure with a profile I’d written about a Republican operative.“The journalistic equivalent o
Melissa Hortman often told me things she probably shouldn’t have.One time when I was a Capitol reporter with the Star Tribune, she expressed displeasure with a profile I’d written about a Republican operative.“The journalistic equivalent of a b---job,” she told me with that grin of hers, which shone...
