reporter @ minnesota reformer. covering the trump admin's impact on minnesotans and posting about sports sometimes too. texan in st. paul. eng/esp
madi mcvan
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Some of the efforts being made in Belfast right now to protect people, because the government can't or won't, will be familiar to Minnesotans.
Hortman’s thoughts on the 2025 legislative deal that preserved some of the DFL’s major wins but cost undocumented adults’ access to state-subsidized health insurance:
VIVA MÉXICO
Editor Patrick Coolican writes about his last conversation with former House Speaker Melissa Hortman, and who she was: "Principled but willing to compromise; competitive while ethically grounded; a team player but not blind to her own side’s faults" minnesotareformer.com/2026/06/12/i...
"Boelter’s attorney asked him, did you put the gun to Hortman’s head and pull the trigger?
Yes, he said, drawing cries from the courtroom."
@maxnesterak.bsky.social reporting from the courtroom as John and Yvette Hoffman, and the Hortman children, watched as Boelter admitted to the shootings.
Coolican: I spoke with Melissa Hortman 36 hours before she was killed. Here’s some of what she said.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement may not be as present on Minnesota streets as it was this winter. But inside the Whipple Federal Building on most weekdays, the immigration court is quietly enacting President Donald Trump’s mass deportation efforts. www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
gut-wrenching details here in the plea agreement Vance Boelter made in pleading guilty to the murders of Melissa Hortman and her husband - and read allowed in court with the Hortman children and the Hoffmans in the room. Plea agreement here: www.documentcloud.org/documents/28...
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I suspected there was a reason the Bosnian players weren't singing along to the anthem and it turns out it has no official lyrics because they can't come up with a set of lyrics the country's various ethnic groups agree upon
A guilty plea would be an important marker in Minnesota's recovery from the most brutal political violence in recent history.
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...
Hundreds of strangers in Belfast working together. Doing shopping, providing accommodation, driving kids to school, people to hospital appointments.
Have just been told of a woman close to us who hasn't left her house since Monday so we'll be sorting her out today and getting her anything she needs
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madi mcvan
Several months after the declared end of Operation Metro Surge, the Trump administration’s mass deportation efforts are still moving forward in Fort Snelling Immigration Court.
