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

Senate Majority Leader Kari Dziedzic, DFL-Minneapolis and House Speaker Melissa Hortman, DFL-Brooklyn Park, on May 24, 2023 in St. Paul. Along with DFL legislative leaders and his commissioners ...

Melissa Hortman — who along with her husband, Mark, was shot and killed June 21 by an armed intruder — spent her legislative ...

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.

Editorial Board: Among Melissa Hortman’s missions — in tragic irony — were gun safety and reform She wrote about it in commentaries for the Minnesota Star Tribune.

Melissa Hortman — who along with her husband, Mark, was shot and killed last week by an armed intruder — spent her legislative career trying to make Minnesota safer. Both ...

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.

(Dziedzic died of cancer in late 2024. If you’ve not yet seen it, please read Editorial Board member Rochelle Olson’s June 15 column on their legacy as leaders.) ...

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.