Rochelle Olson

"When I heard about the endorsement, my first call was to a DFL source. The giggling was audible before they could even say hello," columnist Rochelle Olson writes.

Columnist Rochelle Olson's weekly roundup also covers state Sen. Nathan Wesenberg's bizarre rant about gay kids in Minnesota schools.

Peggy Flanagan and Angie Craig have been engaging in verbal fisticuffs just like the good old boys during this year's fiery race for U.S. Senate, columnist Rochelle Olson writes.

Plus: Yes, that Flock camera data might just be used against you. Opinion editor's note: Strib Voices publishes a mix of commentary online and in print each day.

From columnist Rochelle Olson: After nearly eight years as Attorney General Keith Ellison’s solicitor general, Liz Kramer, the state’s lead constitutional lawyer and appellate litigator, is leaving state government.

Plus: State Sen. John Hoffman's self-centered endorsement claims Opinion editor's note: Strib Voices publishes a mix of commentary online and in print each day.

But we're supposed to believe that it was Her, not the nature of the weekly gathering itself, that sexualized the otherwise serious tone of “Weiner Wednesday”?

Columnist Rochelle Olson's weekly roundup also covers Pete Stauber's bizarre intimation that Tom Emmer was dying.

A transcript of a conversation between columnist Rochelle Olson and St. Paul native Brendan Ballou, a former prosecutor who is at the forefront of exposing corruption in President Donald Trump’s administration.

"The expectation for the DFL U.S. Senate primary was that it would be close regardless of who came out on top," columnist Rochelle Olson writes. "It wasn't."