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Steve Brandt

Reporter  |  Minneapolis City Hall

Phone: 612-673-4438

E-mail: sbrandt@startribune.com

Steve Brandt covers Minneapolis City Hall and city issues.

Recent content from Steve Brandt

• Low-key mayoral contest depressed Minneapolis turnout, officials say
  At 20 percent, turnout hit a low not seen since 1902. Results released Wednesday were good for incumbents.
  Nov 11, 2009
• Election judges take matters in hand to determine close races
  Though sometimes called instant-runoff voting, it's anything but. Votes are being counted by hand in cases where no one won 50 percent plus one vote.
  Nov 4, 2009
• Success for ranked choice
  Most voters adapted to the new system with ease. But now the hand-counting begins in races without a clear winner. Now the waiting starts for candidates as hand-counting begins of ranked-choice votes in races where first choices don't indicate a clear winner.
  Nov 4, 2009
• Rybak easily wins a third term as Minneapolis mayor
  Instant runoff voting went smoothly Tuesday in Minneapolis as R.T. Rybak dominated the field.
  Nov 4, 2009
• Ballot count by hand starts in Minneapolis
  Most of the candidates who were on the ballot still can't be sure who won, because of the city's new method of voting.
  Nov 4, 2009
• Book adds texture to city's biography
  From civic corruption, anti-Semitism and racial tension to the rebirth of a downtown, riverfront and rail transit, Iric Nathanson's new book traces the 20th century life of Minneapolis.
  Nov 3, 2009
• Election Day: What will ranked choice bring?
  Minneapolis' first such vote -- and St. Paul's referendum on a similar system -- could determine the future of the method in Minnesota. | Twin Cities incumbents, challengers face off on air.
  Nov 3, 2009
• Twin Cities incumbents, challengers face off on air
  The Minneapolis debate focused on taxes, audits and crime rate; St. Paul candidates discussed light rail and the city's rising budget.
  Nov 2, 2009
• Minneapolis tries ranked-choice voting
  Voters in this year's municipal elections will get to rank three candidates in each election contest. The system aims to make more votes count, but it has some pitfalls.
  Nov 2, 2009
• Power debate goes before Mpls. voters
  Does government work best with power centralized or dispersed? Minneapolis voters will face that question Tuesday.
  Oct 30, 2009

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