Briana Bierschbach
Reporter
Politics and GovernmentBierschbach has spent the last decade covering Minnesota politics for various publications, including MPR News and MinnPost. She started her journalism career in college at the University of Minnesota’s campus newspaper, the Minnesota Daily, where she covered city hall. Bierschbach also has worked at the Pioneer Press, the Associated Press and the Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal. In her spare time, she teaches a class on state government at the Humphrey School of Public Affairs and spends time with her husband, dog and two cats.
Latest from Briana Bierschbach
From 'be meaner' to be civil: How Hortman shooting shifted Walz's political message
The governor’s call to tone down political rhetoric rings hollow for some Republicans, who say he’s been “raising the temperature” for months in his travels across the country.
June 19, 2025
'This is an uprising': An oral history of the 6 days after George Floyd's murder
Protesters, police, Gov. Tim Walz and neighbors chronicle the upheaval that changed Minneapolis and spread across the world.
May 19, 2025
Minnesota shortens distance for return-to-office exemption for state employees
A 75-mile distance exemption to the new policy is now 50 miles for state workers.
April 30, 2025
Enrollment is up in health care program for undocumented Minnesotans. GOP wants it to go.
Interest is higher than anticipated in a new program offering health care to residents who don’t have legal status.
April 30, 2025
Who’s looking to run for Angie Craig’s U.S. House seat now that she's running for U.S. Senate?
Craig's Second Congressional District seat is back on the radar of Republicans, with several candidates from both parties expected to jump into the race soon.
April 29, 2025
Elon Musk’s X sues Minnesota over law to criminalize sharing election-related deepfakes
The law makes it a crime to share a deepfake within 90 days of an election intended to influence results or harm a candidate’s reputation.
April 24, 2025
Ethics panel weighs whether Minn. Senate president violated rules
Bobby Joe Champion has asked committee for advisory opinion on whether he violated conflict of interest rules.
April 22, 2025
Minnesota Rep. Betty McCollum joins call for Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to resign
The ranking member of the House Defense Budgeting Committee previously called for an investigation into the use of Signal to discuss strikes in Yemen.
April 21, 2025
Minnesota government workers live with uncertainty as federal government slashes aid to states
The state has seen its first layoffs trickle down from sudden cuts to funding from the Trump administration. More could be coming.
April 19, 2025
Minnesota critics see new hurdles to voting in U.S. House measure
Minnesota’s U.S. House members split on party lines over the SAVE Act, which Republicans are pushing to require documentary proof of U.S. citizenship in order to vote. Voting-rights advocates see new hurdles to ballot access.
April 11, 2025
Walz tells state agencies with federal funding to ‘assume it’s going to be cut’
The comment comes days after the Minnesota Department of Health sent layoff notices to 170 employees connected to federal funding.
April 3, 2025
Trump administration has removed Minnesota buildings from list of federal offices it wants to sell
The Paul D. Wellstone building in Minneapolis and the Bishop Henry Whipple Federal Building were among those included on an earlier list.
March 31, 2025
