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Deena Winter

Saint Paul

Journalist at Freelance

Minneapolis City Hall reporter for the Star Tribune. Started at the Northwood Gleaner now I'm here, 282 miles to the southeast. DM or Signal me your hot tips.

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  • 1 day ago | startribune.com | Deena Winter

    Will further-left progressives hang onto control of the Minneapolis City Council, or will a comparatively moderate coalition more aligned with Mayor Jacob Frey wrest it back in November? The recent completion of the DFL endorsements in each race leaves it to anyone's guess. The November election will decide whether Frey stays in office, and whether progressives stay in control of the council or whether moderates aligned with Frey return to power.

  • 2 days ago | startribune.com | Deena Winter

    Minneapolis City Auditor Robert Timmerman said the city has widespread problems in the way it doles out contracts to private companies to do everything from clear homeless encampments to prevent violence. "It is abundantly clear that the contract oversight across different departments within the city is lacking," he told the city's Audit Committee Monday.

  • 4 days ago | startribune.com | Deena Winter

    Minneapolis City Council Vice President Aisha Chughtai hasfailed to win the Minneapolis DFL party's endorsement, marking the second council incumbent to lose out on the coveted party plug. Chughtai won more votes than her opponent, Lydia Millard, but Saturday's Ward 10 convention ended with no party endorsement - but plenty of ill will, as Chughtai said she was assaulted and one of her campaign volunteers threatened.

  • 2 weeks ago | startribune.com | Deena Winter

    Brian O'Hara was heralded as a transformational leader when he took control of the beleaguered, battered Minneapolis Police Department in late 2022, in the aftermath of George Floyd's murder by police. Two and a half years into the job, his relationship with the city is complicated. The City Council unanimously confirmed O'Hara, the first permanent police chief appointed after Floyd's killing.

  • 2 weeks ago | gazettextra.com | Deena Winter

    Police Chief Brian O'Hara said Minneapolis has a "very detached, bourgeois liberal mentality," according to a New York Post story posted Friday as the city this week approaches the fifth anniversary of George Floyd's murder by police. O'Hara said he became accustomed to a very Democratic city when he worked in Newark, N.J., but that nothing had prepared him for the "ultra-liberal orthodoxy," as the Post put it, that he found in Minneapolis. O'Hara was Newark's public safety director.

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Deena Winter
Deena Winter @deenafaywinter
15 May 25

What Nebraska’s ‘blue dot’ could signal for Democrats and Trump - The Washington Post https://t.co/1MRRvPfbV9

Deena Winter
Deena Winter @deenafaywinter
14 May 25

Newly departed Hennepin County sheriff’s captain subject of criminal theft investigation https://t.co/AKaf1IRJHZ

Deena Winter
Deena Winter @deenafaywinter
14 May 25

‘It behooves us to be prepared’: Walz, other MN agencies weigh in on rumors Trump will pardon Derek Chauvin https://t.co/prWuyCIOYd