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Dave Kansas
Dave Kansas is an editor at The Free Press. Prior to that he was executive vice president and COO at Minnesota Public Radio. He spent most of his journalism career at The Wall Street Journal with postings in New York and London. He lives in St. Paul, Minnesota.
How Minnesota Became the Center of Everything
Minnesota is ‘perfectly purple,’ so we are in the bull’s-eye of America’s deeply frayed and fractured politics.
January 12, 2026
Dave Kansas

The Fall of Tim Walz Is a Comedy Turned Tragedy
The Minnesota governor was supposed to exemplify Midwestern masculinity. But his poor performance and a massive fraud scandal destroyed his prospects.
January 6, 2026
Dave Kansas

Minnesota Vice: How Corruption Took Hold in My State
The massive Somali scam shows how much has changed in the place where I grew up—and not for the better.
December 9, 2025
Dave Kansas

The Shooting at Annunciation School—and Our Troubled Times
What comfort can there be after so many tragic, targeted killings, which are occurring with alarming frequency?
August 28, 2025
Dave Kansas
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