Max Nesterak
@maxnesterak
professionally nosy. reporter at @mnreformer covering labor. board member @mnspj.
Minnesota DFL Sen. Ann Rest just issued a statement about Vance Boelter stopping at her home early Saturday morning. Boelter was interrupted by a police officer performing a welfare check.
Notable: The 147,000 job gains in June were almost all (over 75%) in healthcare and government. Government: +73,000 Healthcare: +39,000 The government job gains looked like this: State gov't education +40,000 State gov't non-education +7,000 Local gov't education +23,000 Local…
Glints of joy among the horror. With @michellemgriff After violent deaths, children of Hortmans pray for peace at parents’ funeral minnesotareformer.com/2025/06/28/aft…
hope we did her justice. Remembering Melissa Hortman: Republicans and Democrats say her power came from her selflessness minnesotareformer.com/2025/06/26/rem…
This is a richly-deserved award but @jpcoolican is going to be absolutely insufferable now. If you're not reading the Reformer you're missing some of the best news coverage in the state: minnesotareformer.com/subscribe/
Journalist of the Year: @jpcoolican of @MNReformer
Anecdotally, it felt like cancer was everywhere in the rural MN farm community we lived in for nine years. Then I ended up getting it.
“For the last few years, Iowa has had the second-highest rate of cancer in the nation, and is only one of two US states where cancer is increasing.” theguardian.com/us-news/2025/j…
Sen. Mike Lee refuses to answer Qs regarding his controversial post in the wake of the MN shootings or his conversation with Sen. Tina Smith over the post. His aide attempted to shield our cameras as we questioned him.
First of all, thank you for the book “Letters to a Young Conservative.” It was formative in my thinking many years ago. I suggest you take just a pause, though, and have just a bit of empathy for the many people touched by the horrible crimes committed in Minnesota on Saturday.…
Can you explain the “levels” on which this is a “bad take”? I suspect you have no better answer than, “I am trying to look respectable and maintain my social standing.”
A powerful and poignant statement from the Hortmans' two children on how they would like their parents to be remembered:
Minnesota's Campaign Finance & Public Disclosure Board has removed "street address for candidates, treasurers, and chars of candidate committees, political committees, and party units" from its site in response to requests from #mnleg members, exec director confirms to Axios.
Scoop: Colorado takes down campaign finance database after Minnesota shootings axios.com/local/denver/2… #COpolitics #COleg #COgov
Context: Trump hasn't called Walz about the killing.
My thanks to Premier Doug Ford of Ontario who called to express his condolences to the Hortman family and the people of Minnesota. In times of tragedy, I’m heartened when people of different views and even different nations can rally together around our shared humanity.
Gov. Walz and First Lady Gwen Walz paying tribute to Speaker Emerita Hortman. @kare
Which labor bills passed — and which didn’t — in Minnesota in 2025 minnesotareformer.com/2025/06/16/whi…
I got mad and wrote a column: A Democratic legislator was assassinated; right-wing influencers coughed out disinformation minnesotareformer.com/2025/06/14/a-d…
This is the suspected assassin of former Speaker Hortman.
Probably one of the last photos if not the last photo of Speaker Emerita Melissa Hortman and her husband, Mark, taken last night at the DFL's Humphrey-Mondale Dinner, which someone described to me as the "DFL prom." Courtesy of the Minnesota House DFL Caucus #mnleg
A beautiful and funny tribute to Minnesota Rep. Melissa Hortman from @jpcoolican of @MNReformer
People who googled Minnesota Legislature for the first time this morning, please take a seat
If you want to know why a Democratic Senator and Representative in Minnesota were shot… It might have something to do with the fact that their deaths would end the Democratic majorities in both chambers.
Minnesota House Democratic leader dead after targeted shooting; Democratic senator also shot, @michellemgriff reports minnesotareformer.com/2025/06/14/min…