I spoke with Melissa Hortman 36 hours before she was killed. Here’s some of what she said.

Melissa Hortman often told me things she probably shouldn’t have. One time when I was a Capitol reporter with the Star Tribune, she expressed displeasure with a profile I’d written about a Republican operative. “The journalistic equivalent of a bl*wjob,” she told me with that grin of hers, which shone through her eyes. The late […]