{"id":11396,"date":"2024-01-10T20:21:39","date_gmt":"2024-01-10T20:21:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/?p=11396"},"modified":"2024-01-10T20:21:39","modified_gmt":"2024-01-10T20:21:39","slug":"new-york-times-quotes-professor-michael-lansing-on-historic-all-female-st-paul-city-council","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/2024\/01\/10\/new-york-times-quotes-professor-michael-lansing-on-historic-all-female-st-paul-city-council\/","title":{"rendered":"New York Times Quotes Professor Michael Lansing on Historic All-Female St. Paul City Council"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2024\/01\/Screenshot-2024-01-10-at-2.19.34-PM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11397 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2024\/01\/Screenshot-2024-01-10-at-2.19.34-PM-300x41.png\" alt=\"New York Times wordmark\" width=\"300\" height=\"41\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2024\/01\/Screenshot-2024-01-10-at-2.19.34-PM-300x41.png 300w, https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2024\/01\/Screenshot-2024-01-10-at-2.19.34-PM-1024x138.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2024\/01\/Screenshot-2024-01-10-at-2.19.34-PM-768x104.png 768w, https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2024\/01\/Screenshot-2024-01-10-at-2.19.34-PM.png 1140w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Michael Lansing, professor and chair of history at Augsburg University, was quoted in a January 10 New York Times article about the swearing-in of St. Paul\u2019s first all-female city council. For the first time, all seven city council members are women; they are also younger and more racially diverse than any council in St. Paul&#8217;s history.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Lansing, an active public historian, spoke to the Times about demographic shifts in recent decades that helped lay the groundwork for this historic election. The election of seven women to city council is \u201ca turning point for St. Paul,\u201d he told the Times.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cThey\u2019re all under 40, they come from these different backgrounds, they\u2019re probably going to be in politics for a while,\u201d he said. \u201cWhat do they do? What can they change? How do they see things differently?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s2\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/01\/10\/us\/st-paul-women-city-council.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Mk0.c9a2.InTyzq6LhkWn&amp;smid=url-share\">Read the article via the New York Times: \u201cAll-Female City Council Marks a \u2018Turning Point\u2019 for a Twin City\u201d<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Lansing, professor and chair of history at Augsburg University, was quoted in a January 10 New York Times article about the swearing-in of St. Paul\u2019s first all-female city council. For the first time, all seven city council members are women; they are also younger and more racially diverse than any council in St. Paul&#8217;s &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":499,"featured_media":11002,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-faculty","category-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/499"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11396"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11396\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11398,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11396\/revisions\/11398"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}