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As both a medical doctor and pilot, Andrea knows a lot about courage,risk, and being safe. She also knows when it makes sense to be afraid, and when it makes sense take risks. Risk-taking is something we all do, but putting others at greater risks with our own actions or [...]

People in the district are asking, so I’ll say it again: I support the legalization of adult-use cannabis in Minnesota. It just makes sense for criminal justice, public health, and the economy. There is little doubt that current marijuana cannabis laws are too often used as an excuse to target [...]

Andrea is a medical doctor who loves animals. She also recognizes the importance of nurturing our natural environment and wildlife, for all of Minnesota, as well as in Prior Lake and Jordan. The Minnesota state legislature has a lot of responsibility and oversight for care of  Minnesota's wildlife and environmental [...]

Andrea Nelsen, is a medical doctor educated in epidemiology. With an MD from Cornell and MPH from the University of Minnesota, she has been trained by both Dr Anthony Fauci and Dr. Michael Osterholm. Andrea is exactly the woman we can trust to hold the [...]

Justice matters. Equality and equity matter. My opponent has done nothing to address social inequality and injustice in our state, and the fact that a summer of riots started because of the killing of a Minnesota citizen shows that Minnesota is not as just or fair to citizens as many [...]

As your state legislator, I will work with other legislators and elected officials of both parties to make sure we improve our local economy and that business owners want to invest in our community to create new jobs and maintain the ones we have. This will be especially important because of the [...]

If I am elected, my top priority will be to take on the high cost of health care. These days, health care expense are bankrupting more Minnesotans than ever, and putting needed treatments and medications out of reach. For seniors, the situation is especially bad. Older adults often need help [...]

Tony Albright has represented Prior Lake and Jordan in the Minnesota legislature since 2013. Since that time he has indeed performed some good work for individual constituents, but overall he has proven unable to do the right thing for most of us  when it requires voting against the orders he [...]

Nice weather we’re having! I remember when a snowy day in October was ammunition for those who didn’t believe in “global warming,” the phenomenon we now understand as climate CHANGE. I grew up in small town Minnesota, a place where we cherished our summers at the lake and our cross-country-skiing [...]

One of the first things I will do after being elected is support legislation that will eliminate the developer fee loophole that is keeping our property taxes artificially high here in the Southwest Metro. Currently developers do not have to pay cities fees to cover anticipated street infrastructure upgrades that their new developments necessitate. [...]

I really appreciate that this paper helps inform us about the candidates in our elections. I, like most people, want to be an informed voter. But there was one thing in particular that jumped out at me when reading the recent Q&A articles for Minnesota House District 55B. The question [...]

April 8, 2020 - Twin Cities Pioneer Press -- As Minnesota hospitals prepare for a surge in coronavirus patients, it is almost certain that they will need more doctors and nurses. In addition to seeing higher numbers of patients, many front-line health-care workers will likely become sick and require replacements. [...]

July 11, 2019, SW News Media --  The race to represent Prior Lake and southern Scott County in the Minnesota House has begun more than a year before the November 2020 election. Dr. Andrea Nelsen, a Prior Lake psychiatrist, Democrat and political newcomer, is running for District 55B with a [...]

August 12, 2019, SW News Media --  The Friends of Andrea Nelsen for Minnesota State Legislature will hold a meet and greet for candidate at Jordan’s Lagoon Park Gazebo this week. From 5-7 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 22, locals can discuss issues like affordable and accessible health care, education, the environment, [...]

December 19, 2019, SW News Media --  Lowering the cost of insulin and other prescription medications has become a shared goal for Democrat and Republican elected officials, whether they're southwest metro legislators and candidates or President Donald Trump. Several local and federal proposals, including caps on prices or copays and [...]

January 20, 2020, SW News Media --  In the Dec. 19 Prior Lake American, State Rep. Tony Albright was quoted as saying that government price controls on pharmaceutical drugs could lead to controlling doctors’ fees by a “bureaucratic force.” He suggests that innovation and market forces are the better way [...]

February 25, 2020, SW News Media --  About 25 people filled a classroom on the third floor of Shakopee High School for GOP precinct caucuses Tuesday night. In one corner of the room, an 18-year-old named Matthew Pastrana participated in his first-ever caucus. At the other end of the [...]

March 11, 2020, SW News Media --  As a physician, public health expert with a master's in public health and the daughter of a polio survivor, I was dismayed to read in the Feb. 29 Prior Lake American that my state senator, Eric Pratt, told GOP caucus-goers he "stands with [...]