Star Tribune Article Rating

COVID restrictions, policing debate spark conservative push

Feb 06, 2022 View Original Article
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    -12% Somewhat Liberal

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    -58% Negative

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

45% : But when its left-leaning mayor and city council imposed restrictions such as mask mandates and business closures to reduce the spread of COVID-19 and reallocated a portion of the city's police budget during the Black Lives Matter movement in 2020, they sparked a conservative uprising that led to the formation of Unite Norman.
45% : Although the Austin group was unsuccessful in its attempt to increase police funding, they did help restore a camping ban that the city had repealed to decriminalize homelessness.

*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.

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