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At least one Minnesotan was among a dozen Greenpeace protesters who hung a banner urging action on global warming over Abraham Lincoln’s left cheek Wednesday at Mount Rushmore. That much can be surmised from an Associated Press report that 11 activists arrested came from eight states, including ours. Minnesotans protesting at Mount Rushmore goes back a ways, to American Indian Movement actions in the early 1970s — but not as far back as the AP’s typo has it, to “the early 1070s.”

Elsewhere in Minnesota news this morning …

MINNEAPOLIS: University of Minnesota art museum gets $50,000 in stimulus funds. The money allows the Weisman to hire a curator whose first task will be to rehang the collection during a $14 million expansion that starts next year. Meanwhile, regents voted to spend $400,000 to raze the 1888 Music Education building on the campus’ historic Knoll, calling re-use too pricey. [Minnesota Daily]

STATEWIDE: Feds send stimulus for weatherization. No gigs for curators, but “thousands” of construction jobs will be created getting 16,800 homes all buttoned up, for a whopping $52.7 million. That could buy every Minnesotan $10 worth of thermal underwear. [Minneapolis-St. Paul Business Journal]

FREEBORN COUNTY: Wisconsin panel to say yea or nay to vast wind farm in Minnesota. Badger State regulators hold sway over a Wisconsin utility’s plans to build what would be the Gopher State’s largest wind farm. [Associated Press]

POLK COUNTY: Officials brace for new flu’s next wave. The H1N1 pandemic won’t be as bad as 1918 but “could still be devastating to communities,” says the county’s public-health head, who is readying three flu centers to aid victims. [Crookston Times]

DULUTH: Semi-pro football squad’s squabbles pile up. Hollywood called its locally-filmed paean to a 1920s pre-NFL team “Leathernecks,” but knuckleheads is more like it as a modern-day minor league melts down. [Duluth News Tribune]

WINONA: Pope tightens reins on rogue order. The pontiff assigned the top American in Vatican City to oversee relations with the Society of St. Pius X, which is notorious for Holocaust-denials issued by one of its bishops while he was at Winona’s St. Thomas Aquinas Seminary. [Associated Press]