AM.MN: Tarryl’s in (sorta), Norm’s not (yet)

Bad news for fish and Michele Bachmann: Norm Coleman says he will “do a lot of fishing” while taking another nine or ten months to decide whether to run for governor, and state Sen. Tarryl Clark has checked a box on a federal form suggesting she’ll run to replace Bachmann in Congress. (Another DFLer with sights set on unseating Bachmann, Elwyn Tinklenberg, wasn’t playing so coy.)

Elsewhere in Minnesota headlines this morning…

FIRST AND SEVENTH CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICTS: GOP radio ads to target Dems on health care. First the Democratic National Committee aimed health-reform ads at their members of Congress, now Republicans are piling on. [MinnPost; The Hill]

DULUTH: Move for tighter conflict-of-interest rules fails. City councilors won’t restrict themselves from voting on matters in which family members have a stake, heeding advice from the mayor, who warned new rules would “introduce a world of gray into your world.” And heaven knows Duluth has enough gray.  [Duluth News Tribune]

CARLTON: First Hell’s Angels arrive. “Prospects and hang-arounds” are showing up in advance of an expected onslaught of motorcyclists from the notorious club on their USA Run. [Cloquet Pine Journal]

LAKE SUPERIOR: Report due on sunken military barrels. The Red Cliff Band of Lake Superior Ojibwe will tell what they’ve dredged up along the North Shore at a presentation in Duluth next week. [Duluth News Tribune]

ELK RIVER: County jail data online. Now you can look up whether your cousin is locked up from the comfort of your home computer. [St. Cloud Times]

TWIN CITIES: Local hotels emptying fastest. Hotels in the metro had the worst drop in occupancy last month among the nation’s top 25 hospitality markets. Y’all missed a nice June! [Travel Daily News]