AM.MN: Lesbian in running to be state’s Episcopal bishop

She likes to kayak in Lake Superior. She’s been in a same-sex partnership for 22 years. And now Rev. Bonnie Perry, a Chicago rector, is one of three nominees to be Minnesota’s next Episcopal bishop. If she lands the job, her moving van would cross Wisconsin, which yesterday made domestic partnerships legal for gay couples.

Elsewhere in Minnesota headlines this morning…   

VESTA: Kelley selects teacher to run guv bid. Carrie Lucking steers former state Sen. Steve Kelley’s campaign to a FarmFest candidate forum and corn feed today. [Political Animal; Redwood Falls Gazette]

BEMIDJI: Tom Emmer says Obama wants your guns. The Republican state Rep from Delano, another guv candidate, is a real son of a hockey mom who’ll “guarantee you” that fellas on the Iron Range like the way he laces his skates better than liberals from the Cities. [Bemidji Pioneer]

ST. PAUL: Doug Peterson won’t run. The ex-state rep, now president of the Minnesota Farmers Union and a “teacher, farmer, auctioneer, artist and rural leader,” says there’s one job he won’t do: governor. [Forum Communications]

MINNEAPOLIS: Big arrests in August? Somali-American immigrants’ trips to fight in their homeland have the FBI so worried about violence boomeranging back to the United States that they’ve launched the biggest anti-terror investigation since 9/11. [National Public Radio]

UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA: Office trash now taken weekly. The daily dump of deskside wastebaskets at the state’s biggest employer is history. [Minnesota Daily]

DULUTH: Bungeed eagle OK. A motorcyclist strapped an injured bird to his Harley and took it first to the zoo and then rehab. [Duluth News Tribune]