AM.MN: Jones back as U.S. Attorney; Paulose at SEC in Miami

B. Todd Jones is back as Minnesota’s U.S. attorney. The man who once hired Rachel Paulose (according to the Pioneer Press) returns to his Clinton-era post as the state’s top federal prosecutor. He’s one of the first five of President Obama’s U.S. attorney appointees to be confirmed, in a Senate vote Friday. Meanwhile, Paulose, who had a rocky tenure in the same post between Jones’ stints, has resurfaced at the Securities and Exchange Commission’s Miami office. 

Elsewhere in Minnesota news this morning …

BLOOMINGTON: Ken Salazar lauds urban wildlife refuges. Somehow the nation’s so-called Interior Secretary visited Bloomington without also paying tribute to the nation’s largest indoor shopping center (Earth to Ken: It has a Rainforest Cafe and a cowboy-hat store). [Minnesota Public Radio]

MINNEAPOLIS: Mayor “can’t just coast.” In a campaign email, R.T. Rybak cites a multitude of rivals, “each with at least some constituency,” in the upcoming contest — for mayor, not governor. [Lloydletta's Newz and Comment]

GOODVIEW: Mayor disputes danger of radium in city water. Two filtration plants are built, but Jack Weimerskirch still isn’t drinking the Kool Aid when it comes to the hazards of a radioactive element he says didn’t hurt Moby Dick or Chief Wabasha. [Rochester Post-Bulletin]

WORTHINGTON: Stalled pickup entangles driver in laws of state he doesn’t recognize. The man was towing eight horses from Iowa to Oregon but only got as far as Minnesota, where the self-declared Posse Comitatus ”sovereign” landed in jail and refused a shower, among other things. [Worthington Daily Globe]

ALBERT LEA: No Town Hall-ering here.  How quaint: A Republican petition against health care reform at the Freeborn County Fair. [Albert Lea Tribune]