am.mn logoWho needs high school football or rock festivals when congressional constituents can get rowdy together at a town hall meeting? People in the First District gave a clinic in civic (and by all accounts civil) boisterousness at U.S. Rep. Tim Walz’s health care forum Thursday night. Passion was in fashion, with one speaker telling Walz he objects to reform “because I don’t trust you.”

Elsewhere in Minnesota news this morning …

DULUTH: Sewage spews onto streets, into streams and Lake Superior. That happens sometimes when it rains; the feds have given the city a decade to fix it. [Duluth News Tribune]

ROSEVILLE: Republicans eye guv candidates at party picnic. An activist noted what they had in common: “They’re all conservative, and they’re all staying on message.” She forgot the obvious: They were all wet. [St. Paul Pioneer Press]

DULUTH: Hillary Clinton’s autograph enough to start work on controversial pipeline. Enbridge Energy will pump 19 million gallons of Canadian oil per day across Minnesota to Superior, Wis. [Bemidji Pioneer]

MINNETONKA: H1N1 flu shots are on the house. UnitedHealth Group says it will cover the cost of vaccines for people the government says should get them. [Minneapolis-St. Paul Business Journal]

MINNEAPOLIS: Gophers try out new football stadium. University of Minnesota students will get in free Saturday – sans breathalizer tests, one hopes — to watch an intra-squad scrimmage.  [Minnesota Daily]

TWO HARBORS: Mayor promises memorial to beloved tree. What’s left of the landmark “Honking Tree” after scoundrels cut it down last spring will provide material for its own monument. [Duluth News Tribune]