am.mn logoThe Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome is putting on a clinic for what “multi-purpose” means, with the Vikings game tonight sandwiched between what was supposed to be the Twins’ last game at the Dome Sunday and an added regular-season playoff with the Detroit Tigers Tuesday. That lent an air of error to Sunday’s postgame ceremony marking the end of an era at the Dome, capped off by Kirby Puckett, Jr., removing a giant placard reading “1″ – the final number in a countdown of remaining games before the Twins move to the new Target Field next year. Behind the “1″: a Target store symbol.

Elsewhere in Minnesota news this morning … 

ST. PAUL: Seifert tops GOP straw poll. State Reps. Marty Seifert and Tom Emmer and former state auditor Pat Anderson are the state party’s preferred global-warming deniers for governor. [ECM Publishers]

WINONA: A town hall on Afghanistan. U.S. Rep. Tim Walz will host it Friday. [Winona Daily News]

UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA: Somalia prez speaks. Sharing the stage with Sharif Sheik Ahmed at Northrop Auditorium were U.S. Sen. Al Franken, St. Paul Mayor Chris Coleman and state House Speaker Margaret Anderson Kelliher. [Minnesota Daily]

MINNEAPOLIS: Nazis go home. “Triumph of the Will” it was not, as counter-protesters made the Midway YWCA safe for a seminar about white privilege. [Twin Cities Daily Planet]

TWIN CITIES: St. Paul Pioneer Press congratulates Star Tribune with full page ad. Because Hallmark doesn’t sell “Getting out of bankruptcy” cards. [Minnesota Public Radio]

MINNEAPOLIS: Rosemary Williams is D.C.-bound. She’ll bring her foreclosure protest to a demonstration outside the National Building Museum today for World Habitat Day. [Minnesota Public Radio]