AM.MN: Your big-city mayors, where you least expect them

With his new focus on getting re-elected next week, St. Paul Mayor Chris Coleman released a 30-second TV ad called “Good Guy.” A real TV ad — not to be confused with the official a 30-second “Chris Coleman for Governor” ad someone posted at YouTube the other day — that oughta show those Eva Ng lawn signs who’s boss. As the Draft Rybak for Governor group presses on, Minneapolis Mayor R.T. Rybak was set to show up at his first candidate event with his mayoral rivals (at least a couple of them) last night, after a John Choi for Ramsey County Attorney event — in Hennepin County, at the Minneapolis Club, just to confuse things.

Elsewhere in Minnesota news this morning …

ST. PAUL: Street-paving controversy blows up. Coleman said he left the guv race so he would be available for local crises, but when a street gets paved in bricks instead of blacktop, it’s the Taxpayers League and not the mayor who’s there. [KSTP-TV]

MINNEAPOLIS: Another Kahn challenger in the New York Times. Seven years ago, it was state Rep. Phyllis Kahn writing in the Times about a turncoat intern running against her; now a Times staffer does the duty with a new rival younger than her years in office. [New York Times, Hot Dish Politics]

WASECA: H1N1 victim wasn’t sick before. But he ran a hospital where everyone was sick. [Mankato Free Press]

ST. PAUL: You’re not old enough. Preservationists say the rule that a building only becomes historic when it’s 50 years old is, well, obsolete. [Minnesota Public Radio]

SAUK CENTRE: Cows seized. The dairy herd, 47 strong (weak, actually), wouldn’t have made it through the winter had the sheriff not intervened. [St. Cloud Times]

THE TWITTERVERSE: What the pilots who overshot the Twin Cities were really doing. Former Minnesotan comic Lizz Winstead probes that topic with some help from her friends. [Twitter]