am.mn logoWhat is it about riding a bike under a baseball stadium that Tom Coburn and John McCain don’t understand? The senators decried federal stimulus spending to extend the Cedar Lake Bike Trail into downtown Minneapolis, prompting a blog retort by Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood, who wrote that Coburn “doesn’t get bikes.” The bike route would hug an active rail line that runs beneath Target Field. Would Coburn and McCain like it better if the Twins agreed to be called the Senators again?

Elsewhere in Minnesota news this morning …

TWIN CITIES: Second Moussaoui tipster gets $100,000 reward. The first got $5 million in 2008; a third from the Pan Am flight school is “flabbergasted” to have received no money. [Associated Press]

MINNEAPOLIS: EMILY loves Margaret. Is House Speaker Margaret Anderson Kelliher using her EMILY’s List and other endorsements to spread a “veneer of inevitability” in the governor’s race? [Political Animal]

SIXTH CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT: The “fuzz ball” that roared. A ho hum interview with U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann gets lambasted, and her fuzzballness gets seriously questioned. [MinnPost; City Pages; Talking Points Memo]

WHITE TOWNSHIP: What would have helped keep the local barber in business? Copper mining. [Duluth News Tribune]

FRIDLEY: One thousand four hundred and sixteen voters brave blizzard to preserve status quo. They denied city officials the right to ask those same voters for tax or fee hikes to deal with state cuts to local-government aid. [Star Tribune]

STATEWIDE: Trivia … or fate? Seven Minnesota governors have come from newspaper work of one kind or another; Minneapolis Mayor R.T. Rybak, a former reporter and publisher, would be No. 8. [Smart Politics]