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A straw poll results from Tuesday night’s political caucuses continue to trickle in, gubernatorial candidates RT Rybak and Margaret Anderson Kelliher are taking the top spot in the DFL, while Marty Seifert is garnering a large number of votes on the Republican side. Early results for the Independence Party show Tom Horner taking the lead, but voting for that straw poll will continue online until Feb. 28.

For the second time this week, things didn’t go as planned for a costumed Minnesotan entering the offices of Louisiana’s Sen. Mary Landrieu. Amy Klobuchar, dressed like a New Orleans Saints fan, tried to make good on a football bet Wednesday by delivering a dish of Minnesota gumbo to her colleague’s Washington office. But A-Klo’s maiden [...]

Minnesota’s best chance at a mention during the State of the Union — barring an unlikely shout-out to accused phone-repair impersonator Joe Basel — is Sen. Al Franken’s new jobs bill, inspired by a Minnesota program. But a nod from Obama may not bode so well. Last year in a similar speech, the president praised Minneapolis for saving [...]

Leslie Davis is the only candidate for governor who doesn’t own a car. It’s too dangerous for John Marty to bike 12 miles to work. Urban sprawl sickens and saddens Tom Rukavina. That’s what attendees heard Monday at the first gubernatorial forum on transportation, land use and the environment.
Elsewhere in Minnesota news this morning …

Margaret Anderson Kelliher is about to attempt a rarely tried feat: serving as Speaker of the Minnesota House of Representatives during a contentious legislative session while at the same time running for governor in a competitive DFL field.

If official-looking “census” forms that actually come from the Republican Party succeed in confusing people, the tactic could come back to bite the GOP in Minnesota. Demographers have said the state is on the cusp of losing a congressional seat, depending on whether enough residents respond to the real U.S. Census. That’s the census Michele [...]

All 20 or so were asked, but a first-ever forum on American Indian issues in Bemidji drew nine gubernatorial candidates, all DFLers. Tom Bakk promised no racinos. Mark Dayton and Margaret Anderson Kelliher called tribal leaders their peers. Tom Rukavina said he’d put a Native American in his “kitchen cabinet.” R.T. Rybak lauded “incredible” Indian communities. [...]

The Minnesota Universal Health Care Coalition released a questionnaire on Monday polling candidates for governor on their stance on single-payer health care (pdf). All DFLers and one Republican responded. The majority support a single-payer health plan in Minnesota.

The murders of three men Wednesday in an apparent robbery attempt at a Somali-owned South Minneapolis corner store are sure to temper discussion of declining rates of homicide and other violent crimes — particularly at a meeting that Mayor R.T. Rybak and other city leaders were set to hold this morning to highlight improved public safety, at a YWCA not [...]

The Minnesota Twins got the public to fund their ballpark back in the good old days, when Hennepin County residents were rolling in the sofa change that paid for Target Field via a new sales tax. Now the county realizes “we’re up to our eyeballs” in red ink and suggests taxpayers gathering coins from under [...]