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Had state Sen. Kathy Sheran’s bill to reform absentee voting dodged Gov. Tim Pawlenty’s veto pen last year, it might have spared Minnesota at least some of the agony of the current statewide recount. Sheran has denied foreknowledge that the outcome of Minnesota’s U.S. Senate race this year would hang on absentee ballots. Now she tells the Minnesota Independent that her reform effort also wasn’t inspired by a recount involving a contested absentee ballot in her first race 24 years ago. That story is told in government meeting minutes that are — amazingly — available online going back more than 50 years at the City of Mankato Web site. But proximity to the state’s most dramatic recounts seems to run in the family for Sheran, whose father was a longtime justice on the state Supreme Court.

Mothers Day and politics seem strangely at odds.

Politics is down and dirty. Mothers are hardly that. Or rather shouldn’t be.

Yet mothers are having a greater presence in political life. There are three mothers in Congress representing Minnesotans: Rep. Michele Bachmann, Rep. Betty McCollum and Sen. Amy Klobuchar.

And another mother is the speaker of the Minnesota [...]

“Southwestern Minnesota politics is based on populism,” said the dinner guest at the 11th annual Dan and Ronnie Burton dinner held in the ballroom of the student union at Minnesota State University, Mankato, Saturday night. The folks in St. Paul think of the area as solidly conservative, he continued, but that’s not true. Some of [...]

Rep. Terry Morrow, DFL-St. Peter, is only three months into being a state representative, and yet he’s already on a conference committee to settle the differences between the Minnesota Senate and House versions of the transportation bill. Yet he’s in good company, for the Mankato-St. Peter area’s other two first-year legislators, Rep. Kathy Brynaert and [...]

Dressed casually in a work shirt and slacks, former U.S. Sen. Mark Dayton was back on the stump Friday at Minnesota State University, Mankato, addressing a small group of students, faculty, staff and local citizens about environmental challenges facing the state.
The gathering was the fourth annual Green Conference held on the campus mall.
In [...]

House action yet to come
State Sen. Kathy Sheran, D-Mankato, entered the Minnesota Legislature just this past January. It was an experience that must have been like a bird pushed from the nest and told to fly. For she had a big act to follow — that of veteran lawmaker John Hottinger — and was [...]

Minnesota could lose a representative in Congress after the 2010 census, says a report by the Minnesota State Demographic Center entitled, “Halftime Highlights: Minnesota at Mid-Decade.” According to a report published by State Sen. Kathy Sheran’s office,
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Four months ago Prof. Kathy Sheran was teaching classes in the School of Nursing at Minnesota State University, Mankato, and running for the Minnesota State Senate. Today she is Sen. Kathy Sheran (D-Mankato) and one of the chief sponsors of the 2007 “Freedom to Breathe Act” (House version, Senate version).

In years past this legislation would [...]

State DFL dirties the water

Kathy Sheran, DFL candidate for State Senate in District 23, is disgusted. “It’s a shocker,” she says. “I was anticipating something happening, and waiting for it to happen to me.” She’s talking about negative campaigning, but it’s not against her. It’s against her opponent, Republican Mark Piepho.

The piece, which arrived in [...]