Elsewhere in Minnesota News this morning …

STATEWIDE: Local property taxes up 3.5 percent. That’s an estimated average; the truth comes out at Truth-in-Taxation hearings starting next week. [Associated Press]

RAMSEY COUNTY: She gets put on the Coleman-Franken recount board, the unallotment lawsuit, now the dad-shirt case. Doesn’t Judge Kathleen Gearin deserve a “Stay Out of the News Free” card?” [St. Paul Pioneer Press]

STATEWIDE: Al Franken’s bill would aid homeless kids. Bill would help them stay in the same school when possible. [ECM Publishers]

OWATONNA: Texts (both kinds) prompt race tensions. White kids and Somali kids are fighting after anti-Somali writings circulate. [Star Tribune]

MOORHEAD: Native Americans in college. They’re the focus of a national conference today.  [Associated Press]

ALBERT LEA: “Pay-to-play” charges could sink junior-league puck squad. The whistleblower is a bowling alley owner in Elkhorn, Neb. [Albert Lea Tribune]

Elsewhere in Minnesota news this morning ….

HENNEPIN COUNTY: They told us it would come to this. The county’s medical center will stop seeing uninsured patients who don’t live in the county: fallout from  Gov. Pawlenty’s line-item veto of funding for indigent care. [Minneapolis-St. Paul Business Journal]

STATEWIDE: Cities face “horror show” from state budget cuts. Metro area city officials meet today to try to figure out how to avoid the slasher. [League of Minnesota Cities]

MOORHEAD: “Downward spiral” from underfunded schools feared. New residents drawn to new schools will simply leave.  [Minnesota Public Radio]

ST. PAUL: Gentrification coming down the track. Along the planned Central Corridor light rail line, property tax hikes can kill a neighborhood sure as bulldozers.  [Twin Cities Daily Planet]

UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA: Recreation and entertainment infrastructure not core to mission. The U of M’s “intransigence” (to use one key legislator’s word) on its Central Corridor complaints threatens funding for its budget requests at the state Capitol. [Minnesota Daily]

FOLEY: Native son nabs National Book Award. T.J. Stiles, a Carleton College grad, won for his biography of Cornelius Vanderbilt. [St. Cloud Times]

Elsewhere in Minnesota news this morning …

STATEWIDE: Ask Al more. Five dollars and cab fare to New York City will get you a lunch audience with Sen. Franken. [Washington Post's In the Loop]

TWIN CITIES: Random acts of criminality on YouTube. Police are on the trail of local thugs who posted a clip showing them attacking people on bikes and on foot. [Fox 9]

PRIOR LAKE: Native Americans get ready for Copenhagen. They want a say in climate-change talks. [Associated Press]

DASSEL: Steve Dille out. The Republican state senator won’t run again; he was one of the eight GOPers who helped override Gov. Pawlenty’s veto of transportation funding in 2008. [Litchfield Independent Review; Polinaut]

PRAIRIE ISLAND: Lege has last say on nuke storage. The people’s reps at the state Capitol could reverse a regulatory OK for Xcel Energy to store more nuclear waste. [Rochester Post-Bulletin]

STATEWIDE: Or possibly universe-wide? Minnesota Public Radio’s designs on dominance in news. [Braublog]

Elsewhere in Minnesota news this morning …

STATE CAPITOL: House to file brief in unallotment suit. It’s a roundabout way to have their say in state’s budget after Gov. Pawlenty’s unilateral cuts. [MN Publius]

STATEWIDE: Norm Coleman is golden in guv-race poll. Smart Politics says told ya so, while candidates not named by pollster have a right to cry foul. [Politics in Minnesota; Smart Politics; Political Animal]

UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA: Scholars debate ID. The clash of ideas rang out as Minnesota’s P.Z. Myers pushed evolution and Ohio’s Jerry Bergman pushed back with intelligent design. [Minnesota Daily]

ROCHESTER: MnDOT hearts PRT. The state’s Department of Transportation hosts a symposium on personal rapid transit, the podcar system that’s been known to polarize people. [Associated Press]

MOOSE LAKE: Superintendent files suit over abuse as teen. His community houses sex offenders, now he alleges abuse at the hands of one, at a Catholic church retreat. [Star Tribune]

AVON: Trailers ‘untenable.’ A manufactured home park’s travails highlights the scarcity of low rents in rural areas. [Minnesota Public Radio]

Elsewhere in Minnesota news this morning …

STATEWIDE: That’s our gal. The proportion of voters who don’t approve of U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann is greater in her own district than statewide … so she should run against U.S. Sen. Al Franken in 2014. [Smart Politics]

MINNEAPOLIS: People who voted like instant-runoff voting. Somehow pollsters found 504 of them to ask. [Minnesota Public Radio]

STATE CAPITOL: State IT pros support Gov. Pawlenty. An audit says the guy who online outdoorsmen call a “slob hunter” didn’t track his office’s computer-support expenses either. [Associated Press; Star Tribune]

UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA: U2 at TCF in June. Bono will talk to Bill Cooper about debt relief. [Star Tribune; City Pages]

MAPLEWOOD: Al Franken visits City Hall. It’s safe to go to Maplewood again. On a Sunday, anyway. [John Nephew]

ST. PAUL: Heckuva job, Goldie. The feds say the Gopher State did good after I-35W fell down. [Minnesota Public Radio]

Both complaints involved Bachmann’s Nov. 5 rally against health-care reform in front of the U.S. Capitol.

Israel, of New York, used YouTube to voice his displeasure with prominent protest signs at the Bachmann event depicting Holocaust victims. A statement Bachmann released this week contains an apology of a sort.

On his TV show, Stewart took Hannity to task for inserting footage from another, larger rally into scenes from Bachmann’s event. Here’s Stewart’s take on Hannity’s sort-of apology.

Elsewhere in Minnesota news this morning …

ST. PAUL: State to borrow to cover costs. A quarter-century-long streak of not taking out a loan may end next year. [Associated Press]

BIG LAKE: Northstar commuter rail starts Monday. But transit to (and more importantly, from) such destinations as Maple Grove and Eden Prairie is still years off. [Minnesota Public Radio]

MOORHEAD: What’s your major? That’s what U.S. Sen. Al Franken asked students at Minnesota State University. [InForum]

GREENFIELD: Stand down, Jill. That’s what residents said to Jill Krout, mayor of the beleaguered Hennepin County town. [Star Tribune]

RED WING: Shoemakers get the boot. Sixty second-shift workers at Red Wing Shoe Co. face layoffs. [Rochester Post-Bulletin]

PRAIRIE ISLAND: More nuclear energy and nuclear waste. Thanks to the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission, which approved Xcel Energy’s plans. [Rochester Post-Bulletin]

Elsewhere in Minnesota news this morning …

MINNEAPOLIS: Wobblies wobble but they don’t fall down. The Industrial Workers of the World opens a local office. [Workday Minnesota]

ST. PAUL: Ex-cons off the hook. Republican activist Jeff Larson’s FLS Connect fundraising operation is accused by a former employee of letting felons take down credit card numbers. [Politics in Minnesota]

STATE CAPITOL: Panel mulls deficit. The deliberations come weeks before the next budget forecast. [Associated Press]

HENNEPIN COUNTY: Homeless program has nowhere to go. Sixty clients are on their own after state cuts doom the Street Case Management Project. [Star Tribune]

THIEF RIVER FALLS: Cop stole stuff. Like lawn mowers, boats, ATVs. He got fired. [Grand Forks Herald]

MINNEAPOLIS: Stadium Village bar cited for underage sales. Stub & Herbs has also been a sometime political home to libertarianism. [Minnesota Daily]

Elsewhere in Minnesota news this morning …

INVER GROVE HEIGHTS: Vets’ Day breakfast. At the event, Gov. Pawlenty will be joined by U.S. Rep. Betty McCollum and Sens. Amy Klobuchar and Al Franken — the same three who attended the memorial at Ft. Hood in Texas Tuesday. [Associated Press]

ST. PAUL: Really gone. That’s where the Republicans will be if they don’t tolerate moderates, says Norm Coleman. [Hot Dish Politics]

AUSTIN: The play must go on. Even with neo-Nazis in the front row. [Twin Cities Daily Planet]

SIXTH CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT: Clark staffs up. DFL state Sen. Tarryl Clark has hired experienced DFL campaign staff and Minneapolis Mayor R.T. Rybak’s pollster.  [Hot Dish Politics]

FIRST CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT: Not sick enough? Census data shows few of U.S. Rep. Tim Walz’s constituents lack health insurance, so their support for his yes vote on the recent reform bill is in question. [Rochester Post-Bulletin]

Elsewhere in Minnesota news this morning …

TWIN CITIES: Slow-motion raid wrests 1,200 undocumented janitors from jobs. Obama incrementalism means Bush-era workplace raids continue, only slower. [Minnesota Public Radio]

ST. PETER: R.T. Rybak attended his first gubernatorial candidate forum. As a gubernatorial candidate, that is. [Minnesota Daily]

ST. PAUL: A skyway too skinny. It’s four feet short of the minimum width so wheelchairs may pass, but never mind — the Galtier Plaza skyway is “classy,” says the city’s director of safety and inspections. [MinnPost]

AUSTIN: Swastika-wearers ignored. Last month anti-immigration demonstrators drew opponents riled enough to get arrested, but this time around the protest was comparatively quiet. [Austin Daily Herald]

MINNEAPOLIS: The eight best days of autumn. It’s a week later, but the first official results from the Nov. 3 election will come Wednesday, thanks to the hand-count of ranked-choice ballots. [Star Tribune]

ST. PAUL: A town with pity. A free concert recalls the late Gene Pitney, the man who sang “(The Man Who Shot) Liberty Valance.” [Associated Press]