Amy Klobuchar

File this under “Beside the Point.” On its third day of Minnesota Poll stories, the Star Tribune carries the headline “Most don’t back a Pawlenty run” — as if the governor cares what Minnesotans think. Asked to tell his constituents where he’s been jetting in pursuit of the presidency, Pawlenty dismissively recommends a search engine: “You [...]

Minnesotans know something that even the national conservative elite doesn’t: Tim Pawlenty will be the next Republican nominee for president. Or so half of those polled in the state told Rasmussen Reports.

The Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) has a had a rough week. The Census Bureau dropped the organization as a community partner after a FOX News sting operation, prompting praise from Rep. Michele Bachmann. Sens. Al Franken and Amy Klobuchar voted with the majority in the U.S. Senate to block ACORN from [...]

A new study says the net economic impact of the 2008 Republican National Convention on Minnesota’s economy was $170 million, Minnesota Public Radio reports. (The research was done for the Minneapolis St. Paul 2008 Host Committee by the University of St. Thomas’ Center for Retail Excellence, so you know it’s good.) But when the St. [...]

U.S. Sen. Amy Klobuchar has vowed to co-sponsor a bill that would restrict the United States’ use of cluster bombs, rendering as many as half a billion stockpiled weapons off-limits. That’s according to activists who say the announcement — made at a meeting with her Wednesday, after months of pressure by Minnesota citizens and peace groups — came as a surprise.

“The lantern is lit” is the cryptic message Sen. Ted Kennedy used to summon Sen. Amy Klobuchar to his tiny, memorabilia-bedecked U.S. Capitol office, where the liberal lion held a small salon of senators rapt with Irish yarns, Boston stories and tales from the campaign trail.

In a statement, U.S. Sen. Amy Klobuchar recalled the late Sen. Edward Kennedy’s “wit and stories” and “fiery zest,” calling him an “inspiration.”

U.S. Sen. Amy Klobuchar promised “I’m not going to be rationing health care” but she rationed out 14 question-asking opportunities among more than 10,000 callers during her tele-town hall on health care reform Sunday. Her staff wouldn’t let the St. Paul Pioneer Press see exactly how the tele-death panels that chose the lucky questioners operated, [...]

The New York Times riffs on Garrison Keillor’s “A Prairie Home Companion” today in the headline to Timothy Egan’s piece on how Western states have long embraced the concept of cooperatives — even health-care cooperatives. Egan didn’t mention that the radio host’s brother, Steven J. Keillor, wrote the book on rural co-ops in Minnesota, from the [...]

“Panel tells DNR moose hunting should be allowed.” Other news media also cover a new report from Minnesota’s Moose Advisory Committee to the state Department of Natural Resources, but only the Star Tribune’s headline hinted at the potential gallows humor in a Palinesque death panel for Minnesota’s biggest mammals. The committee proposes a moose harvest (sorry, [...]