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U.S. Sen. Larry Craig’s mistake wasn’t letting the clock run out on appealing his airport bathroom sex-solicitation case to the Minnesota Supreme Court — it was bringing the wrong case in the first place. That’s the view of Charles Samuelson, executive director at the American Civil Liberties Union of Minnesota (ACLU-MN), who thinks that a refusal to acknowledge his homosexuality impeded Craig’s ability to make his legal arguments.

Rep. Jim Oberstar, DFL-Minn., held a press conference today to weigh in on the newly announced merger between Northwest Airlines and Delta. Oberstar, who chairs the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, was asked how the merger will affect Minnesota.

Reflecting back to 1991, when Northwest was on the brink of bankruptcy and multiple parties came together [...]