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Norm Coleman went out for a steak dinner in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 5 after the State Canvassing Board declared that his challenger, Al Franken, had received 225 more votes in the recount of Minnesota’s Senate election. But it turns out he wasn’t just crying in his steak. Coleman’s companions that night were Matt Brooks, executive [...]

Minneapolis Mayor R.T. Rybak announced today he is running for re-election. The announcement took the form of a mayoral message on Twitter directing people to a video on YouTube, which in turn directed viewers to his new campaign Web site, where surfers can further connect to his Facebook page. Rybak’s only announced rival (aside from perennial candidate Dick Franson) is [...]

The Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor (DFL) Party charged former U.S. Sen. Norm Coleman and a GOP lawyers’ group with violating Federal Election Campaign laws as they raise money for a post-recount lawsuit challenging the results of the Senate recount.

Minnesota’s DFL members of Congress are unified in opposition to statements made by Republican Rep. Michele Bachmann questioning whether liberal members of Congress support America. Reps. Betty McCollum, James Oberstar, Keith Ellison, Collin Peterson and Tim Walz, and Sen. Amy Klobuchar released a joint letter on Monday denouncing the statements made by Bachmann on Friday.
“For [...]

As presumptive nominee for the Democratic Party, Barack Obama will need to heal the rift between his supporters and the faction that voted for Sen. Hillary Clinton. But one person he won’t need to immediately reach out to is Minnesota DFL Feminist Caucus Chair Mari Urness Pokornowski. “Surprised” by a Star Tribune article that ran [...]

The giant international management consulting firm McKinsey & Co., which charted the restructuring effort of Minneapolis city government known as Focus Minneapolis earlier this decade, has lately turned its attention to the Minneapolis Public Schools. First, over the winter, came a McKinsey-led strategic plan for the beleaguered school system, followed in March by the installation [...]

Saying that “The economy in our country is under great strain,” Gov. Tim Pawlenty proposed a sales tax cut of one-eighth percent on Friday as part of his supplemental budget proposal.

The move is something of a surprise, as the state faces a $935 million shortfall in the state’s biennial budget.

The Republican governor proposed $341 million [...]

Pro-choice activists rallied at the State  Capitol rotunda on Tuesday in support of abortion rights and comprehensive sex education. The rally, part of Pro-Choice Lobby Day, drew the DFL leadership from both legislative bodies, along with activists and other legislators.

A boisterous Senate Majority Leader Larry Pogemiller, DFL-Minneapolis, was joined at the podium by House Speaker [...]

A bill seeking to recover up to half of the current shortfall in state transportation funding is up for a veto override vote today.

Gov. Tim Pawlenty vetoed the bill, which passed with a large bipartisan majority in the House, last week before heading out of town. Sources in the House, in which the DFL majority [...]

The UpTake gauges DFL Senate candidates’ support through the precise science of applause at recent debates. Burying the needle on The UpTake-o- Meter Tuesday night was Jack Nelson-Pallmeyer, but UT’s Michael McIntee clarifies that the venue, Minneapolis’ Roosevelt High School, “is Jack Nelson-Pallmeyer’s backyard and ‘Back Jack Pack’ which jammed the auditorium let everyone know [...]