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In what would otherwise have been his last visit to Minnesota as vice president, Joe Biden did not resign (as Arianna Huffington says he should if President Obama further escalates the Afghan war) during a Thursday sojourn to Edina. There, at a $7,500-per-person fundraiser, Biden spent half his speech expressing gratitude to former vice presidents (and [...]

To the victor go the spoils, the saying goes. And so on Tuesday Minneapolis Mayor R.T. Rybak took delivery of 10 pounds of hamburger from Jim Schmitt, mayor of Green Bay, Wisc., in fulfillment of the friendly wager they made on the Vikings-Packers football game. But the Vikings’ win wasn’t the only news since the [...]

Twenty years ago, a dream of being inside a movie-studio limousine when revolution breaks out made filmmaker Michael Moore swear off limo rides. It was a similar wrong-place, wrong-time nightmare that led St. Paul Mayor Chris Coleman to swear off gubernatorial pursuits. ”I had a vision of me at a bean feed somewhere while the Central [...]

St. Paul Mayor Chris Coleman debates his Republican opponent, Eva Ng, tonight, and they’ll tangle again on Minnesota Public Radio the day before the election. But in Minneapolis, Mayor R.T. Rybak’s campaign says he doesn’t have any showdowns scheduled with his 10 challengers. (He’ll miss a mayoral forum Wednesday.) Instead, Rybak is shadow-boxing Gov. Pawlenty [...]

Although Minneapolis held no primary election this year, candidates for city office still had to file “pre-primary” campaign-finance reports under a new ordinance passed this summer. Yet for two weeks after the Sept. 8 deadline, confusion and other delays kept a couple dozen candidate and political committee reports from reaching the public.

Updated No wonder her challenger implies she’s posh. According to the Hennepin County campaign finance website, Minneapolis City Council Member Elizabeth Glidden’s campaign has $1,671,059 on hand. 

It turns out state Rep. Marty Seifert won’t be the only politician with a booth promoting a 2010 bid for the governor’s office at the 2009 Minnesota State Fair: Draft R.T. Rybak for Governor has snapped up a spot in front of the Epiphany Diner. But while Seifert plans daily face time at his booth, [...]

You want to see some vein-popping, eyeball-bulging, fire-breathing, pissed-off progressive rhetoric on health care? Sample these speeches from Saturday’s DFL rally for health care reform in St. Paul, featuring U.S. Reps. Betty McCollum and Keith Ellison, and mayors R.T. Rybak of Minneapolis and Chris Coleman of St. Paul, in video clips via The UpTake. 

Minnesotans saw a strange spectacle Wednesday — and not only the freak funnel cloud that visited Minneapolis. At about the same time, just blocks from where the twister struck downtown, their governor was spouting off on national TV about health care as if nothing had just happened.

Accusing the Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board of trying to “put half-baked ideas on the ballot,” Minneapolis Mayor R.T. Rybak urged voters this afternoon to reject a referendum effort seeking independent taxing authority for the park board. “People need to stop playing petty politics and spreading false fears about non-existent threats,” Rybak said in a statement. [...]