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Molnau finds something to get re-elected to

By Chris Steller | 08.22.09 | 10:17 am

Carol Molnau, Minnesota’s lieutenant governor and former transportation commissioner, has been re-elected chair of the National Lieutenant Governors Association’s (NLGA) Midwest Region.

Holtz pondered Congress, now says he’ll keep Perpich pledge: no politics

By Chris Steller | 08.06.09 | 12:41 pm

One-time University of Minnesota football coach Lou Holtz now says he’s not mulling a run for Congress in Florida, as reported. If so, he’d be keeping a promise made in 1983 to the late Rudy…

South Carolina’s AWOL Sanford recalls Minnesota’s missing Gov. Perpich

By Chris Steller | 06.24.09 | 8:25 am

South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford is due back at work today following a mysterious several-day absence. For Minnesotans whose memories extend to the 1970s, news of an AWOL governor evokes the early days of Gov. Rudy Perpich’s first term…