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News Source: Politico
| 4 months ago
And summer break has finally come for Larry Jacobs, chair of the political science department at the University of Minnesota, who achieved near omnipresence the last several months. Since the rest of the country knew only so much about the great...
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News Source: Augusta Daily Gazette
| 4 months ago
We can forgive you if you accidentally elect a pro wrestler as your governor. After all, even though you may have 10,000 lakes, they are frozen over most of the time and we are not going to move there. But when you send a guy who played Stuart...
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News Source: Uinta County News
| 4 months ago
The Minnesota Supreme Court on Tuesday unanimously voted to uphold Al Franken's (D) win in the 2008 U.S. Senate election in Minnesota, effectively clearing the way for Franken to become the state's newest senator, the Wall Street Journal reports. His...
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News Source: Minneapolis Star Tribune
| 4 months ago
Just a couple of days after returning from a Washington education summit, Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty is headed west Thursday for another forum on the topic. Pawlenty will be in Aspen, Colorado until Friday for the 2009 Aspen Ideas Festival...
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News Source: Star Tribune
| 4 months ago
A new segment of the Paul Bunyon State Trail is completed and open to the public. The state Department of Natural Resources said the trail now is paved on the 11.5 miles between Bemidji and Guthrie. It mainly follows the old Burlington Northern Santa...
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News Source: United Press International
| 4 months ago
Senate's Democratic fold may give the party a supermajority, but using that leverage may remain difficult, lawmakers say The absence of two Democrats because of illnesses, senators' ideologies and some members' willingness to break ranks won't make...
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News Source: The Tribune
| 4 months ago
The man who lost the 1998 Minnesota governor's race to pro wrestler Jesse Ventura now holds the distinction of losing his U.S. Senate seat to former "Saturday Night Live" comedian Al Franken. But it's a testament to Norm Coleman's political...
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News Source: Associated Press
| 4 months ago
The jokes about Minnesota's prolonged recount can finally stop, just in time for Democrats to secure a reliable vote from a former funny man...Within minutes of a Minnesota Supreme Court ruling that ended the state's eight-month recount in Franken's...
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News Source: The Journal Gazette
| 4 months ago
Senate race in Minnesota, the Republican Party plans to pursue a two-pronged strategy. Their plan is to seek to pull moderate Democrats away from President Obama on key votes and blame Democrats for the results of any policy failure in Washington.
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News Source: Israel National News
| 4 months ago
For the first time in 50 years, the Republican Party does not have a Jewish senator in the U.S. federal government. Norm Colman, a Jewish senatorial candidate from Minnesota, lost to Al Franken...In the mid- 90s, the Senate had eight Republican...