The vote between Al Franken and Norm Coleman is quite tight right now, but many precincts in the Arrowhead haven’t reported yet. It looks like ...
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House DFL expects to pick up two seats net
The DFL and the GOP continued to exchange Minnesota House seats as the election results trickled in early Wednesday morning. The DFL House Caucus is ...
Read More »All quiet on the western front (aka Bloomington)
The classic rock tune "Freebird" blared shortly after 7:30 p.m. in the Grand Ballroom at the Sheraton Hotel in Bloomington. But music was just about ...
Read More »Klobuchar: ‘Hope has triumphed over fear’
Sen. Amy Klobuchar addressed an ebullient DFL crowd Tuesday night at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in St. Paul, and she spoke in the past tense. ...
Read More »DFL ‘challenger’ grateful for human contact
Jim Guin of Minnetonka was almost pathetically grateful to find someone to whom he was allowed to talk. Guin spent Tuesday sitting against the wall ...
Read More »‘It’s something we all have the privilege to do and should do’
Voters continued to report long lines but a smooth process at polling places across the Twin Cities on Tuesday. Diane Ostroviak spent almost an hour ...
Read More »All quiet on the western front (aka Bloomington)
The classic rock tune "Freebird" blared shortly after 7:30 p.m. in the Grand Ballroom at the Sheraton Hotel in Bloomington. But music was just about ...
Read More »Barack Obama and Bob Dylan deliver the same message of peace
When I was a little boy, in our house just west of Chicago, my dad, the first full-time civil rights reporter in Chicago, introduced me ...
Read More »Minneapolis student voters turned away from polls
The residents of a 300-person student housing cooperative were turned away from their Minneapolis polling location Tuesday because they provided "non-conforming" proof of residency, according ...
Read More »Klobuchar: ‘Hope has triumphed over fear’
Sen. Amy Klobuchar addressed an ebullient DFL crowd Tuesday night at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in St. Paul, and she spoke in the past tense. ...
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