Hours after Tuesday's DFL primary, the Minnesota GOP launched a TV ad attack calling DFLer Mark Dayton "erratic" and wondering out loud what frequency he was on.

Around convention time in the spring, Senate Minority Leader Dave Senjem, R-Rochester, boasted that his caucus would retake the chamber’s majority in November. Considering Senate Republicans’ 38-year stranglehold on minority status, and the 13 seats that his troops will need to gain to make good on the pledge, it amounts to a tall order.

Brett Favre’s final playoff pass didn’t get the Minnesota Vikings into the Super Bowl, and it now appears that the team’s last-minute pitch to fund a new stadium will meet a similar fate.

Republicans are sensing blood in the water of more than a dozen state House and Senate districts, and they’re circling.

State lawmakers and agriculture lobbyists are debating how to deal with the escalating property tax bills that are hitting Minnesota farms. And the differences of opinion reach all the way down to House and Senate DFL committee chairs.

Feb. 12 might seem far into the future. But Senate Education Chairman Chuck Wiger sees the start date to next year’s legislative session as right ...