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Jeanne Martin, co-chair of the Minnesota Coalition Against Sexual Assault's public policy committee, testified that 61000 Minnesota residents are sexually assaulted each year and that such violence costs the state $8 billion annually. ...

On health bill, Peterson a 'no,' Oberstar undecided · In new web ad, Clark hits Bachmann on Social Security · Minnesota Family Council pushes marriage amendment, Sen. Marty pushes back · 'South Park' to reference Blackwater gun fiasco ...

In the pre-Google era, Al Franken had a stint for the Duluth Convention and Visitors Bureau as the “Duluth Answer Man,” a font of knowledge about Minnesota's third-largest city. In a new video, via Perfect Duluth Day, Sen. ...

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ST. PAUL, Minn. - The Minnesota House has approved a $1 billion construction projects bill, sending it on to the Senate for another vote. The House vote was 89-44 on Thursday. The votes come a day after Gov. Tim Pawlenty said he was inclined to sign ...

What would the elderly ladies of South Florida have been without the delightfully naïve Rose Nylund? When she wasn’t regaling Dorothy, Blanche, and Ma (aka Bea Arthur, Rue McClanahan, and Estelle Getty) with tales of her quaint, cow-filled ...

WASHBURN, N.D.—A Minnesota man has been sentenced in North Dakota to 15 years in prison for starting another man's van on fire while the man was inside. Fifty-three-year-old Joseph Carpenter was convicted of felony endangering by fire or explosion ...

Are there enough votes in the House to pass the Senate's health-care bill? As of today, it's clear there aren't. House Democratic leaders have brushed aside White House calls to bring the bill forward by March 18, when President Barack Obama heads to ...

Minnesota Public Radio reports Senate finance committee chairman Richard Cohen plans to hold a hearing on the interagency staffing agreements within the next two weeks. The Pioneer Press is happy to host community conversations about news and life in ...

A Minnesota Senate leader plans to hold a hearing on concerns that Gov. Tim Pawlenty is siphoning staff from other state agencies for use in his own office. DFL Sen. Don Betzold wants to cut $1 million from the governor's operating budget. Betzold ...

Sen. Al Franken will be the latest in a line of politicians to be featured in a biographic comic book from Bluewater Productions. The comic, called "Political Power: Al Franken," will profile Franken's time at Saturday Night Live, his radio talk show ...

He notes, "There are 10,000 fewer students in Minnesota schools than there were in 2002, yet there are 65,000 more students on free and reduced lunch." The anticipated debate over the racino-gets-you-a-Vikings stadium-and-everything-else-you-could ...

The American Civil Liberties Union was granted permission today by the Minnesota Court of Appeals to file a “friend of the court” brief in Idaho Sen. Larry Craig’s appeal there, just as it did in Craig’s failed attempt at the District Court ...

If you read through the transcript of Sen. Larry Craig’s Minnesota court hearing, one thing stands out: Judge Charles Porter doesn’t appear to be buying Craig’s attorneys’ arguments at all. That news was somewhat eclipsed on Wednesday by the ...