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Democrat Margaret Anderson Kelliher has picked up her second union endorsement in the governor's race.The international union of operating engineers local 49 says it's backing the house speaker because she created jobs by overturning Governor Tim Pawlenty's veto of a transportation spending package early last year.The operating engineers represents ...

Dancers from Minnesota Dance Theatre, holding aloft painted shovels, symbolically broke ground Thursday on the Minnesota Shubert Center in downtown Minneapolis.

After a comprehensive interview and screening process, the International Union of Operating Engineers Local 49 has endorsed Speaker of the House, Rep.

Last update: November 20, 2009 - 1:50 PM House Speaker Margaret Anderson Kelliher picked up a third endorsement today.

A smaller government employees union is splitting from its larger cousin to back Democrat Margaret Anderson Kelliher for governor.

Minnesota House Speaker Margaret Anderson Kelliher reports another union endorsement in her bid for the DFL endorsement in the 2010 governor's race.

Democrat Margaret Anderson Kelliher has picked up her second union endorsement in the governor's race.

November 17 the DFL-controlled Rules Committee in the Minnesota House voted along party lines to join a lawsuit opposing Governor Pawlentya s budget balancing actions in June.A This action to challenge Gov.

A Rasmussen Reports poll released Monday found Norm Coleman with 50 percent support among likely Republican voters in the 2010 Minnesota governor's race.

By Doug Grow Thursday, Nov. 12, 2009 Speaker Margaret Anderson Kelliher There was a big smile on House Speaker Margaret Anderson Kelliher's face today and likely a big sense of relief in her political soul.

Projected deficits and unalottments notwithstanding, talk of a new Vikings stadium continues at the Legislature, and now House Speaker Margaret Anderson Kelliher wants to bring that discussion out of the Capitol corridors and into public view.

The Minnesota Association of Professional Employees is endorsing Speaker of the House Margaret Anderson Kelliher for governor.

Minnesota's second largest state employee union is lending its backing to Democratic candidate Margaret Anderson Kelliher in the 2010 governor's race.

Minnesota's DFL party will hold three debates in the next five weeks for its gubernatorial candidates.

Gustavus Adolphus College in St. Peter reports that 11 candidates for governor in 2010 have confirmed that they will participate in tonight's public forum.

Last update: November 6, 2009 - 6:57 PM The Minnesota campaign finance board ruled that Minneapolis Mayor R.T. Rybak spent money on a gubernatorial campaign months before he filed the requisite paperwork do to so, according to a board decision made public today.

After seven years of budget battles, Gov. Tim Pawlenty on Thursday proposed a constitutional amendment to limit state spending.

Several state legislators with impeccable voting records on environmental issues were knocked down a peg in a conservation advocacy groupa s annual legislative scorecard released this week.

I am surprised that there are 25 people who would want the job considering what lies ahead.

Submitted by Journal Staff on October 26, 2009 - 1:43pm. Police Reports Betsy M. Hanks, 25, was taken into custody Friday by investigators with the Beltrami Sheriffa s Office and Bureau of Criminal Apprehension in connection with a shooting death in Shooks Township near Kelliher earlier in the week.