Kelliher News

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.

A 25-year-old mother of four fatally shot the children's father in the back of the head in their northern Minnesota home and then tried to pin some of the blame on their 3-year-old son before confessing, according to charges filed today.

At least in Minnesota. Next April, the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor party will hold a convention where they will likely endorse a candidate for Governor.

Investigators have arrested a woman in the shooting death of a 27-year-old man in northern Minnesota.

Minnesota House Speaker Margaret Anderson Kelliher, one of nearly a dozen DFL candidates for governor, sent out a new list today of endorsements from public officials.

A man was injured in a shooting in Beltrami County on Tuesday morning. The Beltrami County Sheriff's Office went to a residence in Shooks Township.

DFL legislative leaders and Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty are going to start talking about the 2010 legislative session, which is expected to including lots of discussion about the state's budget problems, tomorrow.

ST. PAUL, Minn. -- It's up or out of Minnesota government for Republican state Rep.

Rep. Marty Seifert, R-Marshall, will announce at the Capitol today that he's joining the club of folks who will not seek their current political jobs if they do not win their party's nod for governor, according to a report in his hometown paper.

Share + Oct 14, 2009 12:04 pm US/Central QUIRING TOWNSHIP, Minn. A lost hunter who wasn't wearing any shoes and socks was found overnight after authorities were able to track him down because of his cell phone signal.

Interesting news via Rachel Stassen-Berger: House Speaker Margaret Anderson Kelliher, a Minneapolis Democrat running for governor, won't be coming back to the Minnesota House for the 2011 session.

St. Paul, MN -- Building on the bipartisan recommendations of the Minnesota Leadership Summit, Senate Majority Leader Larry Pogemiller and Speaker of the House Margaret Anderson Kelliher today announced the appointment of 10 lawmakers to the newly formed Subcommittee on a Balanced Budget.

House Speaker Margaret Anderson Kelliher, DFL-Minneapolis, in July announced the House Jobs Task Force with the stated intention of crafting legislation for the 2010 legislative session that would increase jobs in Minnesota.

Minneapolis DFLers practiced Ranked Choice Voting last Tuesday night, in lieu of the traditional Primary Election Day.