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Franni Franken pauses during her lunch at a Mexican restaurant on Capitol Hill to extract a green flash drive from her purse.

While a large pack of Democratic and Republican gubernatorial candidates has roamed across Minnesota for months clamoring for attention, the state's third and smallest "major party," the Independence Party, has yet to field a single credible contender.

Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty's will return to Washington, DC next month -- this time he's going for the National Republican Senatorial Committee.

Safe prediction: This extremely reasonable and wise column will be a magnet for the wackos who so often populate the comments section.

Share + Oct 14, 2009 5:45 pm US/Central Reporting Pat Kessler ST. PAUL Vice President Joe Biden will be in Minnesota on Thursday, but you probably won't have a chance to see him.

The Minnesota Business Partnership's annual dinner tonight was awash in candidates for governor.

The two decades span a generation of celebrations of our fathers, mothers, sons, daughters and other loved ones who have been returned to us from the torments of addiction.

If you've noticed that Tim Pawlenty seems to be traveling around a lot, you're not alone .

Joseph Califano Jr., a former U.S. Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, speaks in Edina tonight on how parents can raise drug-free kids.

We helped gather a group of 'formers' and local think-tank leaders on Friday to talk about Minnesota's huge budget problem.

This September marks the 20th National Alcohol and Drug Addiction Recovery Month.

'I challenge anyone. . . anyone to call this project pork,' Ramstad of the Hwy. 610 extension.

Council member Paul Meunier rode a tide of enthusiasm to defeat incumbent Mayor Gary Kirkeide and challenger Dougie Schumacher in Ham Lake's election for mayor Tuesday.

For more than a year, America has known it would lose the great senator fromf Massachusetts.

Share + Aug 26, 2009 5:45 pm US/Central Reporting Pat Kessler ST. PAUL 1 of 1 Kennedy's brain cancer kept him away from the most recent health care debate.

Past and current Minnesota members of Congress praised the late Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., as a liberal stalwart who nonetheless knew how to build consensus on tough issues: Former Sen.

S tephen Ubl admits he was a tiny bit nervous. The Mounds View native was headed to the White House last May to chew over health care reform with President Obama and several titans of the industry, and he wasn't sure whether he'd be called upon to speak up for the medical technology industry.

S tephen Ubl admits he was a tiny bit nervous. The Mounds View native was headed to the White House last May to chew over health care reform with President Obama and several titans of the industry, and he wasn't sure whether he'd be called upon to speak up for the medical technology industry.

S tephen Ubl admits he was a tiny bit nervous. The Mounds View native was headed to the White House last May to chew over health care reform with President Obama and several titans of the industry, and he wasn't sure whether he'd be called upon to speak up for the medical technology industry.

Former Gov. Jesse Ventura has faded from public life in Minnesota. He was a national celebrity and a ubiquitous cable-television presence during his governorship.