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W hen the Leadership Emergence and Development Project started in 2006, eight people in their 20s and early 30s wanted to get their generation active in the local philanthropic community.

The current city manager of Madison, Minn., was approved Wednesday night as the next city administrator of Milford.

Jim Meffert of Edina will seek the DFL nomination to to run for Congress in the west suburban Third Congressional District.

Categories Archives << Werd! One of the worst kept secrets around has been that Allen Quist was going to run against Tim 'Washington' Walz.

Realtor Jerry Teeson of Coon Rapids was one of two real estate agents nationwide to receive a Distinguished Service award from the National Association of Realtors , the association announced Monday.

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.