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Latest Minnesota News

Franken Likely To Take Senate Seat on Tuesday (CQPolitics.com)
CQPolitics.com - Senate Democratic leaders are inching closer to seating Democrat Al Franken as the junior senator from Minnesota and clinching control, at least on paper, of 60 votes.

GOP's Coleman could eye Minn. governor run next (AP)

AP - The man who lost the 1998 Minnesota governor's race to pro wrestler Jesse Ventura now holds the distinction of losing his U.S. Senate seat to former "Saturday Night Live" comedian Al Franken.

Franken to give Democrats a boost on key issues (AP)

AP - The jokes about Minnesota's prolonged recount can finally stop, just in time for Democrats to secure a reliable vote from a former funny man.

GOP: 60 Votes Will Haunt Democrats at Ballot Box (CQPolitics.com)
CQPolitics.com - Republicans say Democrat Al Franken's victory in the long-contested Minnesota Senate race opens a new line of attack against Democrats for 2010.

To Be or Not to Be (Counted, That Is)
Three Republican members of the House subcommittee overseeing the 2010 census are asking a fellow Republican, Rep. Michele Bachmann of Minnesota, to back off her boycott of the national population count. Patrick McHenry of North Carolina, Lynn

Cafferty: What will Franken mean for Obama?
Al Franken is headed to Washington. Nearly eight months after Election Day, the Minnesota Supreme Court unanimously declared Franken the state?s next senator. And once he is sworn in ? presumably next week ? the Democrats will finally have their

GOP loses last Jewish senator with Coleman loss (AP)
AP - The defeat of incumbent Norm Coleman in the drawn-out Minnesota Senate race leaves Republicans without a Jewish senator for the first time in half a century.

Which Al Franken will show up in Washington? (AP)

AP - Now that Al Franken is headed for the Senate, which Franken will show up in Washington?

Fineman: What to Expect from Al Franken
Minnesota's new senator is no clown.

Franken says 'I'm not going to waste this chance' (AP)

AP - Sen.-elect Al Franken turned a rally at Minnesota's Capitol on Wednesday into an extended thank-you to supporters, promising not to "waste this chance" in what amounted to a victory speech nearly eight months late.

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Minnesota became the United States thirty-second state on May 11, 1858. The capital is St. Paul. The state's largest city is Minneapolis. Minnesota is a Sioux word for "sky-tinted water". The land area of the Gopher State is 79,617 square miles; in size the 14th state.

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