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ST. PAUL -- There is a political buzz this fall unlike any ever heard around Minnesota. Fourteen months before the next election, the state's political establishment is talking about the...

An excerpt from recent editorials in newspapers in the United States: On the 'Race tothe Top' competition: Earlier secretaries of education can only envy Arne Duncan, the current holder of...

The 6th Congressional District is heating up long before the 2010 election year even arrives. Incumbent Michele Bachmann is seeking re-election.

WASHINGTON -- People say: Why are we still talking about Crowley and Gates? And then they commence to talk for 15 minutes about Crowley and Gates. The reason we persist...

The Green Lake Road Race will start at 7 a.m. Sunday at Melvin's on the Lake in Spicer. Registration is still open. Register online at www.glrr.zapevent.com for $25 or one...

Opinion An excerps from recent editorials in Minnesota newspapers: Get ready for the governor's race. It started with Gov. Tim Pawlenty's announcement that he would not seek a third term...

ST. PAUL - Rep. Marty Seifert steps to the microphone late this morning in what many expect to be the first of many announcements related to Republican governor campaigns. Seifert...

ST. PAUL - Norm Coleman proposes that his and Al Franken's campaigns have until mid-May to file written arguments in the U.S. Senate election case headed for a Minnesota Supreme...

I just returned from visiting my ailing father in Allentown, Pa., where the headline on one article in the local newspaper read "Valley finds itself awash with federal stimulus money."...

SPICER -- Spicer City Council candidates Jerry Reierson and Robin deCathelineau will occupy the city's two vacated council seats beginning in 2009. Reierson and deCathelineau were elected to Spicer's two...

SPICER -- Mayoral challenger Denny Baker upset incumbent Perry Wohnoutka in a landslide victory for Tuesday the Spicer mayor's seat. Baker won with 432 votes to Wohnoutka's 222 votes, with...