SENATE
Legislative & political notebook: News story clouds university budget
By Don Davis The University of Minnesota prepares to ask legislators to approve a $1.8 billion budget as some lawmakers question a Wall Street Journal story that showed the school has an excessive ...
Posted on 1/11/13 at 6:49 PM
Board set to examine Senate ballots
ST. PAUL – The state Canvassing Board begins what is expected to be a four-day meeting today, with the goal of determining who won Minnesota's U.S. Senate race.
By Don Davis , December 16, 2008
Senate race loses some significance
ST. PAUL – Al Franken no longer can be considered the potential 60th vote.
By Scott Wente , December 03, 2008
Court may decide Senate race
ST. PAUL – More than 3,000 Minnesota campaign volunteers and official election workers are wrapping up recounting 2.9 million ballots from U.S. Senate race, with at least 300 paid and unpaid attorneys watching.
By Don Davis , November 28, 2008
Candidates trade barbs in final debate
ST. PAUL – The country's costliest U.S. Senate campaign left those at the candidates' final debate Sunday thinking it could be the nastiest, too.
By Scott Wente , November 03, 2008
Senate race a fiscal record-setter
Minnesota NewsST. PAUL – The candidates likely will spend more than $30 million on Minnesota’s U.S. Senate race. That’s just the half of it – literally.
By Scott Wente , October 27, 2008
Gun issue fires up Senate hopefuls
ST. PAUL – Al Franken suggested he and Republican Sen. Norm Coleman agree on gun rights.
By Scott Wente , October 27, 2008
Pick an issue and the top three candidates seem to be on another page
ST. PAUL — Minnesota’s U.S. Senate race pits a former war protester against two candidates who protest continuing the Iraq war.
By Scott Wente , October 21, 2008
2 run quiet Senate campaigns
Minnesota NewsST. PAUL – More than just the "big three" are seeking Minnesota’s U.S. Senate seat, although the "other two" are mostly invisible.
By Scott Wente , October 16, 2008
Senate candidates lay out differences
Minnesota NewsGOLDEN VALLEY, Minn. – Sen. Norm Coleman said he has demonstrated the courage to make difficult decisions while building a record of bipartisan accomplishment.
By Scott Wente , October 13, 2008
Senate candidates agree to debates
Minnesota NewsST. PAUL – Candidates in Minnesota's U.S. Senate race will debate five times before the Nov. 4 election.
By Scott Wente , September 22, 2008
Ventura out of Senate race
Minnesota State NewsST. PAUL – One of the country's most expensive U.S. Senate races may not be quite as entertaining as it could have been, with former Minnesota Gov. Jesse Ventura declining to run.
By Don Davis, Minn. State Capitol Bureau Chief , July 15, 2008
Minnesota race part of fight for Senate
Minnesota NewsWASHINGTON -- Huddled in the Ronald Reagan Republican Center near Capitol Hill, GOP staffers pore over Al Franken’s three decades of work as a satirist and liberal author, searching for politically lethal material.
By Scott Wente , July 11, 2008
Senate candidates kick off campaign season
Minnesota State NewsST. PAUL – On the day Senate candidate Al Franken kicked off a recent campaign tour around Minnesota, Sen. Norm Coleman hopped a flight to Washington for his job on Capitol Hill.
By Scott Wente, Minn. Capitol Bureau , June 16, 2008
Senate backs foreclosure delay
ST. PAUL – Senators said they were responding Monday to reckless residential mortgage lending practices when they approved a plan giving some homeowners facing foreclosure temporary reprieve.By Scott Wente, Minn. Capitol Bureau , May 06, 2008
Senate approves public works plan
State NewsST. PAUL – The march toward confrontation continued Tuesday when senators overwhelmingly passed a public works funding bill $140 million richer than Gov. Tim Pawlenty wants.
By Don Davis, Minn. State Capitol Bureau Chief , March 05, 2008
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