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In most school districts, children start school at age 5 when they go to kindergarten.
Hennepin County Attorney Mike Freeman released a video called "Case Closed: Clean Elections in Hennepin County," which touts clean elections and criticizes the voter ID amendment.
Always the bridesmaid, never the bride. An election year with some disappointments turned out well in the end for former Minnesota governor Tim Pawlenty.
So just what are the hottest races in Minnesota this election season? WCCO's Laura Oakes goes Behind the Ballot.
The state Department of Transportation has a nonpartisan reminder for anyone placing campaign signs along public roads: Keep them off the right of way.
The biggest election contest in Minnesota isn't the U.S. Senate race or the Presidential race. It's the campaigns to pass -- or defeat -- the constitutional amendment to define marriage as between one man and one woman.
Democrat Rick Nolan has won the backing of the steelworkers union on the Iron Range as he tries to unseat Republican Rep. Chip Cravaack in northeastern Minnesota.
Hamline University's faculty has voted Wednesday to oppose the marriage amendment, which would change Minnesota's constitution to define marriage as between a man and woman.
In one TV ad, a husband and wife talk fondly of a lesbian couple who moved into their neighborhood. In another, a married couple speaks of wanting fair treatment for their lesbian daughter. A third features a pastor talking supportively about gay unions.
Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar has put down money for the first TV commercial of what's been an unusually quiet U.S. Senate campaign.
Police say a sixth church in Buffalo was apparently another target in a string of vandalism currently being investigated as a possible bias crime. The Buffalo Police chief says damage was discovered at Buffalo United Methodist Church late yesterday afternoon.
People on both sides of the marriage amendment debate are stepping up efforts to get more votes as we get closer to the November ballot.
The Midwest Governors Association will meet in Des Moines and mark the organization's 50th anniversary.
The parents of a gay Minnesota soldier killed in Afghanistan are leading an effort to defeat the proposed marriage amendment.
This year's annual governor's deer-hunting opener will be in Winona.
