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Bakk names committee leaders for Minnesota Senate

ST. PAUL — Incoming Minnesota Senate Majority Leader Tom Bakk has announced who will lead committees for the next four years. Rod Skoe of Clearbrook, representing District 2, has been...

news / region Thu, Nov 15, 2012 - 10:16pm

Skoe, Saxhaug named Senate committee chairs

ST. PAUL -- Incoming Minnesota Senate Majority Leader Tom Bakk has announced who will lead committees for the next four years. Rod Skoe of Clearbrook, representing District 2, has been...

news / local Thu, Nov 15, 2012 - 10:08am

Senate District 5: Saxhaug wins newly redrawn district

BEMIDJI – Redrawn district lines pitted incumbents against each other in the Senate District 5 race, with Tom Saxhaug beating out John Carlson in Tuesday’s election for the seat. In...

news / local Thu, Nov 08, 2012 - 12:28am

Minnesota’s Republican U.S. Senate candidate, Kurt Bills, looks through a federal budget report. Bills often complains that U.S. Sen. Amy Klobuchar does too little to pass a balanced budget. Don Davis | Bemidji Pioneer

Bills’ experience with federal government forms his message

BLOOMINGTON – Federal government requirements on a home day care center his wife runs illustrate why Kurt Bills wants to be a U.S. senator. Bills and his wife, Cindy, spend...

news Sun, Oct 21, 2012 - 12:51am

David Shribman column: Matter of survival

The U.S. Senate is an exclusive but peculiar American institution, its members elected by democratic means but its pace and processes guided by anti-democratic instincts. It is small, intimate. The...

opinion / commentary Wed, Oct 17, 2012 - 2:06am

Saxhaug leading Pederson in Senate District 5 primary

The race for Senate District 5 will be between two existing senators due to redistricting. In the DFL primary vote for District 5 Tuesday, current District 5 Sen. Tom Saxhaug,...

news / local Tue, Aug 14, 2012 - 11:40pm

Senate election trial: Date miscues raise ballot questions

ST. PAUL -- Al Franken wants 60 rejected St. Louis County absentee ballots added to November's election tally even though dates on related paperwork do not match. St. Louis County...

news Fri, Mar 06, 2009 - 1:10am