Daily Digest
Minnesota
Department of Employment and Economic Development Commissioner Dan McElroy is on a 10-city tour of Minnesota, talking about the economy. The Strib has a story.
Farmfest opens today. Congressman Tim Walz, Senators Amy Klobuchar and Al Franken and Governor Tim Pawlenty are scheduled to appear. The annual farm exposition near Redwood Falls draws about 35,000 people annually.
Energy Secretary Stephen Chu was in Rochester, talking renewables with CD 1 Democrat Tim Walz. MPR's Tom Weber was there.
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A pair of activists from Minnesota had some kind of run-in with Israeli officials, apparently while attempting to enter the Palestinian territories. They got back to Minnesota to at least some notice on Fox 9. You might recognize one of them, Katrina Plotz, right. She was one of the leaders of the March on the RNC effort last summer. They seem to be exporting the franchise this summer, without the Republicans in town.
2010
Steve Kelley, running again for governor, says he's hired Carrie Lucking as campaign manager. Lucking has a past, as well: she was one of the founders of the effort to block acting education commissioner Cheri Pierson Yecke's confirmation back in 2004. The Kelley campaign says she's a Hopkins social studies teacher and active in Education Minnesota politics.
DC
Minnesota's most peripatetic Congressman, Keith Ellison, is trotting the globe again - this time to Sudan. The Strib has coverage.