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DFL Gov. Mark Dayton will tour flooded areas around the state again today. He says a special session is a last resort. (

And Dayton seems to be acting like a (gasp!) candidate (

DFL Sen. Al Franken has released his fourth TV ad of the campaign. In it, he claims he took on Wall Street. (

Local governments in Minnesota spent more than $8 million to lobby other units of government in 2013, according to a new report from the state auditor, a three percent rise from the year before. (

8th Congresstional District Republican candidate Stewart Mills gets noticed by Politico for his hair and policy chops. (

And 3rd District U.S. Rep. Erik Paulsen has written a letter to the president signed by a bipartisan group of his colleagues asking for a new choice for ambassador to Norway. Here's a story we did on the current choice. (

The Obama administration held the first-ever White House Summit on Working Families on Monday. Keeping the focus on topics like paid leave, equal pay and workplace flexibility is seen by Democrats as a winning strategy in the midterm elections. (

The Supreme Court mostly validated the EPA's plans to regulate power plant and factory emissions of greenhouse gases blamed for global warming while imposing some limits on the agency’s reach. (

Secretary of State John Kerry said on Monday that the Sunni militants seizing territory in Iraq had become such a threat that the United States might not wait for Iraqi politicians to form a new government before taking military action. (

Politico gets a peek into the activities of the Democracy Alliance, a big money liberal group that's trying to counter the Koch brothers network on the right. (

It's election day in some state. In Oklahoma, voters are choosing between two very conservative, but very different candidates to replace retiring Sen. Tom Coburn. (

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Good morning! Minnesota DFL Gov. Mark Dayton will tour flooded areas around the state again today. He says a special session is a last resort. (MPR News) And Dayton seems to be acting like a (gasp!) candidate (Star Tribune) DFL Sen. Al Franken has released his fourth TV ad of the campaign. In it, he…

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