Category Archives: Minnesota Governor

Portrait of the Week: Steve Kaplan

Posted on 03/11/2013, 8:51 pm, by Kevin Featherly

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Election Night 2012, A Visual Record

Posted on 11/07/2012, 9:54 pm, by Kevin Featherly

I went to the DFL election party in St. Paul, Minn., not really as a working journalist, but just to take it all in and snap a few photos. I ended up shooting more than 400. I learned something important. … Continue reading →

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Photo of the Day: Tom Dooher

Posted on 11/02/2012, 9:07 am, by Kevin Featherly

I sat with Tom Dooher late last week, interviewing him for an upcoming Capitol Report profile, and snapped a few pictures. This one is among the nicest of the bunch. Dooher, 49, is president of the 70,000-member Education Minnesota union, … Continue reading →

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Photo of the Day

Posted on 09/11/2012, 2:35 pm, by Kevin Featherly

I interviewed Art Rolnick yesterday at the Humphrey School of Public Policy to talk about his ongoing work in early childhood education, and snapped this photo. Not a particularly artful image, but it puts across Art’s intensity and singleness of … Continue reading →

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Tom Horner Says No to Gay Marriage Ban

Posted on 03/21/2012, 5:22 pm, by Kevin Featherly

Tom Horner, the respected, centrist 2010 Independence Party candidate for governor–and former Republican–has come out against the constitutional ban on gay marriage in Minnesota. The party has posted a video containing his statement. Watch it here:

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Minnesota’s Surprise Surplus

Posted on 12/01/2011, 3:04 pm, by Kevin Featherly

I don’t have time to analyze this in any detail because I am on deadline on a magazine piece. But I thought I’d share this press release from Minnesota Management and Budget’s John Pollard, which tells the story pretty well. … Continue reading →

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Pawlenty Bails

Posted on 08/14/2011, 8:25 am, by Kevin Featherly

Republican presidential aspirant Tim Pawlenty has abandoned the presidential race after an anemic straw poll showing in Iowa. So it was for this that Minnesota saw its politics and policy sacrificed on the altar of national political ambition for more … Continue reading →

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The GOP Debate: Kevblog’s Reax

Posted on 08/11/2011, 8:33 pm, by Kevin Featherly

What follows is my not quite real time reactions to tonight’s GOP presidential debate in Iowa. 8:33 p.m. Former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty got tough on Rep. Michele Bachmann tonight in the GOP debate, drawing Bachmann into a verbal fight … Continue reading →

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Sad End to a Major MN Political Footnote

Posted on 08/08/2011, 2:45 pm, by Kevin Featherly

I noticed in a Google search last night that the name of the woman who was killed after an explosion of a house in North Minneapolis was identical to the name of young girl who 21 years ago blew the … Continue reading →

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Gov. Arne Carlson: The Kevblog Interview

Posted on 07/15/2011, 10:06 pm, by Kevin Featherly

I phoned up Republican former Minnesota Gov. Arne Carlson today and asked if he would answer some questions for the Kevblog about Minnesota’s government shutdown and Gov. Mark Dayton’s decision to end it by accepting an existing Republican proposal. We … Continue reading →

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