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<title>LIVE: Vikings stadium deal announcement</title>
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<description>Live blog of announcement regarding a deal to build a new Vikings stadium near the site of the Metrodome.</description>
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<title>Court pairs 30 incumbents in the Minnesota House</title>
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<description>Minnesota House members and districts affected by the court-ordered redistricting plan.</description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 21 Feb 2012 16:30:17 CST</pubDate>
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<title>Side-by-sides of the new congressional districts</title>
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<description>Below are side by side comparisons of Minnesota&apos;s current and new congressional districts. Click on each to get a larger view. Click here to find MPR&apos;s awesome interactive maps where you can type in your own information and find out...</description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 21 Feb 2012 16:00:50 CST</pubDate>
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<title>16 incumbents paired in MN Senate; 8 open seats</title>
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<description>Minnesota state senators and districts affected by the court-ordered redistricting plan</description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 21 Feb 2012 14:56:28 CST</pubDate>
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<title>Compare old, new congressional districts</title>
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<description>MPR News has put together an easy to use and understand side-by-side comparison of Minnesota&apos;s existing congressional district boundaries and how they will change this fall. You can search by street address. This is the best of the mapping bunch....</description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 21 Feb 2012 14:30:43 CST</pubDate>
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<title>A quick look at Minnesota legislative boundaries</title>
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<description>We&apos;re still trying to digest the detail on Minnesota&apos;s new legislative boundaries for state lawmakers. Here are the maps, though. DV.load(&apos;http://www.documentcloud.org/documents/296507-legislative-redistricting-maps.js&apos;, { width: 575, height: 500, sidebar: false, text: false, container: &quot;#DV-viewer-296507-legislative-redistricting-maps&quot; }); You can find them all here, under...</description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 21 Feb 2012 14:00:40 CST</pubDate>
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<title>Here are the redistricting maps and final orders</title>
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<description>Maps for the court-ordered congressional district changes.</description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 21 Feb 2012 13:47:49 CST</pubDate>
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<title>AP: Bachmann plans to seek old 6th District seat</title>
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<description>AP: Bachmann won&apos;t challenge McCollum in reconstructed district.</description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 21 Feb 2012 13:37:30 CST</pubDate>
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<title>Redistricting map sets up Bachmann vs McCollum</title>
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mail@mpr.org
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<description>MPR News political reporters and editors are analyzing the new congressional redistricting maps that came out a few minutes ago. Here are the highlights. -- Republican Rep. Michele Bachmann and DFL Rep. Betty McCollum are set up for a possible...</description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 21 Feb 2012 13:08:34 CST</pubDate>
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<title>Congressional Redistricting map is in</title>
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mail@mpr.org
(Paul Tosto)
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<description>Get &apos;em before the site crashes!
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<pubDate>Tue, 21 Feb 2012 13:05:55 CST</pubDate>
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<title>GOP poised  to benefit from redistricting?</title>
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<description>Legislative maps will reflect population shifts over the past decade and those shifts have put a lot more people into Republican leaning suburbs.</description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 21 Feb 2012 10:24:02 CST</pubDate>
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<title>Latest stories, insights on Minnesota redistricting</title>
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<description>Get caught up on Minnesota redistricting before the 1 p.m. map release</description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 21 Feb 2012 08:58:20 CST</pubDate>
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<title>First look today at maps redrawing Minnesota politics</title>
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<description>At 1 p.m. today, a court panel unveils its plan to redraw Minnesota&apos;s legislative and congressional boundaries.</description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 21 Feb 2012 06:20:58 CST</pubDate>
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<title>LIVE BLOG: The State of the State</title>
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mail@mpr.org
(Jon Gordon)
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<description>A live blog for Governor Dayton&apos;s 2012 State of the State address.</description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 15 Feb 2012 18:45:00 CST</pubDate>
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<title>Lots of ways to catch tonight&apos;s State of the State</title>
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mail@mpr.org
(Paul Tosto)
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<description>Can&apos;t make it to the Capitol? There are plenty of ways to hear and watch Gov. Mark Dayton&apos;s State of the State speech at 7 p.m. Besides our MPR News broadcast, it&apos;ll be on the Twin Cities Public Television Minnesota...</description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 15 Feb 2012 15:58:11 CST</pubDate>
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