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The article focuses on the transition of the Minnesota Legislature from Republican control to Democratic control. The author discusses the legislature's tradition of granting offices in the building directly across from the Capitol by party control. The article also focuses on the desire by many Democrats to pursue a moderate political agenda. The role of U.S. President George W. Bush's low popularity ratings in the Democratic election victory is also discussed.

Focuses on teenager Jeff Weise, who killed 10 people at an Indian reservation in Red Lake, Minnesota. Biographical details; Investigation into the shootings at Red Lake High School, and Weise's suicide; Comments of Floyd Jourdain, chairman of the tribal council of the Red Lake Band of Chippewa; Eye-witness accounts by students; How the shootings represent the deadliest school rampage since 15 people died at Columbine High School near Littleton, Colorado; Weise's attraction to Goth culture and neo-Nazism; Details of the elaborately orchestrated, efficient rampage; Reactions of American Indian leaders in Minnesota and around the country.

CENTRAL CITY, Colo. -- Selling hardware in small-town Minnesota might not be the traditional route to an operatic career. And selling mugs and T-shirts in an opera house gift shop is also at least several steps removed from Laura Pancoast's dream of life on the stage -- and of tragic death each night as a doomed, love-besotted soprano. But in an unlikely plot twist that Puccini himself might have smiled upon, it was Ms. Pancoast's high school experience selling hammers and pruning saws at Hardware Hank in Thief River Falls, Minn. -- and not her voice -- that turned the key in landing her a summer job here at the Central City Opera. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The still-undecided Senate election in Minnesota appeared to be entering the home stretch on Friday, hinging on perhaps 1,500 absentee ballots that were rejected by local precinct officials and might be tallied by late next week. Those votes, given the hair's-breadth margin separating Senator Norm Coleman, a Republican, and his Democratic challenger, Al Franken, could easily decide the election. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The article offers information on the scenario of the state government of Minnesota. It refers to the clash between Republican John Berns and Democrat John Benson over issues related to tax increases on wealthy, college tuition incentives for illegal immigrants and raise in state's gasoline tax. It refers to the democrats' legislative plans and role of the state governor in the same.

The article focuses on the growing role of women in the state legislature of Minnesota. Victory of three Democratic women leaders in Woodbury, Minnesota in the U.S. Congressional election held in 2006 prompted 14 other Democratic women leaders to face election and won seats in the House of Representatives in Minnesota. These representatives are focusing on issues, including property tax, school and health care.

Reports on the impact of the crime committed by a 16-year old boy on causing grief and trauma to Chippewa Indians in Minnesota.

Presents an overview of the final days of the 2004 U.S. presidential campaign. How the close contest between President George W. Bush and Senator John Kerry depends most on three key states: Florida, Pennsylvania and Ohio; Political advertising in these states; Outlook for the so-called ground war, the effort by both parties to get supporters to the polls; Possibility of lawsuits in multiple states; Significance of the huge numbers of newly registered voters; Reports on the battleground states of Arkansas, Colorado, Florida, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Mexico, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. INSET: Where the Candidates Are Chasing Votes.