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Albert Eisele

Albert Eisele, a former Washington correspondent for the Duluth News-Tribune and St. Paul Dispatch and Pioneer Press, is editor-at-large and founding editor of The Hill, a newspaper that covers Congress.

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David Gartner: Former HHH aide watched the master politician up close

By Albert Eisele | 10/07/09
WASHINGTON, D.C. — He was closer to Hubert Humphrey than anyone except Muriel, and probably spent as much time at his side in the last 17 years of Humphrey's life as she did. David Gartner, Humphrey's long-time top aide, died last week.
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Watching Bachmann during Obama's address

By Albert Eisele | 09/11/09
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Sitting directly in front of President Obama six rows back during his speech to Congress, Michele Bachmann made it clear she wasn't there to lend a helping hand to Obama.
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Death of senator from Minnesota still shrouded in mystery

By Albert Eisele | 09/03/09
LOVETTSVILLE, VA. — Paul Wellstone wasn't the first U.S. senator from Minnesota to die in a plane crash. U.S. Sen. Ernest P. Lundeen died 69 years ago this week in a crash that remains shrouded in mystery.
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New ambassador from Minnesota confronts the world of Vatican politics

By Albert Eisele | 08/31/09
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Miguel Diaz is off to Rome as the new U.S. ambassador to the Vatican, and the Cuban-American professor of theology at St. John's University and the College of St. Benedict in Collegeville, Minn., is getting plenty of advice.
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Anatomy of a vote: Freshman Democrat Mark Begich agonized over his decision on Sotomayor

By Albert Eisele | 08/10/09
WASHINGTON, D.C. — It was the most important vote of his fledgling Senate career, maybe one that would determine his future. That's why Sen. Mark Begich agonized for weeks over Sonia Sotomayor's Supreme Court nomination.
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Once again, Minnesotans are back in national limelight

By Albert Eisele | 07/21/09
WASHINGTON, D.C.
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William Norris saw this coming: In business, greed isn't always good

By Albert Eisele | 06/16/09
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Somewhere, the late William C. Norris is thumbing his nose at Wall Street and saying "I told you so."
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How's Obama doing? The view from 'Main Street'

By Albert Eisele | 03/31/09
SAUK CENTRE, Minn. — This socially conservative community that served as the inspiration for native son Sinclair Lewis' 1920 novel "Main Street" gave 63 percent of its vote to Sen. John McCain in November.
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Minnesota insider: Stillwater native joins Obama's national security team

By Albert Eisele | 03/10/09
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Denis McDonough, a 39-year-old Stillwater, Minn., native, is poised to become one of the key players on President Obama's national security and foreign policy team — just as he was when he starred on the St.
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Will Minnesota do more business with Cuba? It depends

By Albert Eisele | 12/02/08
By Albert Eisele | Tuesday, Dec. 2, 2008 HAVANA, CUBA — Fidel Castro and most Cubans hail the election of Barack Obama as a positive sign for U.S.-Cuban relations.