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    A crowning achievement

    A little over a decade ago, former Minnesota Wild owner Bob Naegele Jr., spent $45 million of his own money to help build the Xcel Energy Center.

    Naegele and then-St. Paul Mayor Norm Coleman are widely credited with bringing NHL hockey back to downtown and helping to transform the state capital from a sleepy city by the Mississippi River to a Midwestern showpiece now hosting the Republican National Convention.

    As the nation focuses its attention on the Xcel and St. Paul, this week could be viewed as yet another one of Naegele's crowning achievements. (Naegele, 68, sold the Wild for a reported $260 million earlier this year.) But as Minnpost's Roxane Battle discovered, Naegele will be among several notable Republicans who have opted to skip the convention — but not for reasons you might think.




     

     

    GOP Convention | Mon, Sep 1 2008 12:34 pm

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    Roxane Battle has worked in local television news for more than 20 years and is a former television news anchor and reporter for the Minneapolis NBC-affiliate, KARE-TV, where she received several Emmy nominations and Minnesota press awards. She is married to a minister and consults, writes and produces for her husband's world-wide television broadcast. She covers the various communities within the Twin Cities area. Battle can be reached at rbattle [at] minnpost [dot] com.

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