ST. PAUL - Wellstone Action has trained thousands of "progressive" candidates and campaign workers, and claimed to have helped 1,000 get elected. Their website describes the group's mission: "Founded ...

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) -- Green lawn signs touting Paul Wellstone for Senate were wrapped with black ribbons in some locations Friday to mourn the passing of one of the country's most liberal and fiery ...

FAYAL TOWNSHIP -- Democratic Sen. Tom Harkin of Iowa stood in the snow for a moment Thursday afternoon away from the rest of the crowd, his face somber, his umbrella dripping. "Paul Wellstone was the ...

A few months after U.S. Sen. Paul Wellstone died in a plane crash a new bumper sticker surfaced on a few Minnesota cars. "Park the bus." It was a conservative jab referring not only to the old, green ...

We should pause in our pursuit of the current hurly-burly to take note of the fact that Monday would have been Senator Paul Wellstone’s eightieth birthday. It’s almost impossible to imagine him at ...

THE LAST TIME I SAW Democratic Sen. Paul Wellstone of Minnesota, he blushed. It was the third or fourth time he’d been on the “Beltway Boys,” the Fox News Channel show Mort Kondracke and I host, and I ...

DETROIT LAKES, Minn. -- Ted Fiskevold held up a piece of burned material, then a chunk of fiberglass and a tear-drop-shaped bit of molten metal. They are remnants of an airplane that crashed a year ...

correctionA story in yesterday's editions about the crash of a plane carrying Sen. Paul Wellstone (D-Minn.) said the Eveleth, Minn., airport does not have an instrument landing system. It does not ...

MinnPost’s journalists are out in the community to report on the things that are happening in Minnesota. Your support right now will help fund their work AND keep our news paywall-free. Sen. Tina ...

WASHINGTON -- With somber conviction, difficult words and humorous remembrances, U.S. senators on Tuesday said a public goodbye on the Senate floor to their colleague Sen. Paul Wellstone. Led by ...