150 Minnesota moments we'd just as soon forget

[dflprincess]

I stumbled on this at MinnPost this evening. They originally published last year to observe 150 years of statehood.

A couple samples:

1858
For better or worse, Minnesota is nicknamed the "Gopher State" after the Legislature guarantees a $5 million loan to railroad interests in February. A widely circulated cartoon at the time shows a "railroad car of corrupt men being pulled by nine striped rodents with human heads, representing the people of the territory," according to "Minnesota Book of Days: An Almanac of State History" (Minnesota Historical Society).

2007
Jan. 10 — Fox News Channel's Gretchen Carlson, born in Anoka and crowned Miss America in 1989, refers to U.S. Sen. Ted Kennedy, D-Mass., as a "hostile enemy ... right here on the home front" while interviewing White House counselor Dan Bartlett.

http://www.minnpost.com/stories/2008/07/02/2388/150_minnesota_moments_wed_just_as_soon_forget

http://www.minnpost.com/stories/2008/07/03/2424/part_2_150_minnesota_moments_wed_just_as_soon_forget

http://www.minnpost.com/stories/2008/07/04/2437/part_3_150_minnesota_moments_wed_just_as_soon_forget