Guess which news organization broke the news that Al Franken is moving back to town to kick start a potential 2008 run for the Senate? Nope, not the Strib. Nope, not those scrappers on the other side of the river. Yes, that’s right, it was Pulse of the Twin Cities.
Haha, gotcha! — it was actually Salon.com. The story says that after being away for three decades, Franken is moving back to Minneapolis with his radio show (and, completely burying the lead, presumably Katherine Lanpher). Salon reports that Franken will be getting an apartment in Minneapolis, and in the comments you can try to guess where.
12 Reader Comments
2:14 am
Minnetonka, all the way.
8:05 am
Eagan
10:11 am
Crossroads apartment complex, in Richfield. They’ve got a $99 move-in special.
11:10 am
I thought I already read that he had bought a Mill City condo?!?
11:15 am
Where’d you read that?
11:35 am
Cloud 9 Sky Flats in Minnetonka look inviting, but I would go for that cool looking condo building next to the Walker Sculpture Garden.
12:08 pm
I heard Mill City too, but that may have been from Mark. It makes sense though. To read that Salon article, with Franken sipping a latte in the half-lotus, he and his family might be thinking city living.
3:24 pm
Sure he can afford the fancy condo-schmondo but I’m wagering on a basement apartment in Stevens Square.
11:01 pm
Update: The Rake also came to the conclusion that the local media missed this story, but has posted an update about how you can find a tidbit buried in the archives somewhere. If a Franken falls in the paid archives and there’s no one there to hear it, does it happen?
5:52 pm
You know, I’d offer up our spare bedroom in St. Louis Park, after my sister moves out, but I bet he snores.
5:54 pm
He would never live in minnetonka…
6:16 pm
katherine lanpher can live w/ me. I’ll even be her designated driver…
from where will they be doing the show?