Patrick Kessler
@PatKessler
Retired Political Reporter, WCCO-TV/CBS Minneapolis. Political Wonk, KFAN Sports Radio. MN Broadcasters HOF, Class of 2024.
BREAKING: Hulk Hogan dead. Icon. Shocking.
BREAKING: Pro wrestling icon Hulk Hogan has died at 71, the WWE says. cbsn.ws/3IIhRdW
How annoying must it be to travel w @Gaardsy ? Asking for a friend.
Why is this man in such duress? Flight to Vegas is supposed to be fun. @LaVelleNeal
Nicely played, sir. That’s one good looking sandwich!
Our office ordered Cecils deli because we heard @PatKessler talk about them with @DanBarreiroKFAN. Delicious and not $70
Songs better than the original: Joe Cocker, “With A Little Help From My Friends” 20:20 on the tape.
Think about a stage. That stage has Jimmy Page, Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck, Bill Wyman, Charlie Watts, and Joe Cocker at the same time. What you will hear will really be like no other. The songs performed one by one go like this: Stairway to Heaven (Instrumental) Layla With a…
Happy 101st Birthday to my beautiful mother Rose Anderson Kessler! A true Minnesota farm girl who lives her life with faith and joy. Here’s a photo of her at 100 last year.
“No”, I told @mimdaveykessler. “Never. I will NEVER walk our little pug in a stroller.”
She really wants to come outside with us in the 95 degree weather at the cabin, but no.
Bargain
P.J. Fleck gets contract extension while Gophers athletic department anticipates budget deficit startribune.com/gophers-footba…
Respect
As I paid my respects to Speaker Hortman, her husband Mark and their dog, Gilbert, I felt the raw grief of so many Minnesotans. A political assassination is an attack on our State’s heart, no matter our politics or place. President Biden’s attendance today acknowledged that…
This just got real.
Minnesota’s Hormel sues Wisconsin’s Johnsonville alleging stolen sausage secrets startribune.com/hormel-johnson…
This is the song by the Human Beinz we were singing on Bumper to Bumper during our “My First Concert” discussion last week. @DanBarreiroKFAN @Gaardsy
“I wish there was a way to know you're in the good old days before you've actually left them.”
On the 50th Anniversary of “Jaws”: Here’s the terrifying true story of the USS Indianapolis, told in chilling detail in the movie by the shark hunter Captain Quint. From the Kessler newspaper collection archives.
James Taylor in St Paul on Minnesota political shootings: “It’s a huge burden for a community to carry, and we feel it. And we love you.”
MN Dem Senator Tina Smith is not going to let this go.
A top staffer to Sen. Tina Smith emailed Sen. Mike Lee’s top staffers on Monday about “how much additional pain you’ve caused on an unspeakably horrific weekend” Full email below
MN Dem Sen Tina Smith is on assassin suspect hit list.
Tina Smith D-MN on her talk to Mike Lee R-UT: "I think that he honestly, he seemed a little surprised to be confronted."
Per @PaulBlume_FOX9, murder charges include weapons police found in suspect’s car: 3 AK-47 assault rifles, 9mm handgun, disassembled 9mm handgun, list of names/addresses of public officials.
Suspected political assassin arrested alive in Minnesota, ending two day manhunt.
BREAKING: Vance Boelter has been arrested alive, sources are confirming with FOX 9. Boelter is the suspect who assassinated Minnesota Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband, and injured Sen. John Hoffman and his wife. Rep. Hortman and her husband Mark were fatally shot in their…