Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan is set deliver the first of the welcoming remarks to the Democratic National Convention in Chicago as Gov. Tim Walz prepares to accept the party’s nomination for vice president. Flanagan is one of the co-chairs of the convention. And, Minnesota remembers George Latimer, who served as mayor of St. Paul from the late 70s to 1990. Latimer was 89.

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