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Nikki Tundel
St. Paul, Minn.

Inauguration Day for Minnesota's 40th governor

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J.D. Steele leads the MacPhail Community Youth Choir through a rehearsal as guests make their way to their seats. The youth choir performed at the inauguration ceremony for Governor Mark Dayton at the Landmark Center in St. Paul, Minn., on January 3, 2011.
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Dayton signing at open house
Gov. Mark Dayton writes a note excusing Alice Szeliga from school on January 3, 2011. Instead of going to class, the 15-year-old attended Dayton's inauguration ceremony and an open house at the Minnesota State Capitol in St. Paul.
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J.D. Steele
J.D. Steele leads the MacPhail Community Youth Choir through a rehearsal as guests make their way to their seats. The youth choir performed at the inauguration ceremony for Governor Mark Dayton at the Landmark Center in St. Paul, Minn., on January 3, 2011.
MPR Photo/Nikki Tundel
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Up the back stairs
High school students race up the back stairs of the Landmark Center in St. Paul, Minn., in hopes of finding a good place from which to view the inauguration of Mark Dayton.
MPR Photo/Nikki Tundel