MINNEAPOLIS — For a brief moment in time, there was peace in the valley at the Minnesota statehouse.
Nearly 200 goats and sheep fanned out and munched on grasses on a sunny hillside across the street from the Capitol building downtown St. Paul, a strikingly pastoral scene in a place better known for political gridlock.
Government workers passing by last week stopped in their tracks and pulled out their phones to take video. Politicians emerged from their offices to snap selfies. Cars slowed to a snail's pace and passengers rolled down windows to ask the obvious question: "Are those ... goats?"
