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DFL primaries in the offing in northern Minnesota House races

DFLers vying in state House races in northeastern Minnesota will have primaries in three districts.

THEBRIEFINGROOM

DeJournett wants apology for being included on ‘chaos’ flyer at GOP convention

**UPDATED** The president of VOICES of Conservative Women wants an apology from the individuals behind a flyer suggesting that she supports Ron Paul's presidential campaign.

DFLer Kath won’t seek re-election

"My decision to not seek re-election is so I can spend more time doing the greatest job I know, being a dad," Kath wrote in an e-mail announcing his decision.

GOP activist Janet Beihoffer wins RNC Committeewoman race

Beihoffer, an longtime photo I.D. advocate and former chair of the 2nd Congressional District Republicans, easily beat Anderson in a 215-124 vote cast by the state GOP's central committee. The election was one of the last items on the party's busy agenda for the weekend, which included endorsing a U.S. Senate candidate and visit from presidential candidate and Congressman Ron Paul.

Republicans back Bills in U.S. Senate contest

Freshman state Rep. Kurt Bills won the GOP endorsement for U.S. Senate on Friday, eclipsing the 60 percent threshold required for party backing on the second ballot.



Delayed mineral lease sale will get Exec Council hearing

The state Executive Committee on Thursday will meet to revisit the controversial sale of 77 leases for mining in northern Minnesota.

Vikings stadium financing hinges on Supreme Court approval

If appropriation bonds are deemed unconstitutional, the state’s means of raising $348 million disappears.

Q&A: Retiring Robling says polarization at the Capitol finally wore her down

Capitol Report spoke with Robling last Wednesday about her frustrations, accomplishments and what she plans to do next.

Business lobby gives mixed marks to GOP majorities

The change in Minnesota politics wrought by the 2010 election created equal measures of optimism and concern among the business groups that lobby state lawmakers.

Tax bill veto kills other business-friendly measures

In vetoing the Republican-controlled Legislature’s property tax bill, Gov. Mark Dayton ended up rejecting many other measures supported by the economic development community.

David Strom: Session fallout: Surprise, we don’t like it!

Those of us outside government tend to think of everywhere else as the “real world,” but during a legislative session, no place is as real as the Capitol for those involved in lawmaking.

Ezra Klein: American decline a mirage in a world that’s rising

If the U.S. is growing at 3.5 percent a year while China is growing at 8.5 percent a year, enabling China’s economy to surpass the U.S. in a decade or so, does that mean the U.S. is in decline?

Walker says he’ll try to be consensus-builder

Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker said Thursday he’s not afraid to lose the historic recall election he faces in less than three weeks, but if he wins he intends to govern in a more inclusive, consensus-building way.

Nebraska rancher’s upset shapes GOP strategy

A little-known Nebraska rancher who bills herself as “sharp as barbed wire and tougher than a cedar fence post” will ride an upset win in the state’s Republican primary for U.S. Senate this week into a general election that could help flip control of the chamber this fall.

AARP registers ballot question fund, will fight Voter ID

The group plans to coordinate outreach and education efforts to its more than 400,000 households and 650,000 members statewide in an effort to defeat the amendment.


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CAPITOL LIFE

  • Jill Sletten advocates for LGA, other causes

    It’s hard for small cities to contend at the Capitol with heavyweights like Minneapolis and St. Paul, but they have a voice in Jill Sletten.

  • DNR to boaters: No more Mr. Nice Guy

    After years of issuing routine warnings to boaters who violate invasive aquatic species laws, the state Department of Natural Resources says it is getting tough.

  • Ethnicity in the shadow of the Capitol

    After a two-year planning effort, a five-block stretch in that neighborhood, from Galtier Street on the east to Mackubin Street on the west, has a new moniker: Little Mekong. The name derives from Southeast Asia’s famed Mekong River, with flowing water replaced by asphalt and a light rail line now under construction.

COMMENTARY

ELECTIONS

BUDGET / TAXES

EDUCATION

  • Dayton vetoes bill to repeal LIFO

    As promised, Gov. Mark Dayton has vetoed a key GOP education bill to repeal the state’s so-called “last in, first out” law, which protects teachers with the most seniority when school districts are hit with layoffs.

ENERGY / ENVIRONMENT

HEALTH CARE

  • DFLers, GOP pitch dueling health insurance plans

    The two bills enter a fray that has included tussling over executive authority between Republicans and the Dayton administration and a DFL-backed bill that gained the backing of three key House GOP chairmen.

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