The No Deal era

As gut-check time descends upon the parties to Minnesota’s looming government shutdown, perceptions around the Capitol as to who’s winning and who’s on the verge of blinking differ radically — and, unsurprisingly, mainly along partisan lines. If there’s one point on which nearly all observers agree, it’s that the polarization between governor and Legislature that characterized the Tim Pawlenty era is only deepening with time.

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