Morning Report 7/6/11

• Fox News Twitter hacked, APM’s Future Tense
• Now earning $100,000 party salary, Sutton exploits shutdown in MNGOP fundraising email, Bluestem Prairie
• Minnesota lawmakers not accepting their salary: The full list, The Blotter
• Pawlenty hires Huckabee’s daughter, Hot Dish
• Sutton free no more; state GOP boss to take salary, Hot Dish
• The Carlson-Mondale Solution?, Let Freedom Ring
• Negotiations documents prove Dayton was the first to throw education funding under the bus, Minnesota Democrats Exposed
• Shutdown: The lunch-hour effect, News Cut
• Ventura to Dayton: ‘I don’t envy your situation’, Capitol View
• GOP, DFL use shutdown to solicit support, Capitol View

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BUSINESS / ECONOMY

• Life Time Fitness, Allina create partnership, Finance and Commerce
• Feds looking for firms to restore Bureau of Mines in Minneapolis, Finance and Commerce
• Foreclosure rate slows, but still at record high, MPR
• Dayton seeks tornado aid from SBA, AP

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CRIME / POLICE

• 3 fires set at former Dayton home in south Minneapolis, Star Tribune
• Vandals trash closed state parks, Star Tribune

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DAYTON

• Billboard Blames Dayton for Minnesota Govt.Shutdown, FOX 9

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EDUCATION

• Delayed payments balances books, but burdens schools, MPR

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ELECTIONS

• GOP 2012 Hopefuls Tim Pawlenty and Rick Santorum Focus on Iowa, Sunshine News

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GOVERNMENT – LOCAL

• St. Joseph council to set budget goals, St. Cloud Times
• Shutdown won’t affect county fair, which begins today, Winona Daily News

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LEGISLATURE

• Walter Mondale, Arne Carlson to float Minnesota plan, Politico
• Shutdown Forces St. Paul Concert Cancellation, KSTP
• Mondale, Carlson put together commission to offer ideas on ending Minn. government shutdown, Star Tribune
• Budget talks: Where new revenues might come from, MPR
• Minn. gov, lawmakers meet amid government shutdown, AP
• Minnesota shutdown doesn’t keep tourists away from closed parks, Duluth News Tribune
• Mondale steps into Minnesota’s budget crisis, Washington Times
• Minn. Residents Want Government Shutdown To End, NPR
• Social services beg for money in state shutdown, AP
• In day six, the reality of shutdown settles in, St. Cloud Times
• Shutdown delays remodeling project at Madison Elementary, St. Cloud Times
• Dayton, GOP Will Return to Budget Talks Wednesday, KSTP
• IP’s Tom Horner offers suggestions to break budget deadlock, MPR
• Pleas continue for exceptions to funding cutoff precipitated by government shutdown, Pioneer Press
• Time apart hasn’t lessened the rigid divide, Star Tribune

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OPINION – EDITORIAL

• Our View: Do schools have choice with state’s fiscal mess?, St. Cloud Times
• Editorial: Taxes are just part of shutdown story, Star Tribune

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SAINT PAUL / MINNEAPOLIS

• John B. Davis, who led Minneapolis schools through tumult, dies, Star Tribune

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STADIUMS

• Arden Hills schedules Vikings stadium open house, Shoreview Post
• Metrodome roof to re-inflate by month’s end, Finance and Commerce
• St. Paul balks at stadium tax, Star Tribune

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TRANSPORTATION

• Met Council to Discuss Light Rail and Bus Fare Hikes, KSTP