Morning Report 5/31/2012

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BEST OF THE BLOGS

• Mining Truth: About those jobs, jobs, jobs (Part 2), LeftMN
• Minnesota faith leaders discuss voter ID laws at D.C. conference, Hot Dish Politics
• Lynch to lobby for American Dental Hygienists’ Association, Political Notebook
• Open Letter To Helga Braid Nation, Shot in the Dark
• No opportunity without unity, True North
  
• Cravaack tries to rekindle outsider status in re-election bid, Hot Dish Politics
• Minnesota Supreme Court derails tobacco lawsuit, News Cut
• What precisely is new Faribault school board candidate saying about diversity and funding?, Bluestem Prairie
  
• Better know a Senate District: 51, LeftMN
• Cravaack tries to rekindle outsider status in re-election bid, Hot Dish Politics
  
• Rep. Kurt Bills is a Ron Paul Republican, Minnesota Conservatives
  

 

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BUSINESS / ECONOMY

• Why the Minneapolis Fed’s Kocherlakota wants interest rates to rise, MinnPost 5/30/12 9:25 a.m.
  

 

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CAMPAIGNS

• Pro-Hegseth super PAC to no longer focus on Minnesota, MinnPost 5/30/12 3:12 p.m.
• Kurt Bills files to run for U.S. Senate, says he’d drastically cut foreign aid, MinnPost 5/31/12 12:06 p.m.
• Races taking shape as candidates file, West Central Tribune 5/31/12 12:00 a.m.
  

 

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CONGRESS – HOUSE

• Cravaack, top target for Dems, files for 2nd term, AP
  

 

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CONGRESS – SENATE

• At Franken’s hearing, patient tells grim debt collection story, MPR
• Senior Accretive VP apologizes, defends employees, Star Tribune 5/30/12 8:44 p.m.
• Franken wants laptops with medical info encrypted, AP
  
• Klobuchar optimistic about passage of farm bill, West Central Tribune 5/31/12 12:00 a.m.
  

 

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DAYTON

• Minnesota trade delegation ready to say, ‘Ni Hao, Beijing’, MinnPost 5/30/12 2:42 p.m.
  

 

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EDUCATION

• Mike Ciresi on education equity: ‘We’re in it for the long term’, MinnPost 5/30/12 10:00 a.m.
• Changes on the cards in Willmar on the heels of state achievement report, West Central Tribune 5/31/12 12:00 a.m.
  

 

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ELECTIONS

• Coalition challenges voter ID amendment, AP
• Groups sue over Minn. voter ID amendment, MPR
  

 

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ENVIRONMENT

• Rising St. Croix, Mississippi rivers create headaches, Pioneer Press 5/30/12 8:52 p.m.
  

 

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GOVERNMENT – LOCAL

• Minnesota’s local governments may need to learn to ‘share’, MinnPost 5/30/12 9:51 a.m.
• City may turn library levy to county, Mankato Free Press
  

 

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JUDICIAL

• Three judges appointed in Hennepin County, MinnPost 5/30/12 2:36 p.m.
• Minnesota high court ends ‘light’ cigarette case, AP
  

 

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LEGISLATURE

• Sparks, Poppe still unopposed, Albert Lea Tribune 5/30/12 3:12 p.m.
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MEDIA

• Pioneer Press seeks buyouts in wake of new union contract, MinnPost 5/30/12 4:05 p.m.
  

 

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OPINION – EDITORIAL

• Editorial: In Dakota County, linking teacher pay to performance, Pioneer Press 5/30/12 6:48 p.m.
• Editorial: Patients lose when care isn’t top goal, Star Tribune 5/31/12 5:41 a.m.
  

 

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PUBLIC HEALTH / SAFETY

• Sex trafficking: migration to Internet brings new victims, customers, MPR
• Heart of the Beast to host services for Mpls. church destroyed by fire, Star Tribune 5/30/12 12:28 p.m.
• More MN children living in poverty, MPR
  

 

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SAINT PAUL / MINNEAPOLIS

• Hiawatha Avenue to reopen, Finance and Commerce 5/30/12 5:58 p.m.
  

 

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STADIUMS

• Huddles begin for stadium-area land deals, Finance and Commerce 5/31/12 7:31 a.m.
• Star Tribune hires broker for stadium land, MPR
  

 

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TECHNOLOGY

• Management company pulls out of Monticello’s fiber network, MPR
  

 

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TRANSPORTATION

• Contractors say 35W case means more risk, higher costs, Finance and Commerce 5/30/12 4:19 p.m.
• BNSF to spend $100M on rail infrastructure, Finance and Commerce 5/30/12 1:03 p.m.