by Betsy Sundquist
Published: February 24, 2010
Tags: Arne Carlson, Carol Molnau, David Schultz, Jesse Ventura, Matt Dean, Phil Krinkie, Phyllis Kahn, Rhonda Sivarajah, Rudy Perpich, Steve Sviggum, Tim Pawlenty, Tom Emmer
As Minnesota attempts to dig itself out of a $1.2 billion deficit, the 15-term DFL representative from Minneapolis came up with a plan that some say would save the state an estimated $500,000 each biennium. The idea: Abolish the position of lieutenant governor.
by Betsy Sundquist
Published: January 13, 2010
Tags: 2010 legislative session, Arne Carlson, budget, deficit, Larry Pogemiller, Margaret Anderson Kelliher, Marty Seifert, Mary LaHammer, Tim Pawlenty, Tom Emmer
Whatever the 2010 Minnesota Legislature does to confront the state's massive budget deficit will have to be a long-term solution rather than a short-term fix, or legislators will find themselves merely "kicking the can down the road," legislative leaders declared this week.
House Research offers two memos to lawmakers about previous forays into the courts
by Sarah Janecek
Published: October 28, 2009
Tags: 2010 Governor's Race, Arne Carlson, Dave Durenberger, Eliot Seide, Jesse Ventura, Jon Grunseth, Mark Dayton, Roger Moe, Rudy Boschwitz, Rudy Perpich, Skip Humphrey, Tim Pawlenty
One of the most intriguing aspects of AFSCME's endorsement of DFLer Mark Dayton for governor is how it went down.
Past governors and legislative leaders fault both politics and demographics.
A bipartisan assemblage of Minnesota’s political hall of fame is supporting a bill that would create an independent commission to handle the next round of redistricting.
Two former governors, a former U.S. vice president and a former state Senate majority leader endorsed redistricting reform legislation in a letter sent today to state Sen. Ann Rest, [...]
[Editor's note: This feature originally appeared in the February 13, 2009
edition of the PIM Weekly Report.]
On Thursday PIM caught up with former Minnesota GOP Gov. Arne Carlson at his winter place in Florida to ask his thoughts on the current budgetary crisis back home.
Carlson, who since leaving office in 1999 has been a vocal [...]
[Editor's note: This feature originally appeared in the February 13, 2009
edition of the PIM Weekly Report.]
On Thursday PIM caught up with former Minnesota GOP Gov. Arne Carlson at his winter place in Florida to ask his thoughts on the current budgetary crisis back home.
Carlson, who since leaving office in 1999 has been a vocal [...]
In the movie, "The Devil Wears Prada," Meryl Streep plays top fashion magazine editor Miranda Priestly (who is really former cold perfectionist Vogue editor Anna Wintour). There’s a great scene where she appears with her personal assistant (Anne Hathaway as Andy Sachs) as the two tour Paris in a chauffeured car with U2’s "City [...]
