by Staff
Published: June 29, 2009
Tags: Capitol Notepad
The big story this week is the imminent unallotment action from GOP Gov. Tim Pawlenty, and the consequences for local governments. MPR notes White Bear Lake’s adjustments; the Strib looks at Washington County; ABC Newspapers on Anoka, Andover, East Bethel and Ham Lake; Don Davis has the Willmar rundown; the Forest Lake Times has regional [...]
by Staff
Published: May 27, 2009
Tags: Capitol Notepad
Today seems another low-key one for Minnesota politics. The MinnPost coverage of Minneapolis Mayor RT Rybak’s commercially-oriented visit to China, from Adam Minter, is probably the most interesting item of the day. In particular, the Mayor’s Chinese business card is nifty. (Plus, a MinnPost commenter notes the Mayor’s self-deprecatingly mismatched socks in the lead photo.) Dan [...]
by Staff
Published: May 26, 2009
Tags: Capitol Notepad
Now that we’re in the legislative off-season, we’ll try using the Notepad as our collection bin for news bites of the day. Let us know if you find this style helpful! One upcoming item: Rep. Dean Urdahl(R-Grove City) is going to deliver to Washington D.C. the resolution he authored asking Congress to repeal the 1863 law [...]
by Staff
Published: May 19, 2009
Tags: Capitol Notepad
1:42 a.m. update. Way to go, Dan Feidt of PIM. Tweeted his beak off, he did, the last few days, and we’ve gotten serious kudos on the Tweetdeck (plus we ran out of Tweets…try running that phrase by anyone a year ago…."he ran out of Tweets!"). Session? What all happened, today? We’ll play that out in the weeks to come. [...]
by Staff
Published: May 17, 2009
Tags: Capitol Notepad
1 a.m. update: Today was a rough day in the House, but the barrage of consensus bills that coasted through the evening’s late session should remind everyone that the Legislature still gets a lot of things hashed out properly. The pensions omnibus bill has been getting modified in the Rules committee. Minority Leader Rep. Marty [...]
by Staff
Published: May 17, 2009
Tags: Capitol Notepad
1 a.m. update: Today was a rough day in the House, but the barrage of consensus bills that coasted through the evening’s late session should remind everyone that the Legislature still gets a lot of things hashed out properly. The pensions omnibus bill has been getting modified in the Rules committee. Minority Leader Rep. Marty [...]
by Staff
Published: May 16, 2009
Tags: Capitol Notepad
1:10 a.m. update: Well, the Capitol wireless Internet has excellent performance right now. Tonight’s meeting didn’t reach agreement on major items, and a new offer from the governor said: "House DFL K-12 shift level ($1.775 billion) / LGA, related items, $14 million in tax compliance and other agreed upon items / Mutually agreed upon higher [...]
by Staff
Published: May 14, 2009
Tags: Capitol Notepad
11:55 p.m. update: After GOP Gov. Tim Pawlenty announced the unallotment strategy, late in the evening he announced a line-item veto of the entire General Assistance Medical Care grant for FY ‘11 (which could be a kind of opening gambit for a late deal). The Senate adjourned around 7:30 p.m. and will reconvene around noon [...]
by Staff
Published: May 13, 2009
Tags: Capitol Notepad
5 p.m. update: It’s going to go quite late tonight, most likely, and tptMN will be carrying coverage live after 6 p.m. Transportation policy omnibus is not meeting tonight, but should reconvene at 9 a.m. in Capitol room 318. All the latest conference reports should be up right here. We heard that the “motor voter” [...]
by Staff
Published: May 12, 2009
Tags: Capitol Notepad
5 p.m. update: We’ll call tonight’s gathering the session’s first true press encampment outside the governor’s office. The latest good news is that agriculture and veterans omnibus just wrapped up, and should be fine with GOP Gov. Tim Pawlenty. E-12 education omnibus is chugging away and Rep. Mindy Greiling is reportedly pushing to get things [...]
