[This story originally appeared in the June 12, 2009 PIM Weekly Report.] The school children hadn’t even clambered on to the buses for the final time in their 2008-09 calendar year this week when superintendents and other district and building administrators across Minnesota started trying to get their heads and calculators around what is shaping up [...]

[This story originally appeared in the June 12, 2009 PIM Weekly Report.] The school children hadn’t even clambered on to the buses for the final time in their 2008-09 calendar year this week when superintendents and other district and building administrators across Minnesota started trying to get their heads and calculators around what is shaping up [...]

The PIM interview: Kelliher on Pawlenty’s DIY budget

Following the close of a legislative session that saw Gov. Tim Pawlenty turn his back on the Legislature and resolve to balance the state budget on a do-it-youself basis, legislative Democrats have been taking the measure of the governor’s unprecedented action. House Speaker Margaret Anderson Kelliher (DFL-Minneapolis), in particular, has been meeting and talking regularly [...]