The Morning Report 7/1/08 - Daily Minnesota Political Stories
Top Story: Legislative auditor investigates attorney general office's Hatch-negotiated deal.
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Best of the Blogs and Think Tank Thoughts:
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Z-File: Irresistible stories beyond the purview of PIM
Agriculture:
Best of the Blogs and Think Tank Thoughts:
- Did Coleman pay market value for living arrangements in DC?, MN Campaign Report
- Phoning it in, Ladies Logic
- Pawlenty underwhelms on 'This Week,' Truth vs. The Machine
- Pawlenty promotes McCain to evangelicals, The Political Animal
- Minnesota: Still a good place to get rich, Across The Great Divide
- Norm's sweetheart apartment deal a violation of Senate ethics?, MN Blue
- Assisted living: DFL alleges that Coleman's apartment deal violates gift ban, Minnesota Independent
- DFL: Coleman's $600 rent = sweetheart deal; Coleman: $600 rent = cramped space, The Political Animal
- Keeping tabs on job creation results, Minnesota Brown
- VP or not VP: Pawlenty 'hit a homerun' at Connecticut GOP shindig, Minnesota Independent
- Will Pawlenty ever make another student appointment to the MnSCU board?, Blue man in a Red district
- From Keith Ellison to Barack Obama, Power Line Blog
- Peppin's No. 1 -- again, The Political Animal
- Interlachen plans future in post-Open glow, Star Tribune
- Best Buy closes $2.1 billion deal to buy cellphone chain, Pioneer Press
- Star Tribune withholds some pay to lenders, Star Tribune
- St. Paul's Penfield condos canceled, Star Tribune
- Builders: Regulations keep suburban home prices unreasonably high, Pioneer Press
- Sugar beet plant will close Sept. 1, AP. CA plant's owner is the Southern MN Beet Sugar Cooperative.
- Food inflation may dodge Midwest flood bullet, AP
- DFL steps up to line but doesn't cross it, Polinaut - MPR
- DFL keeps pressure on Coleman over rental arrangement, MPR
- DFL head homes in on Coleman's D.C. housing arrangement, MinnPost
- Norm Coleman on ad with wife, status in DC, WCCO
- Coleman's latest ad offers same tone, same theme, same shirt, MinnPost
- Minnesota Senate race will shatter spending records, KARE 11
- Coleman acknowledges 'hard times' in new ad, The Crypt - Politico
Crime/Police:
Education:
- Audit: Praise for charter schools' finances but pause on academics, Star Tribune
- Study: Charter schools a mixed bag, AP
- UMD's take on labor law may cut pay for student journalists, Duluth News Tribune
- Daily survey: U spending doesn't match student priorities, Minnesota Daily
Government:
- AG office queried about diverted funds, Star Tribune
- Questions raised about Hatch-negotiated deal, MPR
- Two new issues surface involving attorney general's office, MinnPost
- First day to file for political office, MPR
Judicial:
- U.S. Dist. Judge Davis makes history as new chief of MN federal bench, MPR
- A day in the life of a Minnesota public defender, News Cut - MPR
- Kenneth Macke, who led Target, dies at 69, New York Times
- 'Born merchant' Kenneth A. Macke helped build Target, Star Tribune
- Craig Westover: Government's legitimacy is grounded in restraint, Pioneer Press
- Dane Smith: Government as an agent of progress, Pioneer Press
- Brian Davis: Minnesotans need real solutions to gas prices, Worthington Daily Globe
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Editorial: The experiment continues -- as it should, Pioneer Press. MN's charter schools.
- Editorial: Disaster aid welcome, but it only goes so far, Rochester Post-Bulletin
- Arizona state legislator arrested; appears in court, KNXV (Phoenix). The Democrat had just received a Freshman Legislator of the Year award from the AZ Chamber of Commerce.
- Pawlenty takes over national education organization, MPR
- Pawlenty on McCain and the evangelical vote, Star Tribune - The Big Question
- Lobbying loophole funds conventions, Politico. 'MN Gov. Tim Pawlenty is trading promises of access to party bigwigs and elected officials for donations to the convention host committee.'
- Romney tops McCain veep list, Politico. 'Campaign insiders say McCain plans to name his running mate very shortly after Barack Obama does.'
- New website pools best research on rural highway safety, MPR
- Attorney General's office won’t appeal ruling on violent video game sales, Finance and Commerce
- U of M to house new road safety center, MSP Business Journal
Technology:
- Pawlenty appoints 20 members to broadband task force, Finance and Commerce
Z-File: Irresistible stories beyond the purview of PIM
- Bison will soon roam in Minnesota again, MPR
- Ebay fined over selling counterfeits, Wall Street Journal. $63.2M to be paid to LVMH.
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