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		<title>Minimum wage increase clears Senate, headed to conference committee</title>
		<link>http://politicsinminnesota.com/2013/05/minimum-wage-increase-clears-senate-headed-to-conference-committee/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 May 2013 23:30:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Demko</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[chris eaton]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gary Dahms]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Senate passed legislation by a 39-28 vote on Wednesday that will  increase the minimum wage to $7.75 an hour for large employers by 2015. All DFLers voted in favor of the measure, while all Republicans cast dissenting votes.

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		<title>Conference committees on key finance bills take shape</title>
		<link>http://politicsinminnesota.com/2013/04/conference-committees-on-key-finance-bills-take-shape/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Apr 2013 16:39:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Demko</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Mary Murphy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Melisa Franzen]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Michael Nelson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rena Moran]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Richard Cohen]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rick Hansen]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sandy Pappas]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Terri Bonoff]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Thomas Huntley]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tina Liebling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tom Saxhaug]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[With most major finance bills clearing the House and Senate floors, attention will now turn towards conference committees this week. Conferees on several bills have already been appointed by legislative leaders.

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		<title>Meet the freshmen: Senate GOP (part 2)</title>
		<link>http://politicsinminnesota.com/2012/11/meet-the-freshmen-senate-republicans-part-2/</link>
		<comments>http://politicsinminnesota.com/2012/11/meet-the-freshmen-senate-republicans-part-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Nov 2012 21:54:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Demko and Charley Shaw</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Capitol Report]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Top Story]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[2012 election]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bruce Anderson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[David Osmek]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Eric Pratt]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Karin Housley]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Meet the Freshmen]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Torrey Westrom]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[House vets join first-timers in Senate GOP fold as Capitol Report continues profiling all 65 of the newly elected members of the Minnesota Legislature.]]></description>
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		<title>Brandon Anderson&#8217;s novel idea raises money, legal questions</title>
		<link>http://politicsinminnesota.com/2012/07/brandon-andersons-novel-idea-raises-money-legal-questions/</link>
		<comments>http://politicsinminnesota.com/2012/07/brandon-andersons-novel-idea-raises-money-legal-questions/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jul 2012 15:44:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Mullen</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[2012 legislative races]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Brandon Anderson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[campaign finance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Eric Langness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gary Goldsmith]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Republican Senate candidate Brandon Anderson needed $800, and quick, in order to qualify for the public subsidy for legislative candidates. So he proposed that he and fellow GOP candidates swap donations to each other to help them all qualify -- a move that has attracted the attention of the Campaign Finance and Public Disclosure Board. ]]></description>
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		<title>So long, adios, auf wiedersehen</title>
		<link>http://politicsinminnesota.com/2012/05/so-long-adios-auf-wiedersehen/</link>
		<comments>http://politicsinminnesota.com/2012/05/so-long-adios-auf-wiedersehen/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2012 19:26:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charley Shaw</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Amy Koch]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bill Hilty]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bobby Joe Champion]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Frank Hornstein]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Geoff Michel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Greg Davids]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ian Marsh]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Kriesel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kate Knuth]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Keith Downey]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kurt Bills]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Larry Hosch]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Marion Greene]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mark Murdock]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mary Kiffmeyer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mary Liz Holberg]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mike LeMieur]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mindy Greiling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nora Slawik]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pat Mazorol]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[retirement speeches]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ron Shimanski]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Torrey Westrom]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[After adjourning in the wee hours of Thursday morning, the Minnesota House of Representatives plunged ahead with the bittersweet biennial ritual of retirement speeches from departing members. ]]></description>
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		<title>Dust begins to settle on redistricting matchups</title>
		<link>http://politicsinminnesota.com/2012/02/dust-begins-to-settle-on-redistricting-matchups/</link>
		<comments>http://politicsinminnesota.com/2012/02/dust-begins-to-settle-on-redistricting-matchups/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Feb 2012 22:13:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Briana Bierschbach</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[The Briefing Room]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Amy Koch]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Carol McFarlane]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Glenn Gruenhagen]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Katie Sieben]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Matt Dean]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Michele Bachmann]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Michelle Benson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mike Jungbauer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Paul Gazelka]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Ray Vandeveer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[redistricting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Steve Smith]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ted Lillie]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tony Cornish]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Torrey Westrom]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[At least three prospective Republican candidates for the Minnesota Senate crowded a gathering of activists in the newly drawn Senate District 39 over the weekend. ]]></description>
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		<title>Redistricting fallout: McFarlane running for House, prominent GOPers look at lege</title>
		<link>http://politicsinminnesota.com/2012/02/redistricting-fallout-mcfarlane-running-for-house-prominent-gopers-look-at-lege/</link>
		<comments>http://politicsinminnesota.com/2012/02/redistricting-fallout-mcfarlane-running-for-house-prominent-gopers-look-at-lege/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Feb 2012 20:50:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Briana Bierschbach and Charley Shaw</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Al DeKruif]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Amy Koch]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Carol McFarlane]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Connie Doepke]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[David FitzSimmons]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gen Olson]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[redistricting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Scott Dutcher]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fallout has been almost constant since release of the state's redistricting maps last week, and over the weekend a few more incumbent-on-incumbent match-ups became clear, some House members  switched to run in open Senate seats and new candidates emerged to take their place.]]></description>
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		<title>Renewable energy program generates rate controversy</title>
		<link>http://politicsinminnesota.com/2011/12/renewable-energy-program-generates-rate-controversy/</link>
		<comments>http://politicsinminnesota.com/2011/12/renewable-energy-program-generates-rate-controversy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Dec 2011 21:14:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charley Shaw</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Bill Grant]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Joel Johnson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mark Dayton]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mike Rothman]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[net metering]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Paul Torkelson]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Gov. Mark Dayton’s administration and a host of rural economic development interests are hoping to boost the amount of renewable energy produced by farmers, homeowners and assorted small businesses. But that goal is running into a controversy over the rate at which those producers are paid for the power they generate, and just how much power they can sell to utilities.]]></description>
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		<title>Rising GOP tide lifted some lobbyists’ boats</title>
		<link>http://politicsinminnesota.com/2011/06/rising-gop-tide-lifted-some-lobbyists%e2%80%99-boats/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jun 2011 20:47:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charley Shaw</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Brian McDaniel]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Torrey Westrom]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Members of the Capitol lobbying corps could have been excused for thinking they were in the wrong building at the start of the 2011 legislative session. A new administration and 60 new legislators took office in St. Paul, and a new complement of Republican leaders and chairs took the place of DFLers in both legislative chambers. The Capitol building itself was just about the only thing that resembled the state of affairs from the prior year.]]></description>
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		<title>HMO competitive bidding bill dropped from committee agenda</title>
		<link>http://politicsinminnesota.com/2011/03/hmo-competitive-bidding-bill-for-dropped-from-committee-agenda/</link>
		<comments>http://politicsinminnesota.com/2011/03/hmo-competitive-bidding-bill-for-dropped-from-committee-agenda/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Mar 2011 20:35:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Demko</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Alice Hausman]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Torrey Westrom]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The agenda for Tuesday's gathering of the House Civil Law Committee initially included a bill mandating that competitive bidding be utilized in awarding contracts for the state's managed care programs. It also would require that the state regularly audit such programs and that they utilize Generally Accepted Accounting Principals in maintaining their books.]]></description>
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