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MPR News Reflections and observations on the news

Tag: Politics

Live-blogging Midday: The governor’s budget

Bob CollinsBob Collins March 18, 2009, 10:58 AM Mar 18, 2009
6

Now that the governor has proposed a revised budget, now what?

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Shining a light on Capitol access

Bob CollinsBob Collins March 16, 2009, 1:02 PM Mar 16, 2009
3

Journalists still argue that some of them should have more access at the Capitol than others.

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An outdoors fight brews

Bob CollinsBob Collins March 16, 2009, 12:06 PM Mar 16, 2009
4

Should the Legislature alter the Lessard Outdoors Heritage Council’s recommendations for spending sales tax money?

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Pawlenty on CNBC

Bob CollinsBob Collins March 16, 2009, 9:29 AM Mar 16, 2009
3

Keeping track of the locals on the national stage.

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The ‘earmarks factory’

Bob CollinsBob Collins March 15, 2009, 10:44 AM Mar 15, 2009
2

A rising controversy in Washington over a lobbying firm which specializes in securing earmarks for its clients is ensnaring every member of the Minnesota congressional delegation.

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Datagate redux

Bob CollinsBob Collins March 14, 2009, 9:14 PM Mar 14, 2009
13

More questions than answers in the release of private data from a Norm Coleman fundraising site.

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The new DFL

Bob CollinsBob Collins March 13, 2009, 10:51 AM Mar 13, 2009
7

DFLers proposing cuts to education and Republicans proposing spending more on it is a paradigm shift that’s going to take Minnesotans more than one legislative session to grasp.

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The Obama Industrial Average?

Bob CollinsBob Collins March 12, 2009, 4:48 PM Mar 12, 2009
3

Can you measure the performance of a president based on the stock market?

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Datagate

Bob CollinsBob Collins March 12, 2009, 1:51 PM Mar 12, 2009
28

Day 2 of the Coleman unsecured data controversy.

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Seeing the future

Bob CollinsBob Collins March 12, 2009, 1:07 PM Mar 12, 2009

No matter how it’s done, however lawmakers plug the budget deficit is going to come back to haunt them at election time.

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What state mandates should be eliminated?

Bob CollinsBob Collins March 11, 2009, 6:40 PM Mar 11, 2009
2

Have you ever attended a Truth in Taxation hearing in Minnesota? Has it done any good?

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Vets: Who pays for their treatment?

Bob CollinsBob Collins March 11, 2009, 3:21 PM Mar 11, 2009
6

Veterans who are injured in battle would be required to pay for treatment of their injuries with private insurance under a plan being considered by the Obama administration.

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In the public interest?

Bob CollinsBob Collins March 11, 2009, 10:52 AM Mar 11, 2009
28

What is to be gained by publishing the private financial data of people who did nothing wrong?

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Rediscovering Franken-Coleman

Bob CollinsBob Collins March 10, 2009, 4:13 PM Mar 10, 2009
6

The heavyweight political blogs are taking note of the Coleman-Franken race again.

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The big chill at the Capitol

Bob CollinsBob Collins March 10, 2009, 7:19 AM Mar 10, 2009
23

Of all the problems currently facing the people of the state of Minnesota, being too informed about what the pols are doing at the Capitol isn’t one of them.

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