am.mn logoBallot referendum measures in Minneapolis and St. Paul will be decided by voters next week, but the cities’ daily newspaper editorial boards say today how those votes should go. The Star Tribune says to vote yes on eliminating the city’s tax board, and the Pioneer Press says to vote no on instant-runoff voting. So remember: Vote yes and no.

Elsewhere in Minnesota news this morning …


MINNEAPOLIS: A Mill City effort to oust Michele Bachmann. City residents (and noted DFLers) Al Franken, Margaret Anderson Kelliher and R.T. Rybak will host a fundraiser for state Sen. Tarryl Clark’s Sixth District congressional campaign. [Polinaut]

SAUK RAPIDS: GOP guv-candidates try “speed-dating.” OK, now that’s connecting with voters. Get a room big tent!  [St. Cloud Times]

ST. PAUL: The Petters affair. Not his alleged Ponzi scheme, but the revelation at Tom Petters’ trial about his “intimate” relationship with employee-turned-prosecution-witness Deanna Coleman [WCCO-TV; Minneapolis-St. Paul Business Journal]

MOOSE LAKE: Gov. Pawlenty to punish purchasers of TVs for sex offenders. Lock them up and throw away the key, with no big TV? Works for sex offenders. [Associated Press]

NEW ULM: Taunters punished. Parents protested suspensions and other penalties after an entire spectator section was ejected from a high school football game, part of a rash of bad behavior at local athletic events. [New Ulm Journal]

CARVER COUNTY: Talkin’ crap. On review, Pawlenty’s Pollution Control Agency decides to put the freedom to speak about septic systems first. [Star Tribune]