AM.MN: Reason 4,573 to love librarians

The director of the Minnesota Legislative Reference Library refused to accommodate police and union attorneys who tried to pressure her to yank the 2008 Metro Gang Strike Force report from its website. “It was pretty amazing,” said Robbie LaFleur. “I have been here 20 years, and no one really has questioned these publicly available reports before.”

Elsewhere in Minnesota news this morning…

ST. PAUL: Twenty-four years after arriving — then a 24-year-old Chilean unable to speak English — Valeria Silva is named schools superintendent, after stints as the city’s director of English Language Learner programs and chief academic officer. [Pioneer Press]

BLOOMINGTON: Deport me: Clad in Gitmo get-ups, that’s what Robert Erickson — who crashed a recent anti-immigration rally — told ICE officials when his group tried to turn themselves in as illegal European immigrants. [Bluestem Prairie; TC IndyMedia]

ST. PAUL: This morning’s joint press conference by Reps. Tim Walz and Erik Paulsen over the ban on building new nuclear facilities sparks a question: Will either legislator back a nuke plant in their district? [Polinaut; AP]

STATEWIDE: More than a third of state school districts must borrow to pay their bills, thanks to Gov. Pawlenty’s delay in paying $1.2 billion in schools payments, but some schools are especially hard hit — Bemidji and Spring Lake Park borrowed nearly $9 million and $12 million respectively. [MPR]

ST. FRANCIS: For the third time, the City Council has censured CM LeRoy Schaffer, this time for a “verbal attack” on a colleague. Now he’s prohibited from communicating with all staff except the city administrator. [Pioneer Press]