AM.MN: Got secrets? Paper polls pols on drugs, alcohol, depression, anxiety

Have you “ever received therapy or treatment of any kind for use of alcohol or prescription or non-prescription drugs, or for depression or anxiety“? That’s the question the Star Tribune asked in a survey sent to candidates for governor. A “modern-day Inquisition” perhaps, but one carefully tailored to Mark Dayton’s demons — leaving an inquisition-free route to the governor’s mansion for untreated glue-sniffers who hear voices.

ST. PAUL: Public-employees union knows what to cut: political appointees’ jobs. [Workday Minnesota]

STATE CAPITOL: Budget talks. Today is the day Gov. Pawlenty agreed to meet with DFL leaders on the state budget. [Associated Press]

STATEWIDE: Don’t run, Norm. Former Minnesota GOP Party Chair Ron Eibensteiner says Norm Coleman should butt out of the race to replace Pawlenty. [Star Tribune]

ST. CLOUD: It’s between him and his god. The man who posted anti-Muslim cartoons outside a mosque and a Somali-owned store won’t face charges. [St. Cloud Times]

MINNEAPOLIS AND DELANO: More candidates say what they got. Gubernatorial hopefuls Paul Thissen and Tom Emmer raised $370,000 and $115,000, respectively, last year. [Politics in Minnesota]

MINNEAPOLIS: House speaker raised $254,000 in 2009. Margaret Anderson Kelliher still faces a hearing Tuesday on charges she violated campaign-finance laws. [Polinaut]