Gov. Tim Pawlenty unveiled his $685 million bonding plan for the state Friday, signaling that he’d veto a richer bill from the state Legislature rather than trim it via line-item vetoes. He showed special disdain projects that he said had only local significance and criticized increased pay for teachers.
Ominous news about job losses and financial woes at Minnesota hospitals over the last week coincide with Gov. Pawlenty’s line-item veto of $381 million in General Assistance Medical Care (GAMC) grants and his vow to make more cuts by unallotment. But as bad as the doomsday scenarios are, they shouldn’t include St. Paul’s Regions Hospital closing — a prospect that a DFL press release warned of over the weekend.
On Monday, Gov. Tim Pawlenty gave the state Legislature’s bonding bill a haircut almost as extreme as the one Javier Bardem wears in No Country for Old Men. In fact, much of the recent drama…
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