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GOP education plan has educators seething

By James Sanna | 03.31.11 | 4:14 pm

On Thursday afternoon, the state Senate passed a highly contentious education budget bill that has many in the Minneapolis schools seething. They see the bill, and its sibling passed by the state House of Representatives on Monday, as an attempt to put their districts on a “starvation diet.” And, as poor Minnesotans move to the northern and southern suburbs in increasing numbers, some wonder if the Republican proposal is setting schools in many of their members’ districts up for failure.

Introducing PoliTweeps

By Paul Schmelzer | 04.01.10 | 2:16 pm

Our inaugural edition of PoliTweeps, an ongoing look at what political figures are saying in and about Minnesota on Twitter, runs the gamut from the meta to the global: State…

GOP lawmaker: The word ‘veto’ is ‘locked up in a safe,’ only Pawlenty can say it

By Chris Steller | 05.13.09 | 9:26 am

pawlentyvpThe word “veto” used to roll gleefully off Republican tongues, particularly “Governor Veto” Tim Pawlenty’s. Now, according to Republican state Rep. Pat Garofalo, the word is verboten.