2006

February

• State budget surplus pegged at $88 million

• Plan would fix pension fund

• Pawlenty seeks more H1-B visas

• Revenue forecast to help plot fiscal course

• Funeral protest causes furor among legislators

• Legislature faces conflict

• Lawmakers have focused to-do list

• Playing Nice

• Funeral protest causes furor among legislators

• Vet’s survivor benefits cause new debate

• Pawlenty: Enhance state’s mental health treatment

• Car booster seats urged for up to age 9

• Bipartisan task force recommends ways to improve legislative operations

• Fewer seniors buying prescription drugs in Canada

• Senate hopeful rips Iraq war

• State feels bumps in the budget for roads

• Pawlenty plan would cut drug costs for uninsured

• Pawlenty envisions broadband access statewide

• Substance-abuse treatment claims don’t add up, auditor finds

• Kerry: Democrats relevant on war

• Leaders hope to block shutdowns

• Lawmaker proposes legal Web bets

• Sex offenders may find public glare harder to avoid

• Mass transit study sought

• Twins stadium bill has might

• Minnesota special elections attract $350,000

• DFL CHAIR CALLS FOR MISLEADING AD TO BE TAKEN OFF THE AIR

• $5M pledged for homeless

• Officials request waiver for Medicare plan

• Ridership of light rail, buses rose 7% in 2005

• Senate DFL floats idea of tax add-on

• State child care costs among nation’s highest

• Costs of new sex crime laws add up

• Chastened legislators seek change

• Legislators gather to mend fences

• Ciresi won’t run for Senate

• GOP to urge property tax relief

• Democrats offer plan to clean up waterways

• STATEMENT OF DFL CHAIR BRIAN MELENDEZ REGARDING GOP AGENDA

• Sviggum Is Wrong

• MINNESOTA DFL LAUNCHES DFLers.org

• Tribes to adopt offender law

• GOP faces lawsuit if it doesn’t pay legal fees

• Funding setbacks threaten North Shore harbor project

• Twins can quit Dome after ‘06

• Third Democrat announces plans to challenge Kiffmeyer

• Politics links Pawlenty, ballpark backers

• Rochester housing market settling down

• School fees up 45% in three years

• DFL hopes to silence Pawlenty radio show

• Wetterling announces bid for House seat

• Bush: ‘We have got to lead’

• Bush Expands on Competitiveness Plan