Outstate News 6/23/05
06/23/2005
Stumpf Letter to the Editor: Some things worth fighting for at special session (Crookston Daily Times)
http://www.crookstontimes.com/articles/2005/06/22/opinion/9opina.txt
Editorial: Let’s spell it out for you: C-O-M-P-R-O-M-I-S-E (Rochester Post Bulletin)
Legislative leadership is frozen, unable or unwilling to strike a state budget compromise. It is time for a good old-fashioned revolt by rank-and-file lawmakers who see value in compromise.
Rochester legislators could be the lead voice in such a coalition. Consider the center-pulling influence a Rochester led House coalition made up of Republican Reps. Fran Bradley and Randy Demmer, DFL Reps Tina Liebling and Andy Welti could have on a Legislature running headlong into a shutdown. Imagining such a group needn’t be a mirage, but it would have to be lead by Bradley, a co-chair of the Health and Human Services Conference Committee. Likewise, Rochester lawmakers could fashion a bipartisan (sort of) deal in the Senate if Republican Sen. Dave Senjem joined with Independent Sheila Kiscaden, who caucuses with the DFL*
http://news.postbulletin.com/newsmanager/templates/?a=224603&z=2&concurrent=
Editorial: Leadership deficit affecting Minnesota (Worthington Daily Globe)
http://www.dglobe.com/Main.asp?SectionID=2&SubSectionID=9&ArticleID=12476
Column: Legislators fiddle while education burns (Pioneer Press)
http://www.twincities.com/mld/twincities/news/columnists/11959758.htm
Pawlenty/Langseth: Shut down deadline looms (Wahpeton Daily News)
http://www.wahpetondailynews.com/articles/2005/06/22/news/news01.txt
Non-profits concerned about shutdown (KSTP)
http://www.kstp.com/article/stories/S8929.html?cat=1
Showdown, shutdown, then blame (Duluth News Tribune)
http://www.duluthsuperior.com/mld/duluthsuperior/news/local/11964324.htm
Sen. Johnson Serves Up Snacks To House Republicans (WCCO)
http://wcco.com/topstories/local_story_173181146.html
Budget impasse moves into courtroom (Pioneer Press)
http://www.twincities.com/mld/twincities/news/politics/capitol/11960877.htm
Officials make case for core services to judge (Willmar AP)
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/M/MN_SHUTDOWN_COURT_MNOL-?SITE=MNWIL&SECTION=STATE&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2005-06-23-08-59-02
Despite cuts, school bands will play on (Winona Daily News)
http://www.winonadailynews.com/articles/2005/06/23/news/02bands.txt
Court is next stage for state budget drama (Star Tribune)
http://www.startribune.com/stories/587/5471505.html
Hearing Today On Essential State Services (WCCO)
http://wcco.com/topstories/local_story_174074643.html
House approves flag-burning ban (Duluth News Tribune)
http://www.duluthsuperior.com/mld/duluthsuperior/11964302.htm
Pawlenty: National Guard commits to replacement mission at Duluth (Brainerd AP)
http://ap.brainerddispatch.com/pstories/state/mn/20050622/3115898.shtml
State Leaders Campaign to Keep Duluth Airbase Open (KARE 11)
http://www.kare11.com/news/news_article.aspx?storyid=100500