The Morning Report 8/29/08 - Daily Minnesota Political Stories
Top Story: Pawlenty is not McCain's vice presidential candidate.
Best of the Blogs and Think Tank Thoughts:
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Best of the Blogs and Think Tank Thoughts:
- Vance Opperman to the GOP: Pick Pawlenty, Politics in Minnesota
- Taa Daaa! GOP build out at Xcel complete, True North
- Pawlenty and the scrutiny of a VP candidate, mnpACT!
- If Pawlenty V.P. choice look for action in the MN State Senate, MN Campaign Report
- Best & Worst of Congress, Washingtonian. Top aides name Michele Bachmann #2 most clueless in the House.
- Law and order, True North
- This political convention brought to you by AT&T, Minnesota Independent
- Range miners talk strike as negotiations heat up, Minnesota Brown
- Carol Molnau, partisan hack, votes down anti-war billboard, MN Campaign Report
- A pair of Jedi masters become one with The Force, Defenestrator - The Rake
- Target settles suit over Web access, Star Tribune
- Xcel agreement dims coal's future, critics say, MPR
- Eminent domain debate, Finance and Commerce
- Retailers hope to snare sales from RNC crowds, MSP Business Journal
- Apple Valley-based Wings Credit Union opens in Orlando, Finance and Commerce
- Coleman raises $1.27 million in latest period, AP
- Scarlet 'L': Lobbyists mix with pols, Politico. Franken makes money pitch to lobbyist-donors in Denver.
- Davis, Walz on the air, Mankato Free Press
- Abortion protester from Minnesota among those drowned out at women's caucus at DNC, AP
- Reality Check: Politics And Race, WCCO
Education:
- Search for Hennepin County library director to be nationwide, Star Tribune
- Attorney General: Duluth school district should accept anti-'red plan' petition, Duluth News Tribune
Events:
- The trappings of democracy are on display in metro, Star Tribune
- Board alleges wrongdoing by Goodhue County judge, Red Wing Republican Eagle
- Editorial: Drinking age needs discussion, St. Cloud Times
- Editorial: Learn from other school district's funding woes, Rochester Post-Bulletin
- Pawlenty: 'I'm not going to Ohio today,' WCCO
- Pawlenty: It's a 'fair assumption' he is not McCain's V.P. pick, MPR
- Pawlenty indicates he's not McCain's running mate, AP
- Pawlenty says he's going to State Fair, not McCain rally, Star Tribune
- Kessler on Pawlenty veep prospects, WCCO
- Pawlenty abruptly cancels afternoon interviews in Denver, returns to Minnesota, AP
- Pawlenty cancels media interviews, MPR
- In the wings: Molnau says she's ready, Star Tribune
- The Tim Pawlenty Primer, City Pages
Public Health/Safety:
- New explosive detecting units to be used at MSP, KSTP
- Protesters accuse police of intimidation tactics, KARE 11
- Hazelden teams with Dartmouth Medical School on addiction program, MSP Business Journal
- Protesters set up tents at Harriet Island Regional Park, MPR
- 'Bushville' protest camp proves short-lived, Pioneer Press
- Board pulls plug on anti-war billboard, AP
- Tech providers work to ensure RNC is state-of-the-art, Finance and Commerce
- Student group objects to 'U' note about protests, AP
- Bloggers gain unprecedented access to GOP Convention, Finance and Commerce
- St. Paul spiffs up for the Republican National Convention, MPR
- Conservative activists will stake tents here, rally in Minneapolis, Red Wing Republican Eagle
- VA delegation cancels guide order over GLBT section, KSTP
- Keeping tabs: RNC winners, losers, Star Tribune
- GOP officials unveil podium and final touches for convention, MinnPost
- Empty storefronts filled in time for RNC, KSTP
- Denver exhales; St. Paul holds its breath, News Cut - MPR
- Minneapolis Mayor R.T. Rybak plays big role at both conventions, MPR
- Hennepin County will tighten its belt in 2009, Star Tribune
- GOP host St. Paul gets day in the sun, AP
- Comcast may limit Internet use to 250 GB, Bloomberg News
- Cost of text messaging rising - or is it?, Future Tense - APM
- Podcasting has far to go before entering mainstream, Future Tense - APM
- Central Corridor: Light rail, heavy planning, Finance and Commerce
- Wisconsin: College freshmen getting free bikes for leaving cars at home, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
- Deep roots and the lure of food on a stick, New York Times. Minneapolis and St. Paul are 'the greatest rivals since Cain and Abel;' MN state fairgrounds are 'stunning.'

