The Morning Report 5/2/08 - Daily Minnesota Political Stories
Top Story: McCain backs off I-35 bridge statement; flap continues.
Agriculture:
Opinion-Editorial:
Agriculture:
- Rep. Tim Walz says farm bill vote could come next week, MPR
- Region boosted by exports, farm incomes, biofuels, Star Tribune
- White House warns Farm Law needs 'real reforms,' Reuters
- How to lose a Senate challenge, True North
- Pawlenty and McCain: clumsy dance partners, mnpACT!
- Veepstakes: The brackets, The Political Animal
- A+B=WTF, Defenestrator - The Rake
- MPR: Walz and Coleman support Farm Bill, Bluestem Prairie
- Shock!! Oberstar officially announces re-election bid, The Political Animal
- Caught on camera: GOP tosses journalist, The Uptake. Video bloggers get tossed from GOP conventions.
- Tarryl's accountability dodge?, True North
- Oberstar, Ellison blast McCain for bridge collapse remarks, MN Monitor
- Pawlenty softens VP stance?, Mary's Page - TPT
- D'oh!, Ladies Logic
- Tinklenberg a moderate? I don't think so, Let Freedom Ring
- Pork flies: Bill makes state pay for same land twice, MN Monitor
- MN Gov. Pawlenty questions McCain's stance on bridge collapse, The Trail - Washington Post
- Minnesota economy shows some life in April, Pioneer Press
- Home Depot closing its Cottage Grove store, Star Tribune
- Report: Twin Cities ranks 5th in corporate expansion, MSP Business Journal
- Area foreclosures rising at slower pace, Mankato Free Press
- Whom does economy favor in Midwest?, Politico. 'Relatively robust places – the farm towns and cities of the Great Plains, or the CT suburbs – have been more susceptible to Obama's broad reformer message than Clinton’s focused economic one.'
- Republican blogger's scoops on Al Franken knock his Senate campaign off balance, AP. Profile of Minnesota Democrats Exposed blogger Michael Brodkorb.
- Accountants: Franken's tax problems should have been caught, MPR
- Pawlenty says sex ed proposal is unacceptable, MPR
- Early bids for Duluth schools 'red plan' work under budget, Duluth News Tribune
- Olmsted County Republicans asleep at the switch?, Rochester Post-Bulletin
- Minnesota lawmakers seek federal same-day registration law, AP
- Pawlenty corrects McCain on 35W bridge collapse, Star Tribune
- McCain's bridge remarks draw bipartisan criticism, MPR
- McCain backs off government waste as cause of bridge collapse, AP
- Outrage delayed, News Cut - MPR
- Bridge compensation deal reached, AP
- 'Plan B' to help victims of 35W bridge collapse is on the table at Capitol, Pioneer Press
- Please veto my bill!, Polinaut - MPR
- Lawmaker to guv: What happens at the end of oil?, MinnPost
- Minnesota House OKs higher minimum wage, Mankato Free Press
Opinion-Editorial:
- Editorial: Hennepin County needs HMO review, Star Tribune
- Editorial: Everyone out of the revenue-sharing pool, Star Tribune
- Family of slain U.S. soldier pursues $40 billion class-action against Flagstaff T-shirt vendor, Dolan Media Newswires. Shirt says, 'Bush Lied, They Died.'
- Pawlenty ups the ante on illegal immigration, Polinaut - MPR
- Pawlenty's veto of unique music library hits sour note in Chatfield, MinnPost
- State will pay for cleanup of Inver Grove Heights couple's tainted land, Star Tribune
- Saving the sand-bottom pool, MPR
- Smoking "Theater Nights" at bars going to court, KARE 11
- Immigration march: Police practice for RNC?, News Cut - MPR
- Immigrant rally shrouded by fear, Star Tribune
- MnDOT's new guy talks transit, bridges and, briefly, boots, Star Tribune
- One-on-one with new MnDOT Commissioner Sorel, KSTP
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