The Daily Digest: 3-16-07
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The digest comes to you from Iowa for a second straight day. By the way, don't go out looking for dinner at 10:45 pm in Mason City. Not much out there. Gov. Pawlenty is back in Minnesota this morning after spending yesterday in the state campaigning for Arizona Senator John McCain. There are a bunch of stories. Some focus on VP. Others on Browns Valley. MPR, the Star Tribune, KTTC, Fox9, KARE-11 and KCCI have the local angle. NBC, the New York Times and ABC cover it and don't mention Pawlenty.
Pawlenty does his radio show from Camp Ripley this morning and will visit Browns Valley in the afternoon.
Legislature
The Senate Transportation funding bill gets out of committee.
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For those keeping score at home:
This is the bill Gov. Pawlenty has vowed to veto because it includes a gas tax. The Star Tribune, the Pi Press, Forum Communications and KARE-11 have stories.
The House passed a USA flag bill. AP and the Pi Press have stories.
AP says the smoking ban bill moves on.
WCCO reality checks education spending.
The Senate rejects a bill that would elect the Met Council.
DFL Rep. Frank Moe wants to protect wild rice.
There's also a bill that would pry open meetings conducted by e-mail and instant message.
Forum Communications takes a look at the push for more early learning money.
KARE-11 says lawmakers in Minnesota and Wisconsin are both trying to get tougher sex offender laws.
Congress
The Senate rejects a call to pull U.S. troops. GOP Sen. Norm Coleman is mentioned in this New York Times story.
Coleman and DFL Sen. Amy Klobuchar rip Attorney General Alberto Gonzalez. Coleman stops short of calling for his resignation. Klobuchar says he should go. AP and Bloomberg have stories.
Coleman also wants an end to the backlog of passport applications.
DFL Rep. Betty McCollum doesn't like some aspects of the No Child Left Behind law.
DFL Rep. Keith Ellison attends the American Israel Public Affair Committee Convention.
The Des Moines Register says Democrats are struggling to fund farm programs. DFL Rep. Collin Peterson says no cuts will be made to current farm programs to pay for new ones.
Peterson will also visit Browns Valley to see the flood damage.
This comes after a House panel approved funding for disaster aid.
Peterson is also mentioned in this Financial Times story on the debate over ending ethanol subsidies.
2008
The Washington Post's "The Fix" has the Senate rankings for '08 and Minnesota is second to
New Hampshire
Colorado.
Other
Fox9 takes a look at Minneapolis Mayor R.T. Rybak's property taxes and say they went down.
CNN says a debate over the top political issues spilled out in the open at a national evangelical meeting in Minneapolis.
