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 use for drivers but it isn't being fully embraced by state policy leaders.  "We need to set rules or laws that we can enforce," Gov. Dayton said on Midday.  He didn't 

.  DFL Rep. Frank Hornstein sent out a release saying he supports it.  

Dayton appeared on MPR's Midday on Tuesday.  You can listen to the full show 

 to keep the city's property tax levy at its current rate.  Voters defeated the school district backed levy eight times in a row before passing it last night.

 The Minnesota Chamber of Commerce's Session Priorities Dinner is Jan. 24.  Gov. Dayton will keynote the event.

 says Minnesota's frigid climate is a selling point for data farms.

 says Republican Tom Emmer, who lost the race for governor in 2010, is complaining that Hamline University rescinded a job offer to him because some staffers objected to his political views.

a Texas company of stonewalling her investigation into whether it cheated a vulnerable adult out of thousands of dollars.

Gov. Dayton suggests that he would want to 

 the Arden Hills site even if they don't get the stadium.

 in Minnesota in the 1st Quarter of 2012.

 for a payroll tax cut extension bill that President Obama threatened to veto.

A Minnesota farmer asks MF Global at a hearing: 

 finds that 75% of those polled rate this Congress as below average or one of the worst.  A new low.  69% of those polled disapprove of the job Republicans are doing.  62% disapprove of the job Democrats are doing.

Attorney General Eric Holder is vowing to 

DFL Rep. Keith Ellison and House liberals 

Newt Gingrich surged past Mitt Romney in a new 

 says Romney is struggling with primary voters.  Gingrich has problems with general election voters.

The NBC poll finds that a majority of Republicans view the presidential field as "

 says Ron Paul is closing in on Newt Gingrich in Iowa.

 that Gingrich is an "extremely unreliable" conservative leader.

A number of Iowa pastors say GOP Rep. Michele Bachmann is the 

 says some GOP strategists are worried that Gingrich will have a negative effect on other GOP candidates on the ballot.

 says social issues are bubbling up in the presidential race.

 says he regrets being bullish on Tim Pawlenty's presidential prospects.

 a presidential debate but may run as an independent.

The Daily Digest (State leaders react to cell phone ban plan, Iowa heats up, Veto looms on payroll tax cut)

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