The Daily Digest: 6-25-07
MPR says the Minnesota Health Department's "gold standard" isn't so gold as a result of delaying the information. The Star Tribune says questions continue to surround her.
The Star Tribune says schools boards are assembling their budgets and are looking at cutbacks.
Forum Communications says the number of children in poverty in Minnesota has greatly increased.
The Brainerd Dispatch says Attorney General Lori Swanson wants to raise fraud awareness.
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National Guard soldiers start coming home.
DFL Senate Majority Leader Larry Pogemiller has an op-ed in the Star Tribune on budget forecasting.
GOP House Minority Leader Marty Seifert is mentioned in this story on college coaching contracts.
Seifert also isn't giving a special session much of a chance this year.
Congress
The Hill says Senate GOP lawmakers rap the union organizing bill that is coming up next week. GOP Sen. Norm Coleman is mentioned.
Coleman will also attend a hearing on gas markets. Bloomberg takes a look at a gas company that may have evaded regulators through loopholes.
Saddle shoes and seersucker, Norm?
DFL Sen. Amy Klobuchar says she's against impeachment.
She also talks issues with KSTP.
Her efforts on elder care also make an ABC News story.
DFL Rep. Keith Ellison has a forum on immigration reform.
A local Minnesota pastor is also getting more involved in the immigration issue.
DFL Rep. Tim Walz releases his earmarks.
The Farmington Post Office is renamed after GOP Rep. John Kline takes steps to do it.
Specialty crops may make their way into the farm bill. DFL Rep. Collin Peterson is mentioned.
The Des Moines Register says the farm bill is bringing some unease
There's some pushback on DFL Rep. Jim Oberstar's bill that would regulate ditches as waterways.
2008
A report says Arizona Senator John McCain could be out of the presidential race by September.
The Rothenberg Political Report says Coleman is vulnerable.
A DFL challenger to GOP Rep. Michele Bachmann is making his case.
2008 RNC
The Pi Press says war protesters are hoping for 100.000 at the convention.