The Daily Digest
Welcome to the Daily Digest, where we take a look at Wisconsin's jobs numbers, we learn that honor guards will get funding after all, and we watch as Washington is gripped by a scheduling crisis.
Around Minnesota
After cutting funds for groups that provide funeral honors for veterans, the Veterans Affairs Commission says it will continue providing the money.
The PoliGraph says that the Senate GOP's claim that Wisconsin expanded its workforce after cutting taxes is misleading.
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Sen. Amy Koch will be at the State Fair today, as will Gov. Mark Dayton.
House Speaker Kurt Zellers spoke with fair-goers on Wednesday.
Rep. Michele Bachmann will address the American Legion this morning.
Congress
Reps. Keith Ellison and Nancy Pelosi talked about famine in Africa at the U.
The Commission on Wartime Contracting finds that $60 billion in U.S. funding has been lost to waste and fraud in Iraq and Afghanistan over the last 10 years.
Sen. Al Franken cheered the U.S. Justice Department's decision to go to court to block a merger between AT&T and T-Mobile.
The Race for President
MPR's Midday profiled Bachmann.
The Los Angeles Times says Bachmann is an outsider among her peers on Capitol Hill.
She's back in Iowa touting her jobs policy.
Over the weekend, Bachmann said she'd be open to drilling in the Everglades. Fellow tea party supporter Florida Rep. Allan West said in a town hall meeting that the comment was "an incredible faux pas."
She's facing electability questions in the South.
A pro-Bachmann super PAC is running ads against Texas Gov. Rick Perry in South Carolina.
Politico reports that Perry has stirred the progressive base in a way that former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney and President Barack Obama haven't. Dem strategist James Carville says, "We'd all prefer Michele Bachmann."
Obama wanted to lay out his jobs plan to Congress on Sept. 7.
House Speaker John Boehner said no.
It may have been because the GOP presidential candidates were due to debate that night, too.
Coincidence? Unlikely.
Obama will speak the next evening - the same night as the NFL opener.
Arizona may move its primary, which could prompt other states to do the same. WaPo has a primer on states to watch, and Minnesota is mentioned (as not much of a threat to the line-up).
The Vikings Stadium
The Ramsey County Charter Commission has punted a possible vote to October.