The Daily Digest: Health care cuts coming?
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In Minnesota
Minnesota House Republicans recently unveiled a budget plan featuring a $2 billion tax cut and more education and transportation spending. To balance it, they proposed a $1.1 billion cut to health and human services, unnerving some health care advocates. (MPR News)
A state-owned ski resort in the Mesabi Range has lost money every year for the past 30 years. (Star Tribune)
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Even as state lawmakers want to increase education spending, school districts across the state are cutting budgets. (Pioneer Press)
The Poligraph looks at claims about a gas tax proposal and the GOP budget plan. (MPR News)
Should Legacy Amendment funds be used to buy land for Native American tribes? (Pioneer Press)
National Politics
The Obama Administration is putting the hard sell on last week's nuclear deal with Iran. (Washington Post)
Plenty of Republicans appear skeptical about the presidential prospects of Jeb Bush. (New York Times)
Sen. Rand Paul has moderated many of the positions that made him popular with libertarians as he prepares to launch his presidential bid this week. (Washington Post)
Even Minnesota Democrats were somewhat optimistic that full Republican control of Congress would mean a more productive session. Those expectations are fading fast. (MPR News)
The next big Obamacare fight will be about the so-called Cadillac tax on health plans. (Politico)
It takes about four minutes to become a presidential candidate. (NPR via MPR News)