The Daily Digest (minimum wage, endorsements, 2016)
Welcome to Monday's Daily Digest.
Minnesota:
Legislative leaders are expected to announce a deal on a minimum wage increase. They said last night they would hold a news conference this morning to talk about it. There has already been a preliminary agreement to raise the wage to $9.50 per hour. The dispute was over whether to index the rate to inflation.
DFL State Rep. Phyllis Kahn failed to win endorsement for a 22nd term at her district convention. Her race with Mohamud Noor is headed to the primary. (MPR News)
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First district Republicans endorsed Aaron Miller to run against U.S. Rep. Tim Walz. (Rochester Post Bulletin)
Second congressional district Republicans endorsed Republican Congressman John Kline for a seventh term. (MPR News)
The latest Supreme Court ruling on campaign donations will have an effect on at least a few of Minnesota donors. (MPR News)
PoliGraph says a DFL claim about Sen. Julianne Ortman's record is mostly right. (MPR News)
A legislative panel will decide if the state's new health insurance exchange will get a top-to-bottom audit. (MPR News)
Washington:
President Barack Obama is poised to sign an executive order Tuesday that is meant to assuage pay disparities among federal contractor employees. (AP via MPR News)
Jeb Bush has a campaign strategy (but he hasn't declared that he's running). (The New York Times)
Potential 2016 candidates are studying up for a run. (The Washington Post)
The Koch brothers fundraising apparatus is going after Democrats and now Democrats think they've found a way to go after the Kochs. (The News York Times)
Vulnerable Democratic Senators are getting plenty of face time on the Senate floor. (Politico)