Who’s responsible for the botched predictions of how much pulltab revenue would be available to give to a Vikings stadium? Plus: The $6,000 pricetag to watch this week’s Supreme Court hearings on same-sex marriage.
A transparency bill for concert tickets goes down to defeat in Minnesota, abortion bills advance in North Dakota, air traffic control towers close and the S.S. Badger can keep belching coal smoke, it just can’t dump ash in Lake Michigan.
A possible showdown over abortion at the state Capitol, knives on airplane, the money you leave on the table at the IRS, and the eagle with the broken eggs in Saint Paul.
Another effort to derail the same-sex marriage bill fails, efforts to increase the graduation rate, and the new pope and the non-Catholics who are intrigued by it all.
Same-sex marriage gets its first green light at the Capitol. What really happens inside the Sistine Chapel? North Korea probably won’t launch a nuclear war tonight. Soldiers lose their tuition. And what makes for the perfect obit and eulogy?
The expanded sales tax in Minnesota may not be dead after all, a key day for same-sex marriage hearings, more threats from North Korea, more green-on-green attacks in Afghanistan, a look at the comet, and so long, Percy Harvin.
Gov. Dayton drops the business tax plan, the economy picks up more steam, Republicans find it’s hard to endorse same-sex marriage, South Dakota teacher can pack heat, but Norway teachers can’t make their students drink blood.
A ‘watered-down’ gun bill finds favor at the Capitol, Gabby Giffords returns to the scene of the crime, the east tries our snowstorm on for size, and an old-fashioned filibuster in the Senate breaks out because the U.S. won’t rule out using a drone to kill Americans on U.S. soil.
How to pay for a new Vikings stadium if gambling isn’t the answer, the latest on the sequester, why wouldn’t someone do CPR to save an elderly woman, and the kids who danced so someone else could live.
The cruise to hell and back, the Hagel filibuster, Cory Booker’s path to the Senate, why is Wikipedia being used by people who could you to prison, and the political price of opposing same-sex marriage.
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