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Gov. Tim Pawlenty

Lawmakers, Pawlenty score goal

05/20/2008 12:00 AM
Minnesota State News
ST. PAUL – The 2008 Minnesota Legislature played out much like a hockey game.

What Minnesota legislators did

05/20/2008 12:00 AM
Minnesota State News
ST. PAUL – How some issues fared in the Minnesota Legislature this year:

Retiring lawmakers honored, frustrated

05/20/2008 12:00 AM
Minnesota State News
ST. PAUL – Most were known, some were expected and one came as a surprise.

Legislature wrapping up

05/19/2008 12:00 AM
Minnesota State News
ST. PAUL – Tax breaks and a park. A balanced budget and health-care reform. More education money and improved nursing home funding.

Health deal made; utility cities to get help

05/19/2008 12:00 AM
Minnesota State News
Minnesotans should pay less for health care insurance under a plan senators passed 62-5 and representatives supported 127-7 early Sunday.

Man who robbed Hastings bank may be responsible for string of Metro-area bank heists

05/19/2008 12:00 AM
Minnesota State News
According to the Minneapolis FBI, the man who robbed the TCF Bank in Hastings May 9 is also believed to be responsible for bank robberies in Duluth, Forest Lake, Oakdale, St. Paul and most recently, Roseville May 14.

Pawlenty vetoes minimum wage

05/16/2008 12:00 AM
Minnesota State News
ST. PAUL – Gov. Tim Pawlenty vetoed an increase in Minnesota’s minimum wage Thursday, and the issue probably will not arise again this legislative session.

Tax, budget talks face deadline

05/16/2008 12:00 AM
Minnesota State News
ST. PAUL – Legislative leaders did not appear panicked Thursday even though little time remains for them and Gov. Tim Pawlenty to hammer out a session-ending deal.

Senate committee drops emissions standard; no on seat belt measure

05/16/2008 12:00 AM
Minnesota State News
A Senate committee Thursday rejected an effort to make all cars sold in Minnesota conform to strict California emissions guidelines.

Governors' portraits vandalized

05/15/2008 12:00 AM
Minnesota State News
ST. PAUL – Portraits of three former governors displayed in the Minnesota Capitol were vandalized Wednesday, but the state Historical Society said they can be repaired.

Budget talks focus on taxes

05/15/2008 12:00 AM
Minnesota State News
ST. PAUL – Legislative leaders and Gov. Tim Pawlenty are studying how property tax changes would affect communities across the state, a complicated and time-consuming effort that appears likely to push any legislative session-ending deal into Thursday.

Much of Legislature's work already done

05/15/2008 12:00 AM
Minnesota State News
ST. PAUL – State budget-balancing work dominates the Minnesota Legislature’s final days, but this year much of the big news already is on the books – or failed.

Pawlenty vetoes health, education bills

05/14/2008 12:00 AM
Minnesota State News
ST. PAUL – It appears there may be no health care reform and hockey probably will not be Minnesota’s state sport any time soon.

Legislators seek tax meeting with Pawlenty

05/14/2008 12:00 AM
Minnesota State News
ST. PAUL – State budget talks broke down Tuesday night, and Democratic legislative leaders immediately began sending the governor bills he opposes before offering him a new olive branch.

Lake Elmo woman accused of trafficking in protected wildlife products

05/14/2008 12:00 AM
A Lake Elmo woman is one of two accused of smuggling into the country and then attempting to sell products derived from protected species.

New law advances state Minnesota biofuel lead

05/14/2008 12:00 AM
Minnesota State News
ST. PAUL – Other states will look at Minnesota as a leader in an emerging area of renewable fuels, lawmakers and Gov. Tim Pawlenty said as the governor signed a bill mandating more biofuel use.

Deal eludes Pawlenty, lawmakers

05/13/2008 12:00 AM
Minnesota News
ST. PAUL – It was a week before they must go home for a year, but with no deal to balance the budget Minnesota legislators Monday debated health-care reform, a constitutional amendment and whether to allow dogs on cafe patios.

Bemidji kicks off Sesquicentennial week

05/13/2008 12:00 AM
Minnesota News
BEMIDJI, Minn. -- While eating pancakes early Monday morning at the Bemidji Senior Center, Gov. Tim Pawlenty asked Jody Tolbert what she thought was great about Minnesota.

DFL prepares its own budget plan

05/12/2008 12:00 AM
Minnesota State News
ST. PAUL – The Democrat-controlled Legislature could today send Gov. Tim Pawlenty a budget-balancing package he has not agreed to as Minnesota lawmakers enter the final week of the legislative session.

Judges: reject Big Stone II request

05/12/2008 12:00 AM
Minnesota State News
ST. PAUL – A judicial panel recommends the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission reject an electric transmission project in western Minnesota that is linked to the proposed Big Stone II power plant.

House wants more work on seat belt bill

05/12/2008 12:00 AM
Minnesota State News
ST. PAUL – Torrey Westrom lost his eyesight, but survived a traffic accident when he was 16 and not wearing a seat belt.

State would study impact of lake home rentals on resort industry

05/12/2008 12:00 AM
People who rent their lakefront homes may be adversely affecting resorts, which already face hardships to keep their cabins open, says Assistant House Majority Leader Frank Moe, DFL-Bemidji.

Lawmakers wade through 8,000-plus bills

05/09/2008 12:00 AM
Minnesota State News
ST. PAUL – Rep. Tom Rukavina has introduced 66 bills during the current two-year legislative session, including at least one he knew would go nowhere.

Bathroom fire forces flight to make emergency landing at Fargo airport; FBI investigating

05/09/2008 12:00 AM
Minnesota State News
FARGO, N.D. -- The FBI is investigating the cause of a bathroom fire that forced a Compass Airlines jet to make an emergency landing Wednesday at Fargo’s Hector International Airport.

Pawlenty prepares for budget woes

05/09/2008 12:00 AM
Minnesota State News
ST. PAUL – In a sign that state budget negotiations are not going well, Gov. Tim Pawlenty is looking at ways to fix a budget deficit if he and legislative leaders cannot reach an agreement by the Legislature’s May 19 adjournment date.

Hockey/Education bill heads to governor

05/09/2008 12:00 AM
Minnesota State News
ST. PAUL – Minnesota Rep. Bud Heidgerken thinks legislative education negotiators had an ulterior motive to make hockey the state sport.

Single lane on Hastings bridge extended by an hour through May 9

05/09/2008 12:00 AM
Construction crews reduced traffic on the Hastings bridge to one lane for most of the past two weeks as they worked to install a platform beneath the deck to support equipment and workers during the project.

House thanks Lieder, other World War II vets

05/09/2008 12:00 AM
ST. PAUL – Rep. Bernie Lieder is a member of the “Greatest Generation,” but he never would use such a term about himself.

Booster seats booted from bill

05/08/2008 12:00 AM
Minnesota News
ST. PAUL – Pawlenty administration officials and legislators paved over a pothole that prevented agreement on highway safety issues Wednesday, but a transportation bill containing those issues faces a likely rough road today when representatives debate a strict seatbelt provision.

Hospital wins OK

05/08/2008 12:00 AM
House members gave overwhelming approval to allow Fargo, N.D.-based Prairie St. John’s to build a psychiatric hospital in Woodbury.

Waging a debate over minimum wage

05/08/2008 12:00 AM
Minnesota News
Supporters of raising the minimum wage thought they had a deal with the Pawlenty administration on a higher minimum wage, but Wednesday heard that the governor doesn't like the negotiated deal and could veto it.

Transportation bill survives misunderstanding

05/07/2008 12:00 AM
Minnesota State News
ST. PAUL – Tempers occasionally flared, but most legislative negotiators kept their nose to the grindstone Tuesday in an effort to wrap up the 2008 Minnesota Legislature’s work.

Sesquicentennial Wagon Train

05/07/2008 12:00 AM
Minnesota State News
The pioneers weren’t the only travelers who faced hardships trying to get from here to there with limited horsepower.

Embezzler is handed two-year jail term

05/07/2008 12:00 AM
MINNEAPOLIS — A 58-year-old Welch woman will spend two years in prison for stealing more than $448,000 from her former employer.

Driver kills dog near Cloquet, Minn.; sues owners

05/07/2008 12:00 AM
Soon after a car struck and killed a dog just north of Cloquet, Minn., the driver added insult to the injury: He filed suit against the family for the damage done to his vehicle.

House votes to raise most property taxes, some down

05/06/2008 12:00 AM
Minnesota State News
ST. PAUL – A third of Minnesota homeowners would pay lower property taxes under a bill the House passed 80-52 late Monday.

Agreement reached on bridge survivors' compensation

05/06/2008 12:00 AM
Minnesota State News
ST. PAUL – Minnesota lawmakers approved a plan Monday to pay survivors of last year’s Interstate 35W bridge collapse.

Delta chief: Merger won't hurt rural service

05/06/2008 12:00 AM
ST. PAUL – Passenger air service in rural areas of the upper Midwest would not be harmed by a Northwest-Delta airline merger, but high fuel prices could affect service, a Delta executive said.

Senate backs foreclosure delay

05/06/2008 12:00 AM
ST. PAUL – Senators said they were responding Monday to reckless residential mortgage lending practices when they approved a plan giving some homeowners facing foreclosure temporary reprieve.