DFL legislators prepare to go after unallotment powers
With the Legislature set to reconvene next month, DFLers are preparing to pass legislation that would constrain - or perhaps eliminate - the unallotment authority of the state's top official.
View Article7 policy matters that will get serious play at the Capitol in 2010
State budget problems won't be the only issue taken up by lawmakers in 2010. A raft of policy issues are expected to get time in the relevant House and Senate committees this session.
View ArticleHouse DFL preparing brief in unallotment appeal; Emmer and friends will answer
Over the objections of Republicans on the committee, DFLers on a voice vote Tuesday agreed to hire outside counsel to prepare a friend-of-the-court brief supporting the plaintiffs in the ongoing...
View ArticlePawlenty vows to ‘aggressively’ protect unallotment power
Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty fired a warning shot over the Legislature's bow Friday afternoon, promising to "aggressively" protect the governor's unallotment authority.
View ArticleDivining the Supremes on the unallotment case
One of the first things they tell you in law school -- which is later confirmed by actual legal experience -- is that nine times out of ten the lines of questioning in oral argument are irrelevant to...
View ArticleHRCC loses campaign complaint against Alliance for a Better Minnesota
A panel of three administrative law judges has shot down the state House Republican Campaign Committee's complaint that a liberal-leaning Minnesota advocacy group misrepresented GOP House members in an...
View ArticleUnallotment fix: House K-12 bill would ratify Pawlenty’s school shift
The K-12 omnibus bill that's expected to reach the House floor late this week already contains a provision ratifying Pawlenty's "mimic" of a K-12 education payment shift. That would solve $1.2 billion...
View ArticleGOP legislators don’t agree on all of Pawlenty’s unallotments
DFLers aren't the only ones that are mulling over the question of which unallotments to ratify or restore.
View ArticleUnallotment II: The rematch
Wednesday's Minnesota Supreme Court decision invalidating the one-man, $2.7 billion budget-balancing act undertaken last year by Gov. Tim Pawlenty left Democrats cheering and Republicans sniping, but...
View ArticleDFL lege leaders present their budget plan
DFL legislative leaders have released their proposal for balancing the state's nearly $3 billion budget deficit by the time the session legally must adjourn next Monday. And the essential trade-off...
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