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With the budget clock ticking, Hennepin County commissioners got no answers Tuesday on how they might close an anticipated $25 million gap in next year's Hennepin County Medical Center budget. Gov. Tim Pawlenty has slated for elimination to help solve...
Tags: Hennepin County Medical Center, Larry Kryzaniak, GAMC, HCMC, County Board, Jeff Johnson, Minneapolis, Mike Opat, Tim Pawlenty, Hennepin County Minnesota
The Minnesota House mischaracterized the economic factors Gov. Tim Pawlenty used to justify cutting funds for a nutrition program for the elderly, blind and disabled, according to a letter filed in court Tuesday by his lawyer. Six people who received...
Tags: Tim Pawlenty, Minneapolis, Social Issues
A federal prosecutor has been appointed to a state court vacancy in Hastings, the governor's office announced Tuesday morning...MacDonald, 42, was chosen by Gov. Tim Pawlenty to join the First District Court and succeed Leslie M...MacDonald has been an...
Tags: Erica H. MacDonald, Chicago, Mendota Heights, Tim Pawlenty, James Henry Alesia, Law Crime
count 'em, three -- Republicans who may have 2012 aspirations on the White House either visited Iowa or announced plans to stop there soon. On Nov. 7, Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty was the keynoter at the state GOP's "Leadership for Iowa" dinner in Des...
Tags: Iowa, planting seeds, Des Moines, Sarah Palin, United States presidential election, Mike Huckabee, Tim Pawlenty, Politics
Leaders of the Metro Gang Strike Force and police union attorneys pressured the Minnesota Legislative Reference Library, the state attorney general and a commission that oversees the library to remove the 2008 Metro Gang Strike Force report from its website.
Tags: Strike Force Advisory Board, Metro Gang Strike Force, Robbie LaFleur, force office, force reports, gangs strike, Honolulu, Tim Pawlenty
Nearly three years into his administration, Gov. Ted Strickland yesterday released nearly 300 clemency decisions, freeing a Lucas County murderer, pardoning a former Chauncey village official on 30-year-old charges, and conditionally pardoning a Columbus...
Tags: Ted Strickland, New York City, Commutation of sentence, Strickland, Bob Taft, Criminal procedure, Pardon, Penology, Law Crime, Minnesota Board of Pardons, Tim Pawlenty, Eric J. Magnuson, Kenneth Biros, Parole board, Parole, Social Issues
A Republican with deep ties to the Minnesota business community has decided against a run for governor next year. Minnesota Business Partnership Executive Director Charlie Weaver said Monday he won't get into the wide-open race. Weaver had been mulling...
Tags: Minnesota Business Partnership, Canada, Saint Paul, Charlie Weaver, Tim Pawlenty, Politics
She cries when she gets angry, Barb Olson, executive director of the Southside Family Nurturing Center in Minneapolis, told the Hennepin County Board on Friday. "You just need to know that," she told commissioners. "My husband does...Then Olson, her voice...
Tags: Human Services Department, Barb Olson, Hennepin County Board, Curt Haats, Minneapolis, Hennepin County Minnesota, Tim Pawlenty, Social Issues
M innesota and Wisconsin residents who work in their neighboring state might get some relief from what could become a tax-time hassle. Minnesota Revenue Commissioner Ward Einess is willing to renew negotiations on a decades-old income-tax reciprocity...
Tags: Wisconsin, Minnesota, income tax, wisconsin residents, Kit Borgman, Weston, Tax return, Income tax in Australia, States of the United States, Taxation in the United States, Tim Pawlenty
Gov. Tim Pawlenty's Republican Party was the biggest user of a campaign program he axed that gives donors tax refunds for part of their contributions. A report from state campaign finance regulators Friday showed that donors to the Minnesota Republican...
Tags: Minnesota House, Tim Pawlenty, Minnesota Republican Party, Canada, Saint Paul, Republican Party of Minnesota, Republican Party, Politics