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Session Wrapup

tptadmin — Fri, 23 May 2008 16:24:55 -0500

Our Mary Lahammer gives a summary of the achievements of the just-ended legislative session.

Easter Break for Lawmakers

tptadmin — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 18:04:57 -0500

Legislators emptied out of St. Paul this week for a spring break. Our Mary Lahammer gives us the highs and lows of the first six weeks of the legislative session.

First District Republicans

tptadmin — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 18:01:22 -0500

We invited the three Republicans running for Congress in the First District to join us live. Two accepted our invitation: Dick Day and Randy Demmer. Candidate Brian Davis declined our live studio invitation.

Capitol Update - Feb. 28, 2007

tptadmin — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 18:25:03 -0600

Dick Day Going to a Primary

Mary Lahammer — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 13:57:05 -0600

State Senator Dick Day announced he will run in a primary. Brian Davis, another Republican candidate in the First Congressional District said he's disappointed and said "Senator Day went back on his word that he gave at numerous Republican activists' meetings stating he would abide by the endorsement process." Day says that primary election "are far more democratic than the current system in which party insiders hand pick the candidates." He pointed to the frustration over recent presidential caucuses in the state.
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When Lawmakers Run for Higher Office

tptadmin — Fri, 8 Feb 2008 16:08:37 -0600

Mary Lahammer looks at how lawmakers balance holding one office while running for another.

Latest on the Special Session

tptadmin — Fri, 7 Sep 2007 18:14:05 -0500

We bring you all of Friday's developments on a possible special session. Speaker of the House Margaret Anderson Kelliher and Senate Majority Leader Larry Pogemiller sit down with Senator Dick Day and Representative Laura Brod.

No LRT

Mary Lahammer — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 16:50:14 -0500

It seems a battle is brewing over light rail on the new 35W bridge. I thought we were done fighting over light rail. It was a big ugly fight in the '90s when lawmakers like current MNDOT Commissioner Molnau and Senate Minority Leader Dick Day called Hiawatha a "train to nowhere." Even Pawlenty changed his mind on this form of mass transit and became a backer of two new lines: Northstar commuter rail and the Central corridor.
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Session Review

tptadmin — Fri, 25 May 2007 15:50:48 -0500

Our Mary Lahammer fills us in on how the legislative session drew to a close.

Capitol Update - May 10, 2007

tptadmin — Thu, 10 May 2007 08:40:54 -0500