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- Chicago at the State Theatre: As perfect as they needed to be May 20, 2013Dwight Hobbes TC Daily Planet Once upon a time, way back in the late 1960s there were three bands who played rock music a la big-band style. They were The Electric Flag, Blood, Sweat & Tears and Chicago Transit Authority. Hipster authorities had it that the Flag were the baddest, followed in quality by the Al Kooper-led B, S & T, then the Kooper-less […]
- Widespread Panic at the Orpheum Theatre: Master musicians at their very best May 20, 2013Dwight Hobbes Sounding Off On Sound On April 14, the Orpheum Theatre was struck by Widespread Panic, inciting a completely sold out house of revelers to create absolute pandemonium. Fans of this veteran rock powerhouse are nothing if not faithful, wildly devoted to what can only be called an extreme. It must be pretty thirsty work, because when Panic hit the […]
- Eat for Equity dinner May 25 to support Friends of the Boundary Waters Wilderness May 19, 2013Jeremy Iggers Iggers Digest Eat For Equity is a wonderful volunteer-led organization that organizes fundraising dinners. Every month, they pick a different worthy cause to support, and for this month, they chose the Friends of the Boundary Waters Wilderness. (The Twin Cities Media Alliance had its turn last year.) Eat for Equity events draw a fun group of p […]
- Bonding bill fails to get House approval May 19, 2013Mike Cook Session Weekly/Session Daily Rep. Alice Hausman (DFL-St. Paul) used one word to describe what happened in the House chamber Friday afternoon: Tragic.After the $800 million omnibus capital investment bill failed to garner the necessary number of votes for passage, Hausman considered it dead for the session.“We’ve been trying for months to solidify t […]
- Met Council redistricting plan takes effect May 19, 2013Sarah Lemagie Session Weekly/Session Daily The Metropolitan Council has new district boundaries.A redistricting plan that redraws the Met Council’s 16 districts took effect May 17, 2013, the day after Gov. Mark Dayton signed a new law.Legislators considered several plans before settling on MC2013-1A, the map endorsed by administrators at the Met Council.To e […]
- Legislators may no longer set their own salaries May 19, 2013Mike Cook Session Weekly/Session Daily Voters could elect to have a citizen-only board decide legislators’ salaries.Passed by the House 69-62 Friday, HF1823 proposes a constitutional amendment that would ask if a 16-member citizen council appointed by governor and chief justice of the state Supreme Court should set legislators’ salaries. Under the bill, the […]
- Contributors asked to pay more into pension funds May 19, 2013Liz Stoever Session Weekly/Session Daily Funding deficiencies across several state public pension and retiree plans could mean a series of benefit reductions along with contribution increases.These provisions are included in the omnibus pension bill passed by the House 78-52 Saturday and the Senate 38-27 Friday. The bill now awaits gubernatorial action.In co […]
- Higher education budget heads to Dayton's desk May 19, 2013Sarah Lemagie Session Weekly/Session Daily A budget bill that would freeze tuition at Minnesota’s public colleges and universities is one step away from becoming law.In a 44-22 vote on Friday, the Senate passed a plan to boost state spending on higher education by $250 million in the next biennium. Hours later, the House followed suit in a vote of 76-56. The […]
- K-12 spending plan nears finish line May 19, 2013Sarah Lemagie Session Weekly/Session Daily A $15.7 billion plan to fund Minnesota’s schools is clearing its final hurdles at the Capitol.Senate and House members emerged from negotiations this weekend with a two-year budget that includes landmark spending on all-day kindergarten, along with increases for special education, preschool scholarships and classroo […]
- House, Senate pass omnibus environment, agriculture bill May 19, 2013Jonathan Mohr Session Weekly/Session Daily Several controversial fee increases were removed during the conference committee process, but the omnibus environment, natural resources and agriculture finance and policy bill still received several hours of criticism on the House floor Saturday evening before being passed by a 71-60 vote. Passed 42-23 by the Senat […]
