What a weekend! Nice weather, Hillary Clinton, Karl Rove and Tiger Woods. Let's catch up on some news. The Red Lake High School reopens this week. MPR's Tom Robertson has an interview with one of the teachers who was in the building during the shootings:

Chris Johnson was in his welding shop in the old section of the school. All but one of the shootings took place in a newer section, which opened just last fall. Johnson's classroom was empty, just himself and a custodian named Tom. Johnson recalls it was maybe five minutes before 3 p.m.

"All the sudden we hear these noises. And I said, well what in the hell was that? And both Tom and I looked out my welding shop window, and there is our security guy laying on the floor down the hallway, about 35 feet from our window. I swear I could have looked for a minute thinking, what in the hell am I looking at? What is this?"

MPR's Laura McCallum has an item about that visit from Sen, Hillary Rodham Clinton:

The New York Democrat spoke at the DFL's annual Hubert H. Humphrey dinner. Clinton says the Bush administration is trying to undo the progress made during the presidency of her husband, Bill Clinton. She criticized the Bush administration for the growing federal deficit and the president's plan to overhaul Social Security.

Clinton also talked about the issue she may be best known for - health care - and noted that 80,000 Minnesotans have lost their health insurance in recent years.

"And I'd like to say those people - because this is probably the issue I hear more about in every corner of New York - I would like to say that the DFL and the Democrats and I will never forget you. Because we will never stop fighting for quality, affordable health care for every single American," she said.

One thing Clinton didn't mention in her speech Saturday night was her plan for 2008. I'd like to put a quote in here from Karl Rove during his visit Friday night to raise money for Gov. Tim Pawlenty. Unfortunately Rove's speech wasn't open to the press. If you were there and heard him, let me know what he said.

The Associated Press has a profile of one of Pawlenty's top DFL critics in the Legislature, Sen. Larry Pogemiller:

"I don't like his style of governance," said Pogemiller, a senator from Minneapolis. "He basically has a press conference style of governance. It's all public relations. I think it's more important to work on major issues that fundamentally affect education, fiscal policy, health care. I personally don't believe Gov. Pawlenty has done a good job on that yet."

Just don't call them personal attacks. "On a personal level, heck, he's very charming," Pogemiller said, his staccato voice jumping nearly an octave. "On a personal level we get along great. But this is business, and so far, it's a disappointment."

Meet Larry Pogemiller, 53, chairman of the Senate Taxes Committee and self-described Type-A personality. A longtime Capitol dealmaker with a well-known penchant for theatrics, Pogemiller has stepped up as one of Pawlenty's chief adversaries as Democrats try to outmaneuver the savvy governor in a session with high stakes for both parties.

Pawlenty shrugged off the comments. "I just chalk it up to Larry being Larry," he said. "He's kind of become a parody of himself."

The governor is set to sign the bonding bill Monday. With a little more than a month to go, expect to hear much more about the budget. Pogemiller and his counterpart in the House Rep. Phil Krinkie, R-Shoreview, couldn't be more different. We'll probably hear a lot from them in the next few weeks.