The legislative session finally ended Sunday night.

Even though legislative leaders had hoped to avoid a Sunday night session they realized about 2 a.m. Sunday that they couldn't finish work on a supplemental spending bill unless they came back. So they nudged right up against today's constitutional deadline. But unlike last year, at least they finished on time. And, while they didn't get everything they wanted, they got a lot done for such a short session, as MPR's Laura McCallum reported:

Gov. Tim Pawlenty says leaders in both parties compromised on major issues, unlike last year's partisan gridlock and partial government shutdown.

"I kept saying, don't let the perfect get in the way of the good, let's find those things that are within the range of the do-able, and do them, and that's largely what happened this year."

Pawlenty has already signed into law several initiatives with broad bipartisan support, including bills restricting funeral protests, reducing mercury emissions and limiting local governments' power to seize private property. Senate Majority Leader Dean Johnson, DFL- Willmar, considers the session one of the most productive in his 28 years in the Legislature.

"Two stadiums, which translates into over $1 billion worth of jobs and cost of materials, a $1 billion bonding bill for jobs and materials and fixing our infrastructure."

Johnson says the recent label of the "do nothing" Legislature has been erased.

Well, maybe amended, but not quite erased.

The 2006 session will most likely go down as the stadium session, with the Twins finally ending their decade long question and the University of Minnesota ready to bring football back to campus. But there are still some big questions surrounding stadium issues, the biggest being what happens to the Metrodome? And as stadium opponent Rep Phil Krinkie, R-Lino Lakes, noted on Midday Friday, if anyone thinks the economics of Major League Baseball have been fixed why are the Twins paying Kyle Lohse nearly $4 million per year to pitch in the minor leagues?

But today all is good news in Twinsville. The Star Tribune reports even the food will be better in the new ballpark:

When the Minnesota Twins' new ballpark opens, probably for the 2010 season, nouvelle cuisine will be one of the obvious changes for fans.

In the baseball industry, an expanded stadium food menu adds to what's known as "the fan experience." It's a big reason the team has wanted a new baseball-only ballpark for the past decade.

Ask Twins President Dave St. Peter what it will be like for fans in the new park and he said, "In a sentence, the antithesis of the Metrodome."

But wait, didn't the Twins win two World Series in the Metrodome? I don't think he meant the antithesis of that.

Legislative leaders and the governor will take a final victory lap around the state today. When the governor formally announce his run for re-election?