The Daily Digest: 9-14-07

Posted at 11:20 AM on September 14, 2007 by Tom Scheck
Filed under: Daily Digest

Today is the deadline for schools to give notice on whether they will ask voters to increase school funding. MPR says Anoka Hennepin Schools will close nine schools if a referendum doesn't pass.

Minnesota is pressuring Washington to preserve health care funding for kids.

A St. Paul delegation hopes a trip will remedy a Hmong grave issue in Thailand.

Gov. Pawlenty pushes for clean energy at a Wednesday news conference in Washington. AP and U.S. News have stories.

Governor Pawlenty is sending one of his children to private school. His other daughter still attends public school.

Legislative leaders were in southern Minnesota to talk about the flood relief bill that became law earlier this week.

Kessler wonders if special sessions are special.

The list of impaired waters is growing.

Congress

CQ and NPR say President Bush's speech on Iraq was meant to shore up support. Both say Coleman is inching away from the president on the war.

AP says Coleman wants to put the Petraeus recommendations into law.

DFL Sen. Amy Klobuchar says Bush's action "brings us back where we started."

DFL Rep. Tim Walz and GOP Rep. John Kline will debate the future of the Iraq war on Almanac tonight.

Klobuchar and Coleman also want insurance companies to disclose if plans include flood insurance.

Klobuchar is working to raise money for South Dakota Senator Tim Johnson.

She also says in a Senate hearing that "It's time to get serious on toy safety."

The Star Tribune says the Senate transportation bill is a little bit fat.

USA Today says $8 billion worth of pork clog infrastructure plans. DFL Rep. Jim Oberstar is mentioned.

Oberstar is also mentioned in this Salon article that says Transportation Secretary Mary Peters wants to take money from bike paths and spend it on roads.

2008

The L.A. Times takes a look at the Senate '08 scorecard.

Former White House political advisor Dick Morris writes in this New York Post article that Mike Ciresi will beat Al Franken for the DFL nomination. He doesn't say where he's getting that information.

The Nation calls Sen. Coleman a Bush Republican.

Republican senators like Coleman are urged to give voters "something new".

Stu Rothenberg says Minnesota leans Democratic in the presidential column and the GOP's weak national standing could both harm Coleman's reelection chances.

But Charlie Cook says DFLer Al Franken has tremendous negatives.

El Tinklenberg may run for Congress again but he's not committing yet.

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