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• Minnesota state income tax
  The latest news on the war in Iraq from the BBC World Service. And, Gov. Tim Pawlenty is traveling to several cities in Minnesota Tuesday to press his budget plan. Senate DFLers Monday released their proposal to fix the projected $4.2-billion deficit. Their plan would raise about $1 billion from higher income and tobacco taxes. The DFL plan also would put more money into K-12 education, colleges, health care and local government than Pawlenty and the House would. In February Pawlenty released his proposal for solving the anticipated deficit without raising state taxes.April 8, 2003
• The "road-map" for Middle East peace
  The question of whether Saddam Hussein was dead or alive hung over the capital Tuesday after a U.S. warplane dropped four bunker-buster bombs and blasted a smoking crater 60 feet deep at a restaurant where he was believed to be meeting with his sons. The "road-map" for Middle East peace.April 8, 2003
• Democrats submit their budget proposal
  A look at the Democrats' budget-balancing proposal, released Monday. Republican lawmakers brought out their own budget proposals Thursday.April 7, 2003
• Rebuilding Iraq
  U.S. forces in tanks and armored vehicles stormed into the center of Baghdad on Monday, seizing one of Saddam Hussein's palaces in a bold daylight raid aimed at demonstrating the Americans can come and go as they please. How will the rebuilding of Iraq progress?April 7, 2003
• Iraq's shadow government is waiting to take over
  The Pentagon has suggested an international group of advisors start governing in Coalition-controlled southern areas before Saddam Hussein and his top advisors have been ousted in Baghdad.April 7, 2003
• NBC's David Bloom, Edina native, dies while covering war in Iraq
  Edina native and NBC News correspondent David Bloom, one of the network's most prominent young stars and a near constant television presence reporting from the Iraqi desert, died Sunday from an apparent blood clot, the network said.April 6, 2003
• Little Falls joins a big debate
  The people of Little Falls are up in arms over a French flag. It flies over Le Bourget Park, which is named after the Parisian suburb where native son Charles Lindbergh landed after his historic trans-Atlantic flight in 1927. Given French opposition to the war in Iraq, some residents say the flag should come down.April 4, 2003
• The long fight in Iraq
  U.S. troops found thousands of boxes of suspicious white powder, nerve agent antidote and Arabic documents on how to engage in chemical warfare south of Baghdad on Friday. But a senior U.S. official familiar with initial testing said the materials were believed to be explosives. A discussion about the fighting in Iraq and the possibility of a protracted, guerilla war.April 4, 2003
• Fighting in Afghanistan
  On Thursday U.S. warplanes launched heavy air strikes in support of hundreds of Afghan militiamen battling Taliban fighters in the southwest of the country, Afghan and U.S. officials said on Thursday. The U.S. military in Afghanistan said U.S. planes and helicopters had dropped a total of 35,000 pounds of ordnance on suspected Taliban positions in the Tor Ghar mountain area of Kandahar province, northeast of the town of Spin Boldak.April 4, 2003
• Budget issues in Minnesota
  Legislative leaders join Midday from the MPR's Capitol bureau to discuss the latest proposals to balance Minnesota's budget.April 3, 2003
• Coverage of the war in Iraq
  U.S. troops have advanced quickly to the doorstep of Baghdad, leaving their commanders with a tantalizing choice: Continue the charge into Saddam Hussein's capital or wait for reinforcements and give Iraqis a chance to overthrow the regime themselves. Live coverage of the war in Iraq.April 3, 2003
• Closer to ground combat
  With each war, women have expanded their official roles in the military. Now more women are as close as they've ever been to ground combat.April 3, 2003
• Allies' role in the rebuilding of Iraq
  U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell assures NATO allies and the European Union that they will be included in the reconstruction of postwar Iraq. Also live coverage of President George Bush's speech to the troops at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina.April 3, 2003
• Myers: U.S. will push toward Baghdad when ready
  Two Iraqi Republican Guard units are at less than half their original strength after days of air and ground attacks by coalition forces, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff said Tuesday. "We continue to work on them," said Air Force Gen. Richard Myers. He said Iraqi commanders have moved some troops around as reinforcements for the divisions that are the main force defending Baghdad. Live coverage of the war in Iraq.April 2, 2003
• Family of rescued soldier rejoices
  More than a week of worry over Army Pfc. Jessica Lynch quickly turned into a gleeful celebration with blaring sirens and fireworks as her family and friends rejoiced over her rescue in Iraq. Lynch's family was told at about 6 p.m. Tuesday that the 19-year-old supply clerk with the 507th Maintenance Company had been rescued from an Iraqi hospital.April 2, 2003

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