Text of Pawlenty’s State of State address

The prepared text for Gov. Tim Pawlenty’s State of the State speech Wednesday, as provided by the governor’s office:
More than 80 years ago, a young man from Central Minnesota made an historic journey, alone, in an airplane across the Atlantic.
When Charles Lindbergh emerged from the plane, he said just what you might expect a Minnesotan […]

Second Justice inquiry of waterboarding revealed revauthorization

An internal watchdog office at the Justice Department is investigating whether Bush administration attorneys violated professional standards by issuing legal opinions that authorized the CIA to use waterboarding and other harsh interrogation techniques, officials disclosed Friday.
H. Marshall Jarrett, counsel for the Office of Professional Responsibility, wrote in a letter to Democratic lawmakers that his office […]

Is it time to overhaul driver’s ed in Minnesota?

Joe Totten, 15, is carefully negotiating the one-way streets of downtown St. Paul with John Kunz, a longtime driver’s education teacher at Highland Park High School.
Joe is one of more than 40 teenagers in the after-school class, checking off his 10 video-heavy classroom sessions and his three two-hour behind-the-wheel lessons before going for his license […]

Text of Pawlenty’s State of State address

The prepared text for Gov. Tim Pawlenty’s State of the State speech Wednesday, as provided by the governor’s office:
More than 80 years ago, a young man from Central Minnesota made an historic journey, alone, in an airplane across the Atlantic.
When Charles Lindbergh emerged from the plane, he said just what you might expect a Minnesotan […]

Usual Suspects Show Up On Cue to Challenge Fed: Caroline Baum

There comes a time in every business
cycle when things look glum and the future even glummer.
The Federal Reserve, usually slow to realize all is not
well, starts cutting short-term interest rates aggressively. The
real-time economic data offer no sign the medicine is working.
Like clockwork, […]

Is it time to overhaul driver’s ed in Minnesota?

Joe Totten, 15, is carefully negotiating the one-way streets of downtown St. Paul with John Kunz, a longtime driver’s education teacher at Highland Park High School.
Joe is one of more than 40 teenagers in the after-school class, checking off his 10 video-heavy classroom sessions and his three two-hour behind-the-wheel lessons before going for his license […]

Usual Suspects Show Up On Cue to Challenge Fed: Caroline Baum

There comes a time in every business
cycle when things look glum and the future even glummer.
The Federal Reserve, usually slow to realize all is not
well, starts cutting short-term interest rates aggressively. The
real-time economic data offer no sign the medicine is working.
Like clockwork, […]

Text of Pawlenty’s State of State address

The prepared text for Gov. Tim Pawlenty’s State of the State speech Wednesday, as provided by the governor’s office:
More than 80 years ago, a young man from Central Minnesota made an historic journey, alone, in an airplane across the Atlantic.
When Charles Lindbergh emerged from the plane, he said just what you might expect a Minnesotan […]

Report spooks stock market

WASHINGTON - Stocks fell sharply Tuesday amid new economic data that left Wall Street ever more convinced that the U.S. economy might already be in recession.
The three major stock indexes all closed down about 3 percent after an Institute of Supply Management report showed a much-weaker-than-expected reading of the all-important services sector.
The report also showed […]

Text of Pawlenty’s State of State address

The prepared text for Gov. Tim Pawlenty’s State of the State speech Wednesday, as provided by the governor’s office:
More than 80 years ago, a young man from Central Minnesota made an historic journey, alone, in an airplane across the Atlantic.
When Charles Lindbergh emerged from the plane, he said just what you might expect a Minnesotan […]