In the movie, "The Devil Wears Prada," Meryl Streep plays top fashion magazine editor Miranda Priestly (who is really cold perfectionist Anna Wintour, the former Vogue editor). There's a great scene where she appears with her personal assistant (Anne Hathaway) as the pair tour Paris in a chauffeured car with U2's "City of Blinding Light" blaring on the soundtrack.

As I reviewed DFL State Auditor Rebecca Otto's new "2006 Local Government Lobbying Services" report, that U2 tune came to mind about life at the Capitol in St. Paul. So many local units of government, so many lobbyists ... the city of blinding lobbyists.

By Sarah Janecek