It’s not exactly common to see brand-new House members meeting directly with the president to negotiate over a crisis, or storming into the Majority Leader’s office to remind him he “works for the American people,” not the president.
Beyond paying for social programs with state dollars for now, the governor and his administration is relegated to keeping an eye on things — and to being the sympathizer in chief.
Shutdown fight continues; Trump’s Russia ties; AG nominee; and more.
Eric Black Ink
“What the hell happened to Lindsey Graham?” is the very good headline on a very good BuzzFeed piece on a question that I’ve wondered about myself.
Metro
The lack of criticism of St. Paul’s plan is a dramatic departure from the long, heated debate among Minneapolis residents over its 2040 comprehensive plan.
National
Wait times for hearings were already around three years.
State Government
The chair of the Minnesota Indian Gaming Association has made it clear to legislative leaders that the state’s casino-owning tribes aren’t interested in adding sports betting to their offerings.
Eric Black Ink
Gallup’s new report began with the news that respondents are more divided along partisan lines on the question of Donald Trump approval than on any previous president.
Inside MinnPost
As our D.C.-based correspondent, your primary responsibility will be to keep tabs on Minnesota’s 10-member congressional delegation while assessing the impact of administration and congressional action on Minnesota.
Eric Black Ink
“That’s stupid,” President Vladimir Putin’s foreign policy aide, Yuri Ushakov, told reporters in Moscow on Wednesday.
State Government
Research shows that calls made while holding a cellphone are not, in fact, significantly safer than calls made with hands-free systems.
Good Jobs
A bipartisan group of lawmakers is pushing to allocate $70 million for internet projects. But even that funding would only go so far toward the state’s ultimate goal — to bring much faster universal internet to everyone in Minnesota by 2016.
Eric Black Ink
Sometimes the conservative columnist hits him harder than the lefties do, as in Tuesday’s column, headlined: “Trump’s pitiful powerlessness.”
