The House speaker discussed legislative leaders’ ‘tense’ first
meeting with the governor on budget solutions, and also previewed next
week’s legislative activity.
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Published 3/27/2009
Archive for March, 2009
>Budget Tensions – Governor vs House
Posted in Budget-MN, MN Legislature, MN Politics, Politics on March 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
>Action! Help Needed with Red River Flood
Posted in Uncategorized on March 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
ACTION ALERT: Help Needed with Red River Flood
Minnesotans in the Red River Valley desperately need our help to protect their communities from flooding. Governor Pawlenty has formally declared a disaster in seven northwestern Minnesota counties and the time for us to act is now to help save homes and lives.
Go to the DFL website for [...]
Health Plan for All – Concerns it Raises
Posted in Health Care, Medicare, Obama Administration, Senior Living, Seniors on March 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
A Health Plan for all and the concerns it raises. By Reed Abelson, NY Times, Mar. 25. 2009
It is one of the most contentious health care proposals President Obama has floated: offer a federal, Medicare-like insurance plan to anyone, at any age. And let commercial insurers offer their private health plans alongside it.
“It gives consumers [...]
Info notice – Instant Runoff Voting
Posted in Events, MN Politics on March 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
“Adopt Instant Runoff Voting for state and local elections” is a DFL Action Agenda position click here to read.
Fair Vote Minnesota has put out a call for volunteers for March 21:
March 21 – Volunteer for the DFL City Convention
Start: Mar 21 2009 – 9:00am
End: Mar 21 2009 – 12:30pm
The Better Ballot Campaign will share Instant [...]
>More on the “Switch to Digital TV”
Posted in Senior Living, Seniors on March 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Back on Feb 10, we posted an item about the mandatory switch to digital TV being delayed until June 12 at the request of the Obama Administration. A couple of you had questions and one person commented that the post did not mention that viewers with a digital TV set hooked up to cable were [...]
