The Mankato Free Press editorial board doesn't like the Pawlenty administration's plan for devoting even more MNDOT dollars to the metro than to outstate Minnesota. The paper notes:
"Projects like the expansion of Highway 14 from North Mankato to New Ulm have been on MnDOT’s back burner for decades and yet people die every year on the dangerous and poorly designed highway. Under the proposed system, this project will be a loser again."
Go read the rest. The headnote on the editorial mentions a meeting tomorrow:
There will be a public meeting to discuss the MnDOT funding system 12:30 p.m. Monday at the Best Western in North Mankato.
Those who are able to fit this meeting into their schedules should attend and let the Pawlenty administration know what they think about this one.
A letter writer tells the Albert Lea Tribune Walz looking for energy options.
At the Winona Daily News' River Blogs, reporter Mark Sommerhauser asks, Davis delinquent on taxes - do voters care? Good question. If the tax tardiness was a single instance of character reckoning, who knows. However, when viewed along with Davis's "incomplete bookkeeping" during his stint as Olmsted County Republican RPM treasurer, his suspended driver's license when he neglected to pay a ticket for failure to register a vehicle, resume stretching, and the repeated use of discredited, dated and dubious talking points spoon fed by the NRCC, voters in the First may wonder what compelling reason there would be to vote for Davis.
Our friends at Mercury Rising look at Republican Tax Hypocrisy and Our New Rovalty. At the Olmsted County RPM site, the Republican county chair defends Davis's late payments by pointing to the extra funds the county received from the late payments. Have Republicans finally hit on a way to raise more revenue without having to actually raise taxes? Tax tardiness for the public good!
MnBlue notes Dept of Non-surprising news: MN-01 Republicans lying about their candidate.
Rochester independent moderate blogger Minnesota First looks to issues, rather than this character question in his most recent post, aptly titled Issues:
Because I have heard very little from the Davis campaign on anything other than gas prices and drilling for oil, I decided to explore his website a little to find out what he thinks about other issues. Apparently, not much.
Go read the rest at Minnesota First.
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