Business Wire (Free subscription) | 02/12/2008
MINNEAPOLIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Governor Tim Pawlenty has issued a State of Minnesota Proclamation designating December 8-12, 2008, as Life Science Week. The proclamation has been issued to showcase Minnesota as a
JoHNBRoDiGaNDoTCoM (Free subscription) | 03/12/2008
First he gets passed over as Vice President for Sarah Palin. Then every time he goes to the different governors meetings , all anyone wants to ask him aboot is Sarah Palin . Finally, his state is less then two hundred stolen votes away from electing Al Franken to the U.S. Senate. Sometimes it sucks to be Tim Pawlenty. The forty-eight year old Governor of Minnesota is rumored to be considering...
StarTribune.com (Free subscription) | 03/12/2008
Gov. Tim Pawlenty warned today that he expects a deficit in Minnesota's current state budget — not as big as the shortfall anticipated for the upcoming budget but enough to require cuts in the coming weeks.
Pushing Rope (Free subscription) | 11 hours ago
The Wall Street Journal shows states with surpluses in green and deficits in red. No data is available for the states in white. The majority of states will have trouble funding schools, law enforcement and infrastructure projects. Minnesota Governor and 2012 presidential contender Tim Pawlenty went to the recent meeting Barack Obama had with governors. Pawlenty disparingly remarked on...
Lake Minnetonka Liberty (Free subscription) | yesterday
I have long said that moderates have been the downfall of the GOP . Nothing but little Democrat-lites wearing daddy's suit of clothes. Moderates have driven the party to the left and away from our roots and core principals. One needs to merely look at John McCain and Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty to see that. An unhappy base, means lost elections. The base isn't thrilled with moderates. Saxby...
Online Learning Update (Free subscription) | yesterday
Gov. Tim Pawlenty's goal to have more students earning credits online over the next several years could mean a bump in enrollment for Riverland Community College, which is facing its first decline in more than two years. Pawlenty last week announced a goal to have 25 percent of all MnSCU credits earned through online courses by 2015. The online learning initiative, formed with MnSCU,...
Pushing Rope (Free subscription) | 03/12/2008
Fiscal conservatism goes out the window. Republican Governors are holding out their tin cups . Republican governors told Mr. Obama they had qualms about what they called indiscriminate federal spending. "Every dollar they send to us is money they don't have," Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty said. "Meantime, that bill is being sent to our children and grandchildren." But when the governors were asked...
News from www.lacrossetribune.com (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
... That includes a projected $426 million shortfall in the current 2009 fiscal year, which means Gov. Tim Pawlenty could unallot state-aid payments scheduled to reach Minnesota cities and counties in the next month. And when the 2009 legislative session begins in January, lawmakers predict huge cuts that could affect Winona city and county, Winona State University, local universities and public...
Beyond Meds (Free subscription) | 7 hours ago
... peacefully but strongly!Let this become a top issue in the Governor’s office.Telephone Governor Pawlenty’s office *NOW*:Call any day, but especially call *before* Ray’s scheduled electroshock next Wednesday, 10 December 2008.Call from anywhere in the world phone (651) 296-3391.From inside Minnesota phone toll free (800) 657-3717.You have the best chance of reaching staff from 8:00 am to...
The Fruit Fly (Free subscription) | 03/12/2008
Liberal Media Kevin Diaz, of the Minneapolis Star Tribune, has a column published in today’s press entitled “Pawlenty cool to stiumulus proposals.” Diaz, apparently the Scoop Sleuth of “liberal media” here in Minnesota, was sent to Washington DC to the recent Governors Conference and the best he could do was to write about Pawlenty’s skepticism [...]
JoHNBRoDiGaNDoTCoM (Free subscription) | 12 hours ago
... a speech someone wrote for her, I kinda got the feeling that wouldn’t have been a critique if Tim Pawlenty was chosen for V.P….when he would have been reading the exact same speech for the most part. I’ve also yet to see a story aboot BAM’s $1,500 suits, or the $200K spent on Greek columns for his acceptance speech. UPDATE: Ed Rendell…::rolls eyes::
kare11.com - Business News (Free subscription) | yesterday
... slowdown and the revenues coming into government are going through a historic slowdown," Gov. Tim Pawlenty said this week. Minnesota's worst deficits came in 2003 and the early 1980s, according to Minnesota Management and Budget. The $4.2 billion shortfall in the 2004-05 budget accounted for 13.6 percent of the state's general fund -- a proportion that could be rivaled by Thursday's anticipated...
Political Animal (Free subscription) | 03/12/2008
... what happens if the race is unresolved when Congress convenes in January? Republican Gov. Tim Pawlenty will have to appoint a temporary senator to serve until someone wins the Coleman/Franken contest. 4:00 PM
Bradenton.com: Politics (Free subscription) | 03/12/2008
... there is no winner declared by the time the new Congress convenes in January, Republican Gov. Tim Pawlenty will appoint a temporary senator.If the Senate intervenes, as Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., now suggests it might, it wouldn't be unprecedented. The closest election in Senate history ended in 1975: After spending six weeks debating the contest between Republican Louis Wyman and...
Star Tribune (Free subscription) | 02/12/2008
Gov. Tim Pawlenty has announced that Lac Qui Parle, Big Stone, Chippewa, Swift and Yellow Medicine counties have been designated agricultural disaster areas by U.S. Agriculture Secretary Ed Schafer.
