Good morning. It’s the income tax filing deadline, so take care of that business.

Expect a spectacle in New York as the first former president to face criminal charges goes on trial. This one is in the hush-money case stemming from Donald Trump’s 2016 run, but one of them he’s using to rally support in his 2024 campaign. Here are some quick facts on the case. The presumptive Republican nominee has tried to delay the trial and argued he’s being tried for political reasons. He railed against the judge and prosecutors at a weekend campaign event.

At some point, this unusual presidential campaign will resemble a campaign with conventions, rallies and so forth. But will there be debates between Republican Donald Trump and Democrat Joe Biden? Major media organizations urged the likely nominees to agree to a slate of head-to-head debates. Trump’s camp says he’s willing to debate “anytime, any place and anywhere.” Biden’s team has said it’s a matter of conduct of the debates and of facing off on stage with Trump, “it depends on his behavior.”

There is no shortage of debates at the Minnesota Capitol these days. And as our Dana Ferguson reports, it’s another deadline week. That is one of the winnowing stages for the Legislature’s work list. Some items might fall off the map this week, although there are always workarounds. Find Dana’s story here.

We talked about education issues on Politics Friday with Sens. Mary Kunesh and Zach Duckworth.  It was a good discussion that spanned money and policy for schools. If you missed it, here is a link to the show.

You probably saw the coverage a couple of weeks back about a dip in Minnesota’s graduation rate. Well, there’s more to the story : MPR’s Elizabeth Shockman and the APM Research Lab’s Elisabeth Gawstrop and Craig Helmstetter report the rate actually rose. They point to data problems tied to earlier district errors and note that state education officials don’t correct their report as a matter of practice once it is released. The bottom line is the rate has remained relatively stable and it would take a major change for it to move substantially up or substantially down.

By this time next year, state officials expect Minnesota’s retail cannabis market to be up and running. But will there be adequate supply? The Star Tribune’s Ryan Faircloth and Brooks Johnson say that will depend on how fast cultivation licenses are granted and plants get in the ground. There are doubters out there. The supply, naturally, will affect the prices so it’s an important consideration for when the Office of Cannabis Management gives the go ahead for stores to open.

Minnesota lawmakers could let select cities ease into a traffic enforcement system allowing cameras to capture speeders and intersection signal ignorers. WCCO TV’s Caroline Cummings reports on a proposed four-year pilot project to allow traffic enforcement cameras near schools and on high-traffic routes. Violations could carry fines starting at $40 but those could double if drivers are going 20 miles per hour above the limit. Only a handful of cities would be selected, along with Minneapolis. There were red-light violation cameras up in Minneapolis more than a decade ago before the state Supreme Court ruled they shouldn’t be.

Speaking of cameras, some Republicans want to put them near the State Office Building construction site. As part of the GOP’s continuing effort to highlight the steep cost and a renovation project scope they find excessive, they want to install a “Palace Cam” similar to the DNR’s Eagle Cams so people can watch the project in action (and politicians using it in the campaign will have good, ongoing footage). MinnPost’s Peter Callaghan references the yet-authorized footage plan as part of a story that is about progress of the project. Peter gets deeper into the artifact find — which Dana touched on last week — as part of the excavation to make way for a new wing.