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Short, late newsletter today!
Sen. Paul Gazelka will step down as Senate majority leader if he runs for governor. [ Read more from the Minnesota Reformer's Ricardo Lopez]
Minnesota is considering updating its environmental review process to consider climate impacts, a change championed by climate activists but opposed by interests who say it will add extra hurdles to new construction projects. [Read more from Kirsti Marohn]
Bloomington, Minn., is the U.S.'s nominee as the host for the 2027 World's Fair. [ Read more from the Star Tribune's Briana Bierschbach]
Gov. Tim Walz is offering $100 incentives for Minnesotans who get the COVID-19 vaccine, a move following a proposal by President Joe Biden. [Read more from The Associated Press and Brian Bakst]
Friday is Sunisa Lee Day in Minnesota, in honor of the Minnesota gymnast's Olympic gold medal. [ Read the proclamation]
Sen. Amy Klobuchar says she's close to a deal with moderate Democrat Joe Manchin over a new voting rights bill, including anti-gerrymandering provisions and automatic voter registration. The deal-in-progress is apparently addressing how to get the bill passed over a likely Republican filibuster. [Read more from The Guardian's Sam Levine]
Rep. Ilhan Omar was part of an odd coalition of left-wing Democrats and right-wing Republicans to dissent from a bill funding the Capitol police and Afghan resettlement. [Read more]
Something completely different: Last night I finished Umberto Eco's 1988 novel "Foucault's Pendulum," a blend of conspiracy thriller and hyper-intellectual exploration of epistemology, free will and the dangers of the paranoid style. Reading it, I couldn't help but imagine future "Da Vinci Code" author Dan Brown finishing "Foucault's Pendulum" and exclaiming, "This was a best seller? Imagine what I could do if I strip out the literary irony and make it accessible to people without liberal arts degrees." Recommended if you're the sort of person who appreciates your thrillers leavened with very generous doses of metatextual analysis.
Listen: With the Olympics underway, this is as good a time as any to revisit John Williams' 1996 Olympic fanfare, "Summon the Heroes." [Listen] | |
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