Modern Life in Northern Minnesota
The legislature’s public forum tour will pass through the Iron Range this Friday. Topic #1: the crippling state budget and finding solutions that might be tenable. There’s a stop in Virginia and another in Grand Rapids.
UPDATE: The Grand Rapids stop will be March 7.
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For a “quick take” on what it will take to fix the state budget, check out the State Budget Trends Study Commission Report, and read the Feb 5 Star Tribune article by Jay Kiedrowski, at
http://www.mmb.state.mn.us/doc/budget/trends/report-09.pdf
and
http://www.startribune.com/opinion/commentary/39173192.html
You might also be interested in reviewing the Governor’s 21st Century Tax Reform Commission report released last Friday at
http://www.taxes.state.mn.us/mntaxreform/reports/TRC_report_2009.pdf