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Last Updated on Friday, 9 January 2009 12:50 Written by rslcpol Friday, 9 January 2009 12:50
From the Echo Press:
ST. PAUL – The smiles and “Happy New Year” salutations of Tuesday’s Minnesota legislative session opening day soon will turn into serious faces and money talk as legislators begin grappling with a $4.85 billion deficit.
But legislators say the opening-day hugs will not turn into partisan stare-downs as has happened in the past.
About the only thing on legislators’ minds as they began their 2009 session was the budget deficit, a record-large one coming six years after the solution to another deficit took many of the easy solutions.
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