Clips from our 2010 Legislative Preview

Our guests were Minority Leader Kurt Zellers (R-Maple Grove) and Assistant Majority Leader Kate Knuth (D-New Brighton).

Clips from this week’s show:

Budget constraints delaying school aid (2:11)

Cuts to the General Assistance Medical Care program (3:39)

Prospects for a jobs bill (4:19)

The 2010 Bonding Bill (4:43)

The $1.2 Billion deficit (4:53)

Links for 2010 Legislative Preview

No one is expecting a good time.

It’s Pawlenty’s last chance to shape policy.

Bipartisanship looks dead-on-arrival.

A look at priorities, issue by issue.

Caucus turnout suggests mutual apathy on both sides of the aisle.

Are DFL rivals looking to buy the governor’s race?

Links for 'Earthquakes and Disaster Relief'

Earthquakes Don’t Kill People… Bad Buildings Do.

Another quake is more than likely.

Jets are scanning the fault lines.

Human activity may cause some quakes.

Haiti victims rewriting the rules of disaster survival time.

Duluth TV anchor Julie Pearce is quitting her day job to help.

Part 2 of Access Minnesota TV for January. Jim continues his chat with Professor Kathryn Pearson.

Part 1 of January’s Access Minnesota TV show. Jim speaks with University of Minnesota Political Science Professor Kathryn Pearson about this year’s mid-term elections and what we can expect to see in Minnesota during 2010.

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Sara Evans on the use and danger of anger in social movements.

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Kristen Ehresmann, on the chances of a 3rd H1N1 wave this spring.