Star Tribune Candidates Series
- July 11, 2010 - Tom Horner: Targeting the middle ground - Third-party candidate seeks to attract support of centrist voters, Star Tribune.
- July 11, 2010 - Tom Emmer: Riding a new populist wave - His message about less government, more freedom is finding traction, Star Tribune.
- June 27, 2010 - Mark Dayton: A topsy-turvy ride for Dayton - Former U.S. Sen. Mark Dayton is looking for one more peak in his up-and-down political career, Star Tribune.
- June 20, 2010 - Margaret Anderson Kelliher: Banking on people power - Kelliher supports single-payer health care, more money for early childhood education and an overhaul of school funding, Star Tribune.
- June 14, 2010 - Matt Entenza: Waiting to ignite - His compelling personal story is helping to build his name brand in race for governor, Star Tribune.
August 23, 2010 - Horner outlines budget plan: Taxes, cuts, delays - Independence Party gubernatorial candidate Tom Horner has unveiled a financial blueprint to address Minnesota's $5.8 billion projected budget shortfall. Horner would continue to delay $1.8 billion in school funding until 2013. But he would create a state fund to cover school district interest expenses, Minnesota Public Radio.
August 19, 2010 - Belated factcheck: Yes, on a properly adjusted basis, education funding did decline during the Pawlenty years - In yesterday's post about Tuesday's MN Chamber of Commerce debate among the guv candidates, I noted a few factual assertions that I thought could benefit from some checking. I heard Dayton say that during the Pawlenty years (2003-2011), public school spending, had declined by $1,300 per pupil. I assumed, since Gov. Pawlenty has often claimed to have spared K-12 education from the budget-cutting knife, that this was a controversial assertion. Turns out, I was wrong and way behind, MinnPost.
July 29, 2010 - Mark Dayton says Gov. Tim Pawlenty cut education spending - Mark Dayton: "Tim Pawlenty has cut education funding in Minnesota. Classrooms are overcrowded. Districts have gone to four-day school weeks," PolitiFact.
July 26, 2010 - 3 DFL candidates with 3 school funding ideas - Improving education demands more money, Minnesota’s top three Democratic governor candidates say — a tough challenge when the next state budget could face a $6 billion deficit, Duluth News Tribune.
July 24, 2010 - School funding talk is starting to sound shifty - The 'delay/deferral/shift' feels like a cut. And getting it back won't exactly be an 'increase,' Star Tribune.
July 21, 2010 - Dayton education claim debatable - Mark Dayton's latest TV ad takes aim at Gov. Tim Pawlenty's education funding record, MPR Polinaut.
July 2, 2010 - DFL candidates for governor spar over deficit crisis in TV debate - The three DFL candidates for governor appeared in the first TV debate of the year last night and engaged in a few sharp exchanges over the state's budget crisis, Minnesota Public Radio.
July 1, 2010 - DFL gubernatorial candidates mix it up in TV debate - The DFL candidates for governor on Thursday came to their first televised debate ready to rumble, and rumble they did, Star Tribune.
June 23, 2010 - Endorsed candidates skip school, may flunk - Education in Minnesota makes up nearly half of the state budget. The achievement gap between whites and minorities is among the highest in the nation. Minnesota has one of the lowest rates of participation in early education programs. Colleges in Minnesota are more expensive than in neighboring states. Those are just a few reasons why education is perhaps the most compelling and confounding issue facing the candidates for governor. It challenges budgets, incites racial politics and inspires rhetoric over how we raise our children, Star Tribune.
June 23, 2010 - School tax question splits Minn. governor hopefuls - Minnesota's candidates for governor took different stands Tuesday on proposals granting school boards more power to raise property taxes without going to voters first, Star Tribune.
June 23, 2010 - Candidates for governor offer nuanced approaches to tackling Minnesota's education issues - The four gubernatorial candidates who participated in a forum this morning on the future of education in Minnesota have clearly spent some time considering what it will be like to exist between a rock and a hard place, MinnPost.
June 18, 2010 - Entenza rolls out education plans, without new money - Among his proposals, the DFL candidate would pull the state out of No Child Left Behind federal program, Star Tribune.
June 18, 2010 - Minnesota business groups blast DFL support of teachers union - Business-backed PACs hope to make lawmakers' union ties an election issue, Pioneer Press.
June 17, 2010 - Entenza unveils education plan in Minn. gov race - Democratic gubernatorial candidate Matt Entenza (en-TEN'-zah) says he wants to opt out of the federal No Child Left Behind law and put in place a single standard test for public school students, Star Tribune.
June 17, 2010 - IP candidate Hahn pitches riverboat gambling - Idea met with cautious reactions from mayors in some cities where he would consider putting boats, Star Tribune.
June 11, 2010 - The Strange World of Emmer Math - Gubernatorial candidate Tom Emmer made a shocking statement on Thursday’s Midmorning program on MPR: “Spending has almost doubled in the last decade in this state.” The statement is false. In order for something to double, it must grow by 100%. From FY 2000-01 to FY 2010-11, total state spending is projected to grow by 62.7%. (A more common measure of state spending—general fund spending—is projected to increase by 28.7% over this period.) By no stretch of the imagination can 62.7% be called “nearly 100%” and thus it is not “nearly double,” Minnesota 2020.
May 21, 2010 - Kelliher takes a calculated risk with choice of John Gunyou as running mate - The DFL brought out big names -- former Vice President Walter Mondale and former Minnesota Secretary of State Joan Growe -- for Margaret Anderson Kelliher's announcement of John Gunyou as her running mate, MinnPost.
May 17, 2010 - Reflections on legislative session from those who would be governor - Republican Rep. Tom Emmer, Democratic House Speaker Margaret Anderson Kelliher, Democrats Matt Entenza and Mark Dayton and Independence Party's Tom Horner, who want to be governor next year, Monday morning all weighed in on the budget deal and the session that was, Star Tribune.
