Minnesota’s uninspiring budget agreement
Doug Grow of the MinnPost reports on Democratic Governor Mark Dayton’s signing of a budget bill that ends Minnesota’s state government shutdown and the stalemate between Dayton and a GOP legislature. It would be nice to write something like “federal deficit reduction negotiators could learn a thing or two about the tough budget choices made by Minnesotans,” but neither Dayton nor the legislature distinguished themselves. In order to balance the budget, reports the New York Times’ Monica Davey, “The state will delay payments to local school districts and borrow money against expected payments from the tobacco industry.”