Pam Wheelock
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- Opening day of the 2008 legislative session, MPR talks with legislators about different issues (Hour 1 of 2)
Midday broadcasts live from the Capitol on the opening day of the Minnesota Legislature's 2008 session, featuring interviews with key lawmakers and legislative leaders.
- Opening day of the 2008 legislative session, MPR talks with legislators about different issues (Hour 2 of 2)
Midday broadcasts live from the Capitol on the opening day of the Minnesota Legislature's 2008 session, featuring interviews with key lawmakers and legislative leaders.
- Goodbye Jesse: The political legacy of Jesse Ventura
MPR’s Laura McCallum examines Governor Jesse Ventura’s legacy, taking a look at taxes, state budget, education, light rail, deficit, and judiciary.
- Governor Ventura unveils his budget plans to close a 1.95 billion dollar budget gap
MPR’s Laura McCallum reports on comments from Ventura's finance commissioner, Pam Wheelock, who says the budget plan will include a combination of spending cuts, tax increases and dipping into the state's budget reserves. She says resolving a deficit of this magnitude will be painful.
- Twins President tells task force a stadium could keep Twins alive
Could a new stadium keep the Minnesota Twins up and running? The team is being threatened with shut down because of low salaries and low rankings…but local political and business efforts in creating a task force to look at options for new stadium in state are providing hope that there is still a chance to avoid losing professional baseball in Minnesota.
- Legislature dismisses Governor's plan to extend sales tax to pay for services
MPR’s Laura McCallum reports that while it is too soon to tell if extending taxes to services will be a major component to Ventura's financial recommendations, he may revive his plan. The response to the idea from Legislature has not been favorable and they are being vocal about it.
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