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Balancing the budget: Options for cutting spending | MNpublius.com

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MinnPost - Outstate Minnesota cities fear LGA cuts, too

LGA payments to Greater Minnesota cities have fallen by 37.5 percent in real dollars since 2002, according to a report from the progressive think tank Minnesota 2020. This year, LGA will likely take another hit.

The results of LGA cuts, advocates and city administrators say, would be either increased property taxes or reduced services.

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MinnPost - Outstate Minnesota cities fear LGA cuts, too

St. Paul Mayor Chris Coleman has been an outspoken critic of proposed cuts to Local Government Aid, but outstate cities, too, would suffer from cuts, says the Mesabi Daily News.

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MPR: Polinaut: Pawlenty proposes state workers take unpaid leave

MPR's Tim Pugmire reports that the Pawlenty Administration is requesting that state employees take 48 days of unpaid leave over the next two years.

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Minnesota 2020 study: LGA cuts hurt quality of life in Minnesota cities |  Bemidji Pioneer  | Bemidji, Minnesota

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Faces, Not Numbers: Thoughts about Governor Pawlenty's Healthcare Cuts

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Pawlenty's payment-in-lieu-of-taxes proposal would leave county $320,000 short

Proposed cuts to a state program that aids counties with large amounts of public lands may leave Beltrami County coffers $320,000 short.

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Pawlenty Balances the Budget on the Backs of Public Employees

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Hindsight - From Minnesota 2020 » Blog Archive » Governor’s College Cuts in Perspective

Governor Pawlenty’s higher education budget recommendations propose cutting $146 million for Minnesota State Colleges & universities (MnSCU) and $151 million from the University of Minnesota (the Governor’s alma mater).

Continued cuts to Minnesota’s higher ed. institutions, the state’s economic engine, have forced tuition to go up exponentially. As tuition rises, the promise of a college education dwindles for many Minnesota students.

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Hindsight - From Minnesota 2020 » Blog Archive » Fight Against LGA Cuts Gets Personal on Facebook

As we’ve blogged here before, cuts to local government aid (LGA) hurt Minnesota’s communities. Those same cuts threaten to close the 79 year old Hamline-Midway Library in Saint Paul.

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