Legislature
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Capitol Update for January 30, 2009
This week’s update from lobbyist John Tuma: “This place is now feeling the pressure of hard times… they have not found bottom yet, by considerable…they have recently voted to loan the credit…
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Capitol Update for January 23, 2009
This week’s update from lobbyist John Tuma: “I thought all he would be good for would be hauling a delivery wagon.”* – Dan Messner, the early 1900s Mr. Messner was the original…
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Capitol Update for January 16, 2009
This week’s update from lobbyist John Tuma: “Ya, and I used to be the Queen Elizabeth!” – A Montana shop clerk in the little hamlet of Elliston on the Continental Divide, July…
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Capitol Update for January 9, 2009
This week’s update from lobbyist John Tuma: “Favor comes because for a brief moment in the great space of human change and progress some general human purpose finds in him a satisfactory…
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Capitol Update for December 5, 2008
This week’s update from lobbyist John Tuma: “An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.” Alfred A. Knopf State Budget Forecast Predicts Largest Deficit in Modern…
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Capitol Update for May 30, 2008
This week’s update from lobbyist John Tuma: “Something happens to a man when he sits before a fire. Strange stirrings take place within him, and a light comes into his eyes which…
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Capitol Update for May 23, 2008
This week’s update from lobbyist John Tuma: “If all the good things I have ever done are remembered as long and as well as my scrap with Shields, it is plain, I…
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Capitol Update for May 16, 2008
This week’s update from lobbyist John Tuma: “Of a romantic and jovial disposition, he was not at all averse to playing the part assigned him in this little drama.” -Dr. William Folwell*…
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Capitol Update for May 9, 2008
This week’s update from lobbyist John Tuma: Judith Naughton Ireland … “a deeply religious woman, gentle, dedicated to her church and the care of her family.”* On Sunday May 11th, Minnesota will…
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Capitol Update for May 2, 2008
This week’s update from lobbyist John Tuma: “Aye, aye! It was that accursed white whale that razeed [sic] me; made a poor pegging lubber of me for ever and a day!… I’ll…