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The bill was amended only slightly during Thursday's proceedings.

The tax repeal package, and Lenczewski's dedication to moving it immediately, drew support from the committee's Republicans.

Last session, after the Legislature exempted city and county government from paying the state’s general sales tax on most purchases, the move was heralded as a long-overdue triumph of common sense. After all, what is the logic in the government taxing the government?

The board also discussed its thinking about hiring a full-time, permanent replacement for April Todd-Malmlov.

The 2014 legislative session could set the stage for a high-profile battle over how Minnesota picks its judges. A broad coalition is renewing a push to pass a ballot initiative that would move the state to a judicial retention election system.

Swanson’s opposition creates another political obstacle to the administration’s efforts to modify the terms of confinement for about 700 men.

Construction crews will begin taking up big sections of the lawn in the front the Capitol building, the Senate is searching for a swing space in 2014 and officials are preparing for the possibility that the chambers could be off-limits in 2015.

The consequences of raising the tax on a pack of cigarettes, as the Minnesota Legislature and Gov. Mark Dayton have now agreed to do, are no simple matter to sort out. This much is acknowledged by all.