The House Jobs Task Force appointed last summer by Speaker and gubernatorial candidate Margaret Anderson Kelliher (DFL-Minneapolis) is meeting in all-day session today. This time around, the gavel is in the hands of Capital Investment Finance Division chair Alice Hausman (DFL-St. Paul; pictured above at right), one of the panel's three co-chairs.

Politics in Minnesota was at the Center for Changing Lives in Minneapolis this Saturday for the Minnesota DFL Veterans Caucus Governor Candidates Forum. David Brauer was the moderator for a spirited conversation between the candidates and members of the Veterans Caucus and other supporters. A few other legislators and other familiar faces were in the room, like Sens. Jim Carlson (DFL-Eagan) and Linda Berglin (DFL-Minneapolis), John Wodele, and Ember Reichgott-Junge. Herewith, some photos from the event:

Last week on the PIM site we discussed Rep. Joe Atkins' (DFL-Inver Grove Heights) efforts to investigate Google, Inc.'s Voice application—a free web app that connects one phone number to multiple phones. Atkins is indignant at Google's practice of not connecting calls to certain lines in rural Minnesota, and he has a new partner in the crusade: this week, Rep. Tom Rukavina (DFL-Virginia) wrote an op-ed decrying the "discrimination" against Greater Minnesotans.

The two-dozen plus candidates and potential candidates who want to move into Gov. Tim Pawlenty’s office when he vacates it in early 2011 are scrambling to assemble their staffs, and some of the names on their rosters are those of rising stars.

DFL and Republican state legislators on the House Higher Education and Workforce Development Finance and Policy committee this afternoon got a workout in political rhetoric ...

PIM had a chance to talk with the newest gubernatorial candidate in the DFL field, 12-term Iron Range Rep. Tom Rukavina (Virginia), by phone yesterday ...

Yesterday PIM caught up with Rep. Tom Rukavina (DFL-Virginia) (pictured), the chair of the House Higher Education and Workforce Development Finance and Policy Division, to ...

So far this week we’ve seen progress on legislation dealing with drugs and rock

As Gov. Tim Pawlenty vetoed the omnibus tax bill last week, he did so even though he’d publicly praised many of the bill’s provisions. The ...