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In Minnesota
If you start building a new football stadium, will the Super Bowl come? Later this morning, Gov. Mark Dayton and business and community leaders will announce the state’s bid to bring the 2018 Super Bowl to Minnesota.
The start of the 2014 Legislative session is still a month away, but several Minnesota House committees are holding hearings this week. More than a dozen interim hearings are scheduled on bills related to bonding, election law, health care policy, housing and environmental issues. Lawmakers will hear public testimony, but they can’t take votes until after February 25, which is when the session gets underway. (MPR News)
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Gov. Dayton took responsibility for the failures of the MNsure rollout at a student forum at the University of Minnesota Duluth on Friday. Although Dayton defended the federal Affordable Care Act for extending insurance for young adults and to people with pre-existing conditions, he described the rollout of the $100 million state online insurance marketplace as "horrible" and said the buck stops with him. (MPR News)
Will Minnesota be the next state to legalize medical marijuana? (Star Tribune)
Ten rural Minnesota districts have cut one day a week out of their schedules to save money and other school district officials also say a four-day schedule works well for students and their communities. But Minnesota Department of Education officials would like to see the shortened weeks go the way of the one-room schoolhouse. (MPR News)
In Congress/National Politics
Aides to President Obama on Sunday offered a preview of the strategy of the president’s State of the Union address, emphasizing Mr. Obama’s willingness to bypass a gridlocked Congress to achieve his goals. (New York Times)
The U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee will hold a Feb. 4 hearing on preventing data breaches and combating cybercrime. Target Chief Financial Officer John Mulligan will appear before the committee, as will representatives of Consumers Union, the Federal Trade Commission, and the U.S. Secret Service and Department of Justice. (MPR News) The Strib has more on the story here. (Star Tribune)
In a first, working-age people now make up the majority in U.S. households that rely on food stamps — a switch from a few years ago, when children and the elderly were the main recipients. (AP via Star Tribune)
2nd District U.S. Rep. John Kline, a Republican, raised $450,000 in the last three months of 2013 and has $1.6 million in his campaign bank account. DFL challenger Mike Obermueller’s campaign raised $132,000 in the fourth quarter of 2013 from more than 1,800 donors and has $203,000 in the bank. (MPR News)
Upset over a proposal to roll back the Renewable Fuels Standard, 1st District Rep. Tim Walz and six of his Democratic colleagues are asking President Barack Obama for a meeting to discuss the issue. (Rochester Post-Bulletin)
The seven Democrats in Minnesota’s congressional delegation have asked the Obama Administration to reconsider a proposed rule that they say would lead to much lower levels of funding for MinnesotaCare, a state-subsidized health insurance program that is expected to cover 140,000 Minnesotans in 2014. (MPR News)
House and Senate negotiators believe they will finish work on the farm bill later today. (Politico)