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Bakk puts foot down on soccer stadium
DFL Senate Majority Leader Tom Bakk is telling backers of a Major League Soccer franchise not to ask the Legislature for public money for a new stadium.
Dayton pushes railroad safety plan
DFL Gov. Mark Dayton says railroads need to pay a proportionate share of the cost of safety improvements along the congested tracks used by oil trains.