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Swan Lake fisherman recovery intensifies

A recovery team is attempting to set up camp near Swan Lake in the boundary waters today after being foiled by bad weather Wednesday. The group will attempt to recover the body of Ty Sitter who was last seen a week ago by his father and brother as he left to go fish the lake. Sitter's body is believed to be 90-100 feet of water.

The remoteness of the lake, in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness, makes the recovery difficult as crews can only bring in equipment that can be carried by a float plane.

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4,800 at risk of not graduating

Reading and writing tests required by the state have not been passed by many high school seniors (Star Tribune).

Ellison blasts second King hearing on radical Islam

U.S. Rep. Keith Ellison, the star witness in opposition to a congressional hearing on radical Islam in March, spoke out again on Wednesday against a follow-up hearing on Muslim radicalization in U.S. prisons (Star Tribune).

Tarryl Clark will stay in 8th Congressional District race

The prospect of Rep. Michele Bachmann running for president instead of re-election to Congress in Minnesota's 6th District isn't enough to get Tarryl Clark to reconsider her move into the 8th District (Duluth News Tribune).

'Wimp factor' could pose threat to Pawlenty

Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney and former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty are the putative front-runners among the declared 2012 candidates. They both have many attributes. But neither man is liable to be confused with John Wayne (The Hill).

American Crystal property dispute settled

Settling a long-standing dispute that put hundreds of thousands of annual tax dollars on the line, a deal has been reached on the value of American Crystal Sugar property in Clay County (Fargo-Moorhead Forum).

3 businesses win contest to fill downtown Duluth Downtown

Duluth will get a new women's clothing store, a baby store and a glass art gallery, all winners of the Greater Downtown Council contest to fill empty Superior Street storefronts (Duluth News Tribune).

Opinion

Compromise on budget and avoid economic havoc for families

We expect legislators and the governor to do their jobs. Find the compromise. Find it soon. This kind of brinksmanship that plays with the emotional and economic lives of thousands of people is unconscionable and a colossal waste of time and resources (Rochester Post Bulletin).

Debate

The Insight Now Debates will move from online to on-the-air. On Friday at 11 a.m. we continue this fundamental discussion on the role of government during the"Midday" program on MPR News:

Peter Nelson, policy fellow for the Center of the American Experiment and Dane Smith, president of Growth and Justice will both be on Midday. But this is also your time to join in the discussion. You have a few ways to do this:

1)Continue participating in our online debate thread. I will also be on Midday to relate some of the written comments that have come in.

2) Listen to the Midday program during the 11 a.m. hour and call in.

Today you can read the closing statements by our two debaters.

Then comment on the question at hand. We'll "see" you on the radio, Friday at 11 a.m.

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