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Catharine Richert

The Daily Digest (taxes, retirements, cave of bureaucracy)

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Minnesota:

Gov. Mark Dayton signed a tax cut bill. The bill includes the repeal of three business sales taxes passed last year. (MPR News)

You may want to wait a bit longer to file your taxes if you were counting on some of those cuts. (MPR News)

Rep. Kathy Brynaert, DFL-Mankato, plans to retire. (The Mankato Free Press)

PoliGraph says claims about the minimum wage are mostly true. (MPR News)

Dave Pinto, a Ramsey County prosecutor, bested five other DFLers to win the party endorsement to succeed state Rep. Michael Paymar, DFL-St. Paul. (MPR News)

Despite claims that a test for aspiring teachers isn't fair, attempts to abolish it have failed. (Star Tribune)

The DNR says a Minnesota brewery's use of water is threatening a nearby trout stream. (MPR News)

Washington:

The deadline to enroll in health insurance or face a penalty is nearing, but millions will be without coverage on April 1 nevertheless. (AP via MPR News)

Russia may be planning further aggression in Ukraine. (NPR via MPR News)

In a Pennsylvania mine, bureaucrats process government employee retirement papers by hand. "During the past 30 years, administrations have spent more than $100 million trying to automate the old-fashioned process in the mine and make it run at the speed of computers. They couldn’t." (The Washington Post)

As he gears up to run for re-election, super PACs for and against Sen. Al Franken have emerged recently. (MPR News)

National Republicans have launched an ad against Rep. Collin Peterson. (MPR News)

Rep. Keith Ellison was on This Week. (ABC News)

GOP Sen. Rand Paul's frantic schedule courting Republican donors hints at a presidential run. (The New York Times)