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The Daily Digest: Sunday liquor sales get another push

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In Minnesota

Minnesota lawmakers have begun their recurring push to allow liquor stores to open on Sundays. (MPR News)

Minnesota lawmakers are restarting a two-year-long push to set rules for how law enforcement agencies use automated license plate readers. (AP via Pioneer Press)

There will be no delay in the remodeling of the state Capitol after the House, Senate and governor announced an agreement on how to allocate space in the building. (MPR News)

A state-led effort to fix a deteriorating Native American school could undermine efforts by federal lawmakers to secure more federal funding. (Star Tribune)

More than 1,000 anti-abortion demonstrators gathered at the state Capitol to demand an end to government-funded abortions. (MPR News)

National Politics

Minnesota Congressman John Kline is a central player in the Republican push to replace the No Child Left Behind law this year. (MPR News)

The largest gathering of potential Republican presidential candidates so far will descend on Iowa on Saturday to test their messages at a forum shaping up as the informal starting gun for the 2016 campaign. (New York Times)

The collapse of an abortion bill in the U.S. House shows that Speaker John Boehner has a new balancing act: Handling the moderate backbencher resurgence. (Politico)

The Senate is about to reach a milestone: By the end of this week, it will have held more amendment votes than it did in all of 2014. (Politico)