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Brett Neely

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In Minnesota

Republicans in the Minnesota Senate are filing a second ethics complaint against a DFL senator who was a board member of a controversial nonprofit. (MPR News)

House Speaker Kurt Daudt: Sunday liquor sales aren't dead yet. (MPR News)

The state pulled in $100 million more in taxes than expected in February and March. (AP via Pioneer Press)

The Republican Party of Minnesota has re-elected former state legislator Keith Downey as its chair. (MPR News)

The Minneapolis Urban League is under investigation for potentially double-dipping from state and local school funds for a program to prevent drop outs that hasn't shown strong results. (Star Tribune)

The PoliGraph attaches its wires to the State of the State speech to check out some of the claims Gov. Dayton made. (MPR News)

National Politics

Someone named Hillary Clinton is running for the Democratic presidential nomination. (Politico)

President Obama met with Cuban President Raul Castro during a summit in Panama over the weekend, the first time leaders of the two countries have met face to face in more than five decades. (New York Times)

Liberal donors are writing checks to build state-level organizations to counter recent Democratic losses there and to push a left-leaning political agenda. (USA Today)

Democratic members of Minnesota's congressional delegation say the Obama Administration has failed to penalize illegally underpriced imports of steel though they concede government efforts would not have halted the sharp fall in steel prices. (Star Tribune)

DFL Congressman Keith Ellison had an op-ed in the New York Times arguing the federal government shouldn't block remittances to Somalia. (New York Times)