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Good morning. It looks like 2015 will last a couple days longer than George Pataki's campaign for the Republican presidential nomination. At least that will make more room on the undercard debate stage. Let's take a look at some other items in the news.

1. The very wealthiest people in the country are giving lots of money to politicians to try to keep the amount they pay in taxes down. And it's working.  As this piece says they “literally pay millions of dollars for these services,” said Jeffrey A. Winters, a political scientist at Northwestern University who studies economic elites, “and save in the tens or hundreds of millions in taxes.” (New York Times)

2. A rising number of Minnesota's college students come from other countries. (MPR News)

3. Some new state laws take effect on Friday. (MPR News)

4. Also from the Times, a profile of the Itasca Project, the group of business leaders trying to solve problems in Minnesota. (New York Times)

5. Something very odd is expected to happen at the North Pole today. (The Atlantic)