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Minnesota Deficit

NPR

Published February 5, 2003 at 12:00 AM EST

Laura McCallum of Minnesota Public Radio reports on the efforts of Minnesota's new governor, Tim Pawlenty, to drastically cut the state's spending in order to adhere to his "no-tax increase" campaign pledge last November.

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