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• As deal on health bill nears, Democrats brace for loss of some abortion opponents (Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune)

  I may be talking about abortion rights in more terse ways on this forum.... It doesn't necessarily mean I like abortion. I'm saying it's ridiculous that this will be the ultimate reason why health care reform is … read more derailed.

• CEO pay watch: William Cooper, TCF Financial Corp. (Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune)

  Believes to be soooo downtrodden, sooo beleaguered, to be suffering sooo sorely that he and all those like him must be protected, at all … read more costs, from having their taxes returned back to the level they were prior to the Moe/Swiggum/Ventura tax cut compromise, enacted back when the state led the upper midwest in every measure of quality of life, employment and prosperity.

• Quinn urges Ill. lawmakers to approve smaller tax hike devoted to education (Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune)

  SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - Calling himself a realist, Gov. Pat Quinn on Wednesday scaled back his proposal to raise income taxes, shifting to a call for an increase of just one percentage point to be used solely for preventing deep cuts to education.

• Religion News in Brief (Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune)

  AMSTERDAM - A campaign to give elderly Netherlands residents the right to assisted suicide has gathered more than 100,000 signatures, enough to force a parliamentary debate on the matter.

• Air-pollution alert canceled across much of Minnesota (Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune)

  An air-quality alert that had been issued for the Twin Cities and Rochester was canceled Tuesday after quickening wind and reduced fog decreased air pollution.