{"id":866,"date":"2005-06-09T20:51:36","date_gmt":"2005-06-09T20:51:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=866"},"modified":"2005-06-09T20:51:36","modified_gmt":"2005-06-09T20:51:36","slug":"minnesota_mirac","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=866","title":{"rendered":"Minnesota Miracle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Minnesota Legislature has been in special session for a couple weeks now, with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.startribune.com\/stories\/587\/5448788.html\">no sign yet of a budget compromise<\/a>.  If budget bills for things like human services and education aren&#8217;t passed by June 30, state government (including my agency) will partially shut down.  I&#8217;m not terribly worried about getting laid off or anything like that.  The Legislature will come to some sort of agreement, most likely just before midnight on July 1.  But I can&#8217;t quite see what a final agreement will look like.  The Republicans will not agree to anything that looks like a tax hike (the Governor&#8217;s proposed cigarette&#8230;fee&#8230;tax&#8230;.whatever&#8230;notwithstanding).  The Democrats will not go along with any deep cuts in public health care programs like MinnesotaCare.  I&#8217;m not sure how you bring together opposing sides that are staring each other down from across a $1 billion chasm.  The marginal numerical advantages that each party holds in the House and Senate means that any agreement must be bipartisan, which gives me some hope for a final resolution.<br \/>\nThe NY Daily News is extolling <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/front\/story\/317296p-271224c.html\">the virtues of geeks as boyfriends<\/a>.  :Slipping into my Barry White voice:  C&#8217;mon, baby, let&#8217;s turn down the lights real low and and I&#8217;ll whisper hot Klingon love in your ear.   <em>qamuSHa<\/em>&#8216; , baby.   <a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldpath.net\/~hiker\/iloveyou.html\">qamuSHa&#8217;<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Minnesota Legislature has been in special session for a couple weeks now, with no sign yet of a budget compromise. If budget bills for things like human services and education aren&#8217;t passed by June 30, state government (including my agency) will partially shut down. I&#8217;m not terribly worried about getting laid off or anything <a href='https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=866' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-1-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9Iwau-dY","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/866","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/866\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}