Daily Digest: Back at it
Good morning, and welcome to a new work week after a long holiday weekend. Like me you may have been unplugged over the break, so let's take a look at a few items in the news you may have missed.
1. For the second year Minnesota has defied a national trend and provided more money for services and treatment for people with mental health problems. But one thing that didn't make it was money for an overhaul of the Minnesota Security Hospital in St. Peter. (Star Tribune)
2. One factor in Gov. Mark Dayton's decision on whether to call lawmakers back into special session is an $800,000 sales tax exemption no longer available to the Minnesota High School League. Without the tax break the league says it won't be able to give grants to low income student athletes to help them play sports. Dayton wants it back, and contends the exemption wasn't continued due to retaliation for the league adopting a policy regarding transgender athletes. Legislators deny that was the case. (Star Tribune)
3. Dayton's staff says he was ill yesterday, and he missed some Memorial Day events. But the governor said Friday he would spend the weekend going through the bills passed in the closing hours of the session, and decide whether to sign or veto them. (Pioneer Press)
4. If some of Hillary Clinton's attacks on Donald Trump sound familiar, they should. They're a lot like the tactics Barack Obama used against Mitt Romney. (Politico)
5. Could Clinton's biggest problem this year be that people don't think she's capable of changing the course of the country? With voters apparently dissatisfied with the way things are going, many of her allies think it's not enough to be anti-Trump. (Washington Post)
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