Not-so-done deal ends shutdown view story
Monday, July 11, 2005 Conrad Defiebre, Patricia Lopez, Jean Hopfensperger, and Norman Draper - - Minneapolis Star Tribune
| With a $30.3 billion state budget agreement that helps schools, health care and transit at the expense of smokers, Gov. Tim Pawlenty and legislative leaders brought an end early Saturday to six months of partisan impasse and a historic eight-day partial government shutdown.
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