Gov Dayton Answers Questions About Budget

By: Bill Sorem | June 15, 2011

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Minnesota Governor Mark Dayton holds press conference today at 4:30 p.m. in the Governor’s Reception Room at the State Capitol. Earlier today, the GOP leadership responded to Dayton’s government shutdown plans.

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Bill Sorem

Bill Sorem is a longtime advertising professional who started with Campbell Mithun and ended up with his own agency. After a tour as a sailing fleet manager in the Virgin Islands he turned to database programming as an independent consultant. He has written sailing guides for the British Virgin Islands and Belize, and written for a number of blogs. In 2010, he volunteered as a citizen journalist with The UpTake and has stayed on as a video reporter.

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