Star Tribune Sat, 10 May 2008 21:39:54 GMT
Lori Sturdevant: Citizens, officials: Can you still dance together?
Better connections between people and government could help get us back in the groove. Minnesota turns 150 today with its buttons popping -- and not just from too much birthday cake. Pride runs deep here. It's something this native South Dakotan sensed in even her earliest forays east. There's more to it than pride of place. We had that back home. It's also pride in the government and public institutions that pioneers started and citizens shaped through the generations. It's the belief that Minnesota government has been more honest, innovative and enlightened than most, and that the quality of life here is better for it. History provides abundant support for that notion. But years of covering a gridlock-prone state government and problems that don't get solved have given me evidence to the contrary, too. Too often in recent years, government has seemed stuck.
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