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Touring Micron Metalworks in Ham Lake

Michele's Corner

Restoring the GOP The Hill newspaper's Congress Blog posed a question today to Capitol Hill's influential lawmakers, pundits and interest group leaders in their weekly "Big Question" feature: "What’s the next step for the GOP on the path back to electoral competitiveness?"

Government Takeover Grows Bigger and Bigger A front page story in Thursday's USA Today newspaper caught my attention. The article warns that the seemingly endless flow of bailout money flooding from the U.S. Treasury Department to Bear Stearns, AIG, the financial markets, etc., has put the federal share of the nation's economic activity close to $1 out of every $4, the highest level since World War II.