DON DAVIS
Davis: Health care dispute still far from over 
ST. PAUL – The Minnesota House minority leader declared that the U.S. Supreme Court settled “once and for all” the federal health care law dispute.
By Don Davis, Forum News Service , June 30, 2012
Pawlenty near top of list for vice president, but ...
St. Paul - More and more discussion centers on Tim Pawlenty becoming Mitt Romney’s running mate, but at the same time, Ron Paul supporters are considering derailing traditional Republicans like the former Minnesota governor.
By Don Davis, Forum News Service , June 23, 2012
Minnesota Political Notebook: DFL chairman seeks move toward political center
ST. PAUL - Political observers have watched for years as those who make decisions in the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party move to the political left and Republican decision-makers head to the right.
By Don Davis, Forum News Service , May 26, 2012
Minnesota Political Notebook: New purple politicos learn legislative lessons
ST. PAUL - It was easy to tell Capitol regulars from those who do not hang out under the marble dome so much as the 2012 legislative session came to an end: One group wore purple paint and jerseys.
By Don Davis, Forum News Service , May 19, 2012
Minnesota Political Notebook: Capitol quiet after stadium debate dominated
ST. PAUL - The Capitol is quiet after days of chants, cheers and songs like “Skol, Vikings.”
By Don Davis, Forum News Service , May 12, 2012
Minnesota Political Notebook: Dean plan a diversion on the way to a stadium vote
ST. PAUL - The Dean plan will be an asterisk in the Great Stadium Debate of 2012, but it provided an interesting diversion while Minnesotans awaited a legislative vote about a new Vikings stadium.
By Don Davis, Forum News Service , May 05, 2012
Minnesota Political Notebook: Legislature is land of undead bills
St. Paul - The Vikings stadium saga illustrates tricks legislators use to turn their dreams into state law.
By Don Davis, Forum News Service , April 28, 2012
Minnesota Political Notebook: Zellers calls Dayton letter ‘snarky’
ST. PAUL - The end of the 2012 Minnesota Legislature approaches amid strong partisan disagreements.
By Don Davis, Forum News Service , April 15, 2012
Minnesota Political Notebook: American Indian leader opposes wolf hunting season
ST. PAUL - A Mississippi American Indian leader objects to a wolf hunting season that appears near passage in the Minnesota Legislature. She joins several Great Lakes area tribes in opposing wolf hunting and trapping proposals.
By Don Davis, Forum News Service , April 08, 2012
Minnesota Political Notebook: Pre-Easter Legislature adjournment looks less likely
ST. PAUL - Many people under the Capitol dome say it feels like the Legislature is in its final days, but more and more it looks like lawmakers will take a break and return April 16 to wrap up work.
By Don Davis, Forum News Service , April 01, 2012
Minnesota Political Notebook: White Earth plan little heard, but still around
ST. PAUL - Minnesota legislators talk little about a White Earth Band casino proposal to increase state revenue, but the band leader says she will continue to push it as lawmakers struggle to find money for everything from a stadium to schools.
By Don Davis, Forum News Service , March 24, 2012
Minnesota Political Notebook: Full house expected for right-to-work debate
ST. PAUL - If there ever was a full committee room, it will happen at 8 a.m. Monday in Room 15 of the Capitol when the Senate Judiciary Committee hears a proposed constitutional amendment that would remove a requirement that some workers belong to unions.
By Don Davis, Forum News Service , March 10, 2012
Minnesota Political Notebook: ‘Iowan’ Bachmann doesn’t think comments will hurt in Minnesota
ST. PAUL - Michele Bachmann spent the summer and fall in Iowa, hoping to gain traction as a presidential candidate.
By Don Davis, Forum News Service , February 25, 2012
Minnesota Political Notebook: Bakk demands open decision on fliers
ST. PAUL - The Senate’s top Democrat does not believe literature some Republicans handed out at the Feb. 7 precinct caucuses cost just $47.
And Senate Minority Leader Tom Bakk, DFL-Cook, demands that the Senate Rules Committee take up the matter.
By Don Davis, Forum News Service , February 19, 2012
Minnesota Political Notebook: Political rhetoric up, cooperation down at Minnesota Capitol
ST. PAUL - Political rhetoric escalated in the Minnesota Capitol as Democratic Gov. Mark Dayton vetoed four Republican-written lawsuit reform bills.
By Don Davis, Forum News Service , February 11, 2012
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