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        "uri": "/2013/11/07/mnsure-signups-nearly-triple-in-last-two-weeks/",
        "title": "MNsure signups nearly triple in last two weeks",
        "byline": "Patrick Condon",
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        "prettyDate": "November 07, 2013",
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        "summary": "The number of people who signed up for insurance through Minnesota's online exchange nearly tripled from its first two weeks of operation to its second two weeks, but it's impossible to say whether MNsure is succeeding in the key goal of the federal health overhaul: reducing the number of people...",
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        "uri": "/2013/09/09/minnesota-has-lowest-exchange-rates-so-far/",
        "title": "Minnesota has lowest exchange rates so far",
        "byline": "Patrick Condon",
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        "prettyDate": "September 09, 2013",
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        "summary": "Minnesota's exchange rates start at $91 a month.",
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      {
        "uri": "/2013/03/19/major-insurance-overhaul-passes-at-minnesota-capit/",
        "title": "Major insurance overhaul passes at Minnesota Capitol",
        "byline": "Patrick Condon",
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        "prettyDate": "March 19, 2013",
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        "summary": "More than 300,000 uninsured Minnesotans will have a route toward health coverage under a bill the state Senate passed Monday, the final legislative step toward implementing one of the major features of the new federal health care law.",
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        "uri": "/2013/03/15/house-passes-online-health-insurance-marketplace/",
        "title": "House passes online health insurance marketplace",
        "byline": "Patrick Condon",
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        "prettyDate": "March 15, 2013",
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        "summary": "The Minnesota House passed a bill early Friday creating an online health insurance marketplace that aims to provide a new way for at least 1.3 million Minnesotans to purchase coverage, a key element of the new federal health care law.",
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        "uri": "/2013/02/13/do-tax-increases-kill-jobs/",
        "title": "Do tax increases kill jobs?",
        "byline": "Patrick Condon",
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        "prettyDate": "February 13, 2013",
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        "summary": "Dik Bolger is a lifelong Minnesota Democrat, a gray-bearded baby boomer with a braid down his back whose Minneapolis printing company's plant displays work by local artists and sculptors. He backed Mark Dayton for governor, but his take on the Democratic chief executive's plan for new business taxes could be...",
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        "uri": "/2012/10/03/labor-standoffs-silence-orchestras/",
        "title": "Labor standoffs silence orchestras",
        "byline": "Patrick Condon",
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        "prettyDate": "October 03, 2012",
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        "summary": "The Minnesota Orchestra was called the world's greatest not long ago, welcome recognition for musicians based outside a top cultural center. Now its members are locked out of Orchestra Hall, stuck in the same kind of labor-management battle recently afflicting teachers and football referees.",
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        "uri": "/2012/03/12/unions-crowd-minnesota-capitol-over-right-to-work/",
        "title": "Unions crowd Minnesota Capitol over 'right to work'",
        "byline": "Patrick Condon",
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        "prettyDate": "March 12, 2012",
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        "authors": [
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        "summary": "Minnesota Republican senators got a taste Monday of the fight over labor rights that gripped other Midwestern statehouses in the last year, with a committee narrowly passing legislation to curb union power even as hundreds of demonstrators chanted and yelled just feet away.",
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      },
      {
        "uri": "/2011/07/07/minnesota-a-battle-over-big-spending-legacy/",
        "title": "Minnesota a battle over big-spending legacy",
        "byline": "Patrick Condon",
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        "prettyDate": "July 07, 2011",
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        "summary": "The weeklong shutdown of Minnesota's government stems from a deep conflict about the state's tradition of generous public assistance programs.",
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