Twin Cities Daily Planet: Sen. Al Franken talks to the AJW about the debt ceiling, Israel and the late Sen. Wellstone

The New York Times on Monday devoted a half page in its national section to the ongoing Minnesota government shutdown. At the bottom of the first column, reporter Monica Davey compared the situation in Minnesota — "the broadest shutdown in state history entering its second full week with no sign of a compromise on the horizon" — with the standoff in Washington, where President Obama and Republican leaders in Congress are locked in a tussle over raising the federal debt ceiling, and cutting spending as part of a deal.

The state and federal situations differ, the Times story noted; "but Minnesota's essential impasse sounds familiar: Republican lawmakers who control [the Legislature] want to rein in state spending and have rejected calls from Mark Dayton the Democratic governor, to raise income taxes on the wealthiest Minnesotans."

Sen. Al Franken, in his first interview with the American Jewish World since he took office two years ago, acknowledged the "tremendous parallels" between the debates in Minnesota and Washington.

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