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For a fewgifted teens,home iswheretheir art is

Maximino Garcia-Marin isamong dozens of Minneapolisart students who created projectsfor Viva City, an annual citywidecompetition that continues at theCentral Library through March16th. But he’s among an elite fewwhose artwork carries painful un-dertones.

Still, it’s hard to imagine a betterperson to create art around one ofthis year’s themes— home—thansomeone who went so graciouslyfor so long without one. Through-out middle school and much ofhigh school, where he now is a se-nior in the Patrick Henry Inter-national Baccalaureate (IB) Pro-gram, Garcia-Marin lived withhis parents and three younger sib-lings atMary’s Place, aMinneapo-lis shelter.

“I tried to hide it sometimes,”said Garcia-Marin, 18 who speaksso softly one must lean in to heareachword, something you quicklyrealize you want to do.

“Iwas trying to get past that andlook at the positives of living there.Wewere saving upmoney.Wehadfood.”His parents carvedout smalljobs there, as did he.

During his five years at Mary’sPlace, he became a documentar-ian of sorts, filling sketch bookswith pages of stories told inwordsand pencil.

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By RACHEL E. STASSEN-BERGERand PATDOYLEStar Tribune staff writers

Gov. Tim Pawlenty signaledWednesday that he’ll approve a ma-jor statewide public works effort, af-terDFLersmade concessions to fundhis priorities with no assurances thathe’ll approve their projects.

Pawlenty said he can “work with”

the Legislature’s latest borrowing billfor construction projects — an indi-cation that hewill use his authority totrim projects from the measure rath-er than veto the entire bill.

But at $1 billion, the bonding billremains roughly $300 million larg-er than the governor had sought. TheDFL-ledHouse andSenate arepoisedto pass the legislation Thursday, andPawlenty could trimspecific itemsby

the end of the week.“The bonding bill incorporates

most of our key priorities,” Pawlentysaid. “It’s still too large, but it’s a billwe can work with. We’ll just have toslim it down.”

After the governor threatened toveto an earlier version in its entire-ty, legislators reconstructed the bill,adding projects that he wanted andcutting funds for some he didn’t.

Sen. Keith Langseth, DFL-Glyndon, and Rep. Alice Hausman,DFL-St. Paul, acknowledged thatthere was a risk in making the con-cessionswithout knowing howmanyprojects could get sliced from theirbill.

But they said there was no chancefor a deal otherwise because the gov-

0 DFLmade concessions, but the governor is still expected to use his line-itemveto to trim out some projects.

Pawlenty to signbondingbill

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Legislatureacts tobansexoffenderchiropractors

By LORA PABST • lpabst@startribune.com

Less than two weeks after a StarTribune report exposed a legal loop-hole that allowsconvicted sexoffend-ers towork as chiropractors, the stateSenate ismovingquickly on abill thatwould overturn the policy.

Sen. Sharon Erickson Ropes, DFL-Winona, introduced a bill Tuesdaythat would expand a law that cur-rently governs just the state Boardof Medical Practice, which is pro-hibited from issuing a medical li-cense to anyone convicted of a felo-ny-level sexual offense. The bill wasunanimously approved in a commit-tee vote Wednesday night. It will beheard before the State Senate Judicia-ry committee on Friday.

“It’s certainly a high standard thatwe also want applied to chiroprac-tors,” said Erickson Ropes, a regis-

0After the Star Tribune reportedthat a convict got a license topractice despite past abuse, a billon the issuemoved in theHouse.

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tered nurse. “I think citizens wouldbe surprised to find out that therewere two sets of expectations. … It’sa no-brainer to me that we’re equal-izing those expectations.”

Gary Hill, the Senate DFL cau-cus spokesman, said themeasure haswidespread support and is expectedto pass in the Senate.

Erickson Ropes said she draftedthe bill after reading the newspaper’sreport about Dr. Scott Fredin, whowas granted a license by the stateBoard of Chiropractic Examinerslast month even though Fredin spenttwo years in jail after pleading guiltyto sexually assaulting two patients athis practice in Owatonna, Minn.

The board revoked Fredin’s li-cense when he was convicted in2003, but board officials approved

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FormerWASP BettyWall Strohfus, a native of Faribault,Minn.,was among severalMinnesotans to receive theCongressional GoldMedal onWednesday. Behind herwas TomBrokaw, author of “The Greatest Generation.”

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By HAYLEYTSUKAYAMAhayley.tsukayama@startribune.com

WASHINGTON–Betty Strohfus, 90, has never likedhaving her feet on the ground.

“As a kid, if I couldn’t climb a tree, I’d sit on theroof,” she said.

So Strohfus couldn’t pass up a chance to fly dur-ingWorldWar II, when she came across a brochureasking women to join the military’s Women Air-force Service Pilots (WASP) program, which wasdesigned to free up male pilots for missions over-seas.

Known in her flying days as BettyWall, Strohfus,of Faribault, Minn., was one of nearly 200 WASPSwhogathered inWashington,D.C., onWednesday to

receive a long overdue recognition of their work—the Congressional Gold Medal, one of the nation’shighest civilian honors.

More than 1,000 women flew non-combat mis-sions for the United States during the war, includ-ing a handful ofMinnesotawomen. Never commis-sioned or given benefits, theWASP pilots were noteven recognized as veterans until 1977. OnWednes-day, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, House MinorityLeader JohnBoehner, SenateMajority LeaderHarryReid and Secretary of theAir ForceMichaelDonleypaused in their other duties to bestow the medals.

Other Minnesotans were also recognized. Patri-cia McBride of St. Paul traveled to Washington to

Anelite corps ofwomen received overduerecognition of their high-flyingwork.

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By KEVINGILESkgiles@startribune.com

Oakdale leaders are press-ing their police chief for an-swers about hismanagementstyle after a study criticizedsome department practices.

Two City Council mem-bers, Kent Dotas and StanKarwoski, asked Chief BillSullivan during a meetingMonday night why the studydidn’t address specific allega-tions by a police union thatled to a no-confidence voteagainst Sullivan last spring.Officers alleged he ran thedepartment with a heavyhand.

The study, for which thecity paid nearly $50,000, wasconducted by the Police Ex-ecutive Research Forum(PERF) of Washington, D.C.Researchers interviewedseveral officers.

“Did people feel free to beable to talk?” Dotas asked thechief.

Sullivan said the officersthat PERF interviewed weregiven the opportunity tospeak theirminds. “Themostimportant thing to me is ev-eryone had a clear shot,” Sul-

0 Chief Bill Sullivanpledges changesfollowing a no-confidencevote by his department’sunion last spring.

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accept the honor on behalf ofher mother, the late Anna RossKaryAnderson.Themedalwasalso awarded posthumously toMicky Axton, a WASP pilotwho died in Eden Prairie lastmonth. Honoree Ruth Robertsof Minneapolis was unable toattend the ceremony.

“It’s so surprising tobe recog-nized,” Strohfus said. “It’s trueweweren’t recognizedfora longtime,butat the timeIdidn’t care,because I got to fly airplanes.”

Love at first flightStrohfus took up aviation af-

ter she overheard aman talkingabout flying while working atthe local courthouse.

“It was love at first flight,”she quipped.

To join the local flight club,Strohfus took her bike to thebank andput it up for collateralon a $100 loan. For the required35 hours of flight time requiredto qualify for WASP service,Strohfus flew a friend on his

commutes from Faribault toMankato.

After graduating fromtraining with the first class ofWASPs in 1944, Strohfus wasoff to Nevada to train gunners.She flew every day.

“I loved every minute of it,”she said.

On Dec. 20, 1944, the Ar-my deactivated the WASP. “Itbrokemy heart when they saidthey didn’t need us anymore,”Strohfus said. “We wantedto fly for nothing, but theywouldn’t let us.”

When she returned to Min-nesota in 1945, she tried to geta job with Northwest Airlines,only to hear “we don’t hirewomen.”

Strohfus did everything shecould to try to get back into theair, but no one would hire her.Now she travels the country,speaking about her experienc-es as one of the first women tofly American military aircraft.

At Wednesday’s ceremo-ny, surrounded by friends andfamily, Strohfuscouldbarelygetthrough a sentence without be-ing stopped by autograph seek-ers and other admirers.

One admirer, Marine LanceCpl. Gia Prestonise, had nevermet Strohfus before this weekbut quickly fell in lovewith herwarm, gregarious personali-ty. Prestonise fought throughthe crowd Wednesday to findStrohfus and congratulate heron the medal.

“We’re so proud of you,”Prestonise said, taking Stro-hfus’ hands in hers. “Thankyou, ma’am, for all you’vedone for us. You gave me thisuniform and you didn’t evenknow it.”

Hayley Tsukayama is an intern in the

Star Tribune’s Washington bureau.

LAUREN VICTORIA BURKE • Associated Press

Formermembers of theWomenAirforce Service Pilots, the first women in to fly Americanmilitaryaircraft, gathered on Capitol HillWednesday.“It’s so surprising to be recognized,” said Betty Strohfus, anative of Faribault,Minn.

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ernor wouldn’t agree to lim-it his line-item vetoes in ex-change for concessions. Theysaid it’s likely the entire pub-licworks bill would have beenkilled or delayed without thechanges.

“He would have vetoed thewhole bill if we hadn’t givenhimmost of what he wanted,”Langseth said. “We were con-stantly asking them for somekind of a deal … and we nev-er got any.”

Hausman said the Housedoes not have the votes tooverride line-item vetoes byPawlenty.

Still, she said, it was “verygood news to me and to thou-sands of out-of-work Minne-sotans that the governor sayshe will sign this bonding bill.”

Quick actionwas soughtDFLers came into the legis-

lative session lastmonth insist-ing that work on the measureneeded to be completed ear-ly to get construction and oth-

er jobs into the pipeline quick-ly. They feared that a protract-ed battle with Pawlentywoulddelay that effort.

DFLers may have removedone major stumbling block toPawlenty’s approval by meet-ing him halfway on expand-ing the sex offender facilityat Moose Lake. Pawlenty hadsaid hewanted $89million forthat project. The Legislature’slatest version includes $47.5million.

“We will make do withit,” Pawlenty said. “It’s whatthey’ve given us, sowe’llmakethe most with what we have.”

Also on Wednesday, pro-gram officials provided somedetails in response to a StarTribune request for a costbreakdown of the project.Among the disclosures, theadministration wants to buy12 outdoor benches for morethan $700 each, 10 stools cost-ing $400 each and three natu-ralwood file cabinets for $946each.

The governor said he hasasked officials to figure out

exactly what can be built withthe $47.5 million to house thecivilly committed sex offend-ers. “I’ve told them to focus onbuilding additional contain-ment space as opposed to theinfrastructure,” he said.

In addition to concessionson Moose Lake, DFLers in-cluded funding for sever-al projects that Pawlenty de-manded but didn’t get in ear-lier versions of the bill. Theyprovided more than $9 mil-lion to renovate the VeteransHome in Minneapolis andmore than $10million for con-struction at Oak Park Heightsprison.

DFLers also agreed to cut$44 million from their earlierrequests for construction inthe Minnesota State Collegesand Universities system.

Staff writer Mike Kaszuba contributed

to this story.

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his request to start over. Heis not allowed to treat femalepatients without another per-son in the room, but hedoesn’thave to tell patients about hisconviction. Fredin has beenworking in Minneapolis. Hislicense is registered at Hu-man Interfaces on WillowStreet. Larry Spicer, executivedirector of the chiropracticboard, told the StarTribune inFebruary that he thought theboard would support extend-ing the revocation require-ment to chiropractors.

The move to eliminate thelicense loophole is supportedby the Minnesota Chiroprac-

tic Association, whose execu-tive director, Debra Hurston,is circulating a letter in favorof Erickson Ropes’ bill.

“Having a professional li-cense in Minnesota is a priv-ilege and a trust,” Hurstonwrote. “We believe this bill isconsistent with previous leg-islative policy regarding li-censed professions.”

David Kunz testifiedon behalf of the Minneso-ta Chiropractic Associationat Wednesday’s committeehearing. He said even if chiro-practors are restricted in theirpractice, there is no guaran-tee that they won’t reoffend.Kunz said a companion mea-sure was introduced in theHouse this week.

“With the severity of thischarge, this is the appropriateresponse,” he said.

Dr. Adam Schotzko, aWoodbury chiropractor, al-so testified at the committeehearing. He said chiroprac-tic doctors want to be held tothe same standards as medi-cal doctors.

If the bill becomes law,Erickson Ropes said, legisla-tors should consider extend-ing the ban to other state-reg-ulated professions, includingdentists, psychologists andnurses. “Now that we havethis awareness, we’re goingto have to follow up on it,”she said.

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As Congress spars with Bunning, Minnesota hums alongBy Hayley TsukayamaMarch 2, 2010

Sen. Jim Bunning and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid exchanged strong words thismorning, as the Kentucky Republican continued his objection to passing 30-dayextensions to unemployment benefits and health without applying the Senate's rules ofpay-go, which requires the Senate to offset spending before passing new legislation.

Bunning's protest over deficit spending has stopped unemployment payments andtransportation projects in some states, but, for now, Minnesota is doing just fine in bothdepartments, thanks.

Not that unemployed Minnesotans aren't affected. While figures from the U.S.Department of Labor say no unemployed Minnesotans are expected to be left high anddry by the Bunning hold, that's only because the state system has an extended benefitsprogram to cover the 8,000 to 9,000 people who currently have federal emergencyunemployment insurance.

And until the state Department of Employment and Economic Development (DEED) getsits marching orders from Congress, Kirsten Morell, a spokeswoman for DEED, saidDEED wants people to hold off until Friday to ask about benefits.

If Congress reauthorizes the extension by Friday, the department can place those whoqualify in the federal unemployment tiers. If it doesn't, DEED will most likely place theunemployed into the extended benefits tier.

And if Congress makes the decision to reauthorize after Friday has passed, DEED mayhave to shuffle benefits yet again, returning people to federal unemployment insurance,to make sure they're following the letter of the law. The state's online unemploymentsystem helps DEED move people to different tiers of the system, but Morrell admitted it's"quite a feat."

Needless to say, DEED is hoping that won't happen. "[The department is] hoping toplace people in the appropriate program the first time," Morell said.

Over at the Minnesota Department of Transportation (MnDOT), they've learned fromhistory. Communications director Kevin Gutknecht said MnDOT put programs in place tokeep projects from shutting down in situations like this after the last reauthorization of thetransportation law in 2005, which Gutknecht said took two years.

"We knew the potential existed, and we're ready for it," Gutknecht said. Thanks to thatpreparation, the department hasn't had to shut down any projects as a result of Bunning's

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Hayley Tsukayama is an intern at the Star Tribune's Washington bureau.

© 2010 Star Tribune. All rights reserved.

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Credit: STAR TRIBUNE (Mpls.-St. Paul) Leaders work to stop carp from invading Great Lakes // Governors and White House officials pledged$78.5 million toward an effort to keep the fish out.HALEY TSUKAYAMAPublication Date: February 9, 2010 Page: 05B Section: NEWS Edition: METRO

State and federal officials vowed Monday to expand an aggressive campaign to prevent Asian carpfrom establishing populations in the Great Lakes, pledging $78.5 million to the effort.

The governors of Wisconsin and Michigan met with Obama administration officials to discuss ways tokeep the carp out of the lakes. Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn participated by telephone. Asian carp is a termused for any of four invasive species of carp.

The carp-control framework proposed Monday also includes a plan to open locks into Lake Michiganless frequently to prevent the fish from entering, a move that could have implications for the shippingindustry.

"We believe the strategy and these actions are giving a strong and aggressive federal response to theAsian carp," said Nancy Sutley, who chairs the White House Council on Environmental Quality.

While no live Asian carp have been found in the Great Lakes, scientists have found traces of carpDNA in Lake Michigan upstream from electric barriers designed to keep the fish out.

Asian carp were introduced into the Mississippi River basin after catfish farmers imported the carp inthe 1970s to control algae. Many fear the fish could destroy the Great Lakes' ecosystem andmultibillion-dollar fishing industry by devouring the food supplies for native fish populations.

In December, Minnesota Attorney General Lori Swanson filed a brief supporting Michigan's requestfor an injunction to immediately close two Illinois shipping locks that connect the Mississippi to theGreat Lakes. Minnesota joined New York, Ohio, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania and the province of Ontarioin supporting the measure. Illinois officials and the federal government opposed closing the locks,citing economic concerns. On Jan. 19, the U.S. Supreme Court refused Michigan's request to close thelocks immediately.

Federal officials said the governors did not discuss the lawsuit at their meeting Monday, althoughJo-Ellen Darcy of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers said that the locks represent only two ways forthe carp to enter the Great Lakes and that closing them was "not necessarily the silver bullet that we'reall looking for."

Charlie Wooley of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, who is based in Minneapolis, said this is not theonly anti-carp effort Minnesota is undertaking.

"We're not only concerned about the fish getting into the Great Lakes. We also have researchers fromthe U.S. Geological Survey starting to develop techniques that could control Asian carp in other partsof its expanded range," he said. "We'd like to develop techniques and then reclaim areas where the

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Credit: STAR TRIBUNE (Mpls.-St. Paul) Lawmakers face threats over votes on health care // Amid heightened rhetoric, Obamadared GOP critics to campaign on repeal this fall.HAYLEY TSUKAYAMA; KEVIN DIAZ; STAFF WRITERSPublication Date: March 26, 2010 Page: 01A Section: NEWS Edition: METRO

WASHINGTON - Rep. Keith Ellison was called "Sambo." Rep. Betty McCollum received a usedcondom. Both got threatening letters, as did a number of other Minnesota lawmakers whovoted for the Democrats' heath care bill.

Thursday's incidents in the Twin Cities appeared to be part of a nationwide rash of threatsand harassment against members of Congress in the aftermath of the bitter nationalstruggle over overhauling health care.

As threats spread, political rhetoric over the historic legislation remained intense asPresident Obama dared his Republican critics to follow through on their vows to campaignthis fall on a platform to repeal the legislation. Speaking in Iowa, where he first laid outdetailed plans as a candidate to overhaul health care, Obama said: "If these congressmenin Washington want to come here to Iowa and tell small-business owners that they plan totake away their tax credits and essentially raise their taxes, be my guest."

Meanwhile, some Republicans accused Democrats of using the reports of threats forpolitical gain. "To use such threats as political weapons is reprehensible," said Rep. EricCantor of Virginia, the Republican whip, who said a shot was fired through a window of hiscampaign office in Richmond, Va., this week, but that he had chosen not to publicize theincident. "By ratcheting up the rhetoric, some will only inflame these situations todangerous levels."

Leaders in both parties are condemning the vandalism and threats, but disagree on why it'shappening. Democrats and a few Republicans reported at least 10 incidents of harassmentamid the tensions following passage of the health care bill, which Obama signed Tuesday.

Lawmakers in other states have had windows in their offices broken, one reported a shotfired and a gas line was cut at the home of a congressman's brother in Virginia.

McCollum told authorities she received two threatening letters at her St. Paul districtoffice, one attached to a used condom and laced with obscenities. One letter, a page-longtypewritten screed threatening to "intimidate you and your family," was copied to Sens.Amy Klobuchar and Al Franken, and to Ellison, all Democrats. Ellison said he also receivedseveral offensive e-mails and calls, including a voice mail from a man in south Minneapoliswho said "Timothy McVeigh said dead government workers are good government workers.Goodbye, Sambo."

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'Americans are upset'

Democrats blamed Republicans and their Tea Party allies for overheated rhetoric that hasfanned the flames of fanaticism nationwide. "Convincing their base that the health carereform would lead to 'Armageddon,' conservative leaders in Congress, talk radio and onFox News have deliberately whipped conservative extremists into a frenzy," said EricBurns, of the left-leaning media watchdog group Media Matters.

Minnesota Republican Rep. Michele Bachmann, a Tea Party icon, also condemned thethreats, even as she said she understands people's frustrations.

"Americans are upset for being ignored by Congress, but this frustration should bechanneled into repealing this monstrosity of a bill," she said. "I encourage everyone to calltheir congressman, get involved in local elections and make your voice heard clearly thisNovember."

McCollum, the first in the Minnesota delegation to discover the hate mail, said shereported it to St. Paul police, as well as to Capitol Police and postal authorities. At leastone other threatening message was received through her website.

"This has gone beyond freedom of speech," McCollum said. "This has gone to directintimidation with intent to harm, and that is a criminal action."

One letter received by McCollum and several other Minnesota Democrats contained a slewof obscenities and vowed to take violent action, if necessary, to stop the "this 'BigGovernment' takeover."

'It's worse'

Ellison, who got a copy of the letter, said that as a black Muslim, he's used to hate mail."We get stuff like this every day," he said. "I have boxes of it. But usually it's on myreligion. The last few days it's been about the health care stuff, and it's worse."

Ellison said he also has received several offensive e-mails and phone messages, includingfrom the Minneapolis man who left his name and phone number. He also recounted anexpletive-laced letter that he received before the vote last week, calling him a"communist" and threatening to "destroy" him if he voted for the bill. He said that while hedoesn't feel personally intimidated, he normally reports the incidents to police "so theycan link the dots together."

McCollum's district director, Josh Straka, said that the postmark on the letters shereceived was from St. Paul and mailed Wednesday. "They were obscene," Straka said. Headded these were the only letters the office had received that "have risen to that level."

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Klobuchar's office confirmed it received one of the letters. Franken's spokeswoman, JessMcIntosh, said she couldn't immediately confirm or deny that they had received anythreats, given the volume of mail the office receives.

Other Minnesota members of Congress reported high volumes of calls and letters overhealth care, including Democrat Jim Oberstar, an abortion foe who was at the center of adebate over abortion language in the final bill.

No other Minnesota congressional members reported threats as of Thursday evening."Nothing out of the ordinary," said Oberstar spokesman John Schadl. "Just a few commentsthat would embarrass the mothers and aunts of the callers or e-mailers, and those tend tocome from outside of the district."

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More than 31million bags checked byairlines last year—about 1.4 percent of allbags—did not arrivewith the passengers.About 1.8million bagswere lost altogether.

VIKINGS 17, KANSAS CITY 13

Despite going 1-for-4 for 4 yards in two series before being relieved by Tarvaris

Jackson in the first quarter, newest Viking Brett Favre was all smiles Friday

night at theMetrodome,where he received a standing ovation fromonce-hos-

tileVikings fans.Above, Favrewarmedupbefore taking the field against theChiefs. In-

side the Dome it was an eerie scene: Souvenir stands hawking purple No. 4 gear.

AFEWTHROWS,AQUICKEXIT

Game recap, ZygiWilf looks to thepostseason, andmore inSports

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Frugal, savvy travelers usecreativity to see the sights

By HAYLEYTSUKAYAMAhayley.tsukayama@startribune.com

Wearing a fake beard and a redplaid shirt on national televisionwas a small price to pay to see thepyramids of Egypt.

When Alicen Burns Spauldingof southMinneapolis and her fam-ily won $42,000 dressed like lum-berjacks during a Halloween ap-pearance on “Family Feud,” sheknew exactly what she and herhusband would do.

“We knew that whatever wewon we would spend on travel,”Burns Spaulding said.

Fewhavehad such luck.As fam-ilies face falling home prices and

rising unemployment, the reces-sion has put a damper on sum-mer travel plans, causing steepdeclines in spending on every-thing from hotels to souvenirs, ac-cording to theU. S. CommerceDe-partment.

At the same time, many Min-nesota families have been loathto give up their summer vaca-tions, and they’ve made sacrific-es to travel. “People are definitelystill traveling,” said Alison Traxlerof MLT’s Worry-Free Vacations.MLT agents have seen roughlythe same number of travelers thissummer as last year; they’re just

, Recession puts damper on some summer vacations, but not all.

Travel continues on A8Ø

The Spauldings ofMinneapolis dressed up like lumberjacks to compete onTV’s “Family Feud.”Alicen Burns Spaulding and her husband, Steve, (on thecamels) decided to use their share of thewinnings to take a trip to Egypt.

TheMinnesotawaytopay for avacation

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Mesabablamed forstrandingpassengers

By PAULWALSHpwalsh@startribune.com

Federal investigators on Fridayblamed a Mesaba Airlines repre-sentative at the Rochester airportfor stranding 47 passengers forabout six hours on a regional air-liner this month.

The U.S. Department of Trans-portation’s (DOT) preliminaryinvestigation found that the rep-resentative for Mesaba, the onlycarrier staffing the airport at thattime, “improperly refused the re-quests of the ExpressJet captainto let her passengers off the plane,telling the captain that the airportwas closed to passengers for secu-rity reasons.”

According to transcripts oftransmissions from the cockpit re-leased Friday, the pilot grew frus-trated during the course of whatshe called a “ridiculous” ordeal,in which passengers on the near-ly full plane had virtually nothingto eat, and the toilet and babies onboard began to smell.

“I just can’t sit here any lon-ger,” she radioed to ExpressJet dis-patchers in Houston. “… There’sno food, and [the passengers are]just getting really unhappy. …We’re stuck here with no lavs,no nothing. … There are lawsuitsabout this kind of stuff.”

Mesaba CEO John Spanjerssaid his company “disagreeswith the DOT’s preliminary find-ings,” calling them “incongruentwith our initial internal review. …Mesaba offered assistance as a

, Transcripts describeMesaba

rep’s denial of access to airport

and pilot’s growing frustration.

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ELCABANONGAYCLERGYREPEALED

By JEFF STRICKLER • jstrickler@startribune.com

In a historic change, noncelibate gaysand lesbians can now lead parishes of theEvangelical Lutheran Church in America(ELCA).

On a 559-451 vote taken Friday in Minne-apolis at their biennial conference, delegatesrepealed the ELCA ban on gay clergy un-less they agree to remain celibate. It makesELCA, with 4.8 millionmembers nationwideand830,000 inMinnesota, the largest denom-ination in the country to welcome gays intothe pulpits without restriction.

The vote did not surprise Ryan Schwarzfrom Washington, a member of LutheranCORE, a group that opposed themotion.Nordid it dampen his interest in running for vicepresident, the highest lay positionwithin theELCA. That vote will be taken today.

“I remain a candidate,” he said emphatical-ly as he left the convention hall.

“Weknewcoming into this thatwe’d prob-ably lose, but I plan to speak out inmy speech[today] about how the leadership has failedthis assembly.”

As for Javen Swanson, the vote clarified afuture that had been highly in doubt.

“The vote determined whether or not Iwas going to be able to continue through theordinationprocess,” said the St. Paul resident,a seminarian who recently wed his same-sexpartner in Connecticut.

“It was incredibly emotional. The weight

, The 559-451 vote allows for gay

pastorswithout the church’s former

stipulation that they remain celibate.

ELCA continues on A9Ø

MARLIN LEVISON •mlevison@startribune.com

Members prayed for guidance after the vote.“This is a very difficult day for thosewho didnot support [it],”ELCA leaderMarkHanson said.

Global bankers say recession is nearlyhistory

By EDMUND L. ANDREWSNewYork Times

JACKSON HOLE, WYO. – Centralbankers from around the worldexpressed growing confidenceFriday that the worst of the finan-cial crisis is over and that a globaleconomic recovery is beginning to

take shape.“The prospects for a return to

growth in the near term appeargood,” declared Ben Bernanke,chairman of the Federal Reserve,expressing optimism both aboutthe United States and the world-wide outlook.

Though the Fed chairman re-

peated his warning that the eco-nomic recovery here is likely tobe slow and arduous, and that un-employment will remain high foranother year, he went beyond thecentral bank’s most recent state-ment that economic activity was“leveling out.” Speaking to cen-tral bankers and economists at the

Fed’s annual retreat here in theGrand Tetons, Bernanke echoedthe growing relief among Europe-an and Asian central bankers thattheir own economies have alreadystarted to rebound.

Along with an obvious sense ofrelief and some self-congratula-tion over what has been achievedsince the financial crisis of last

, While turbulence still lies ahead, theworld’s central bankers are

looking forways toweaneconomies off emergencymeasures.

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courtesy during this delay.”On Aug. 8, the flight from

Houston to the Twin Citieswas redirected to Rochesterbecause of severe weather atMinneapolis-St. Paul Interna-tional Airport. It arrived aboutmidnight, and passengersweren’t allowed off the 50-seatplane until 6 a.m. the next day.The passengers eventually re-boarded Continental Flight2816, operated by ExpressJet,and reached the Twin Cities inmidmorning with a new crew.

Security reason disputedExpressJet said Friday that

its crew members — a pilot,copilot and flight attendant— did what they could to keeppassengers comfortable. “Theyprovided beverages, pillows,blankets and air conditioningduring the entire duration ofthe delay,” ExpressJet said.

In the terminal, accordingto the federal findings, Mesabawas “the only carrier in a posi-tion to help the stranded plane”but its representative rejectedthe crew’s request to let its pas-sengers in “because there wasno one from theTransportationSecurity Administration (TSA)available to screen passengers.”

However, the department

said, TSA rules allow passen-gers to get off a plane, enter theterminal and reboard withoutbeing screenedagain “as longasthey remain in a secure area.”

The airport’s manager notonly has said the passengersshould have been admitted toa secure area, he noted that aDelta flight that also was di-verted to Rochester that nightallowed its passengers to de-plane at 3:30 a.m.

Mesaba is a wholly ownedsubsidiary of Northwest Air-lines, which is a wholly ownedsubsidiary of Delta Air Lines.

Delta CEO Richard Ander-son said in a statement Fridaythat he has contacted Conti-nental Chairman andCEOLar-ry Kellner to “ensure we fullyunderstand the facts of thisunfortunate incident. Delta isworking with Mesaba to con-duct an internal investigation,continue our full cooperationwith the DOT and share all thefacts with Continental.”

‘Frustrated’with lack of helpKellner andExpressJet Pres-

ident and CEO Jim Ream ex-pressed satisfaction that inves-tigators recognized the crew’sefforts.

The preliminary federal in-vestigation also found thatwhile the crew repeatedly tried

to get permission to deplanethe passengers at the airport oronto abus,more senior person-nel within Continental or Ex-pressJet should have becomeinvolved in the effort to allowthe passengers off the plane.

“You know, learning moreabout the facts of this inci-dent hasn’t done a whole lotto temper my anger at the waythose passengers were treat-ed,” Transportation SecretaryRay LaHood wrote Friday onhis department blog. “I mean,there was really a completelack of common sense here. It’sno wonder the flying public isso frustrated.”

Members of theDOT’sAvia-tion Enforcement Office inter-viewed passengers, the flightcrew, airport personnel amongothers. Investigators also lis-tened to audio recordings fromthe aircraft and the dispatcher.

Department spokesmanBill Mosley said that the en-forcement office “is consider-ing the appropriate action totake against Mesaba” after thefull investigation is complete“within a fewweeks.”

The incident has promptedcalls for passage of a passen-gers’ bill of rights pending inCongress.

Paul Walsh • 612-673-4482

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THE PLANE

2:45 a.m.Express Jet captain:Welltheweather ismoving inhere now. So Imean this isgetting to be ridiculous. ... Sowe still can’t take off. And–what’s the hub coordina-tor saying? Because this is– because the people arenot – they are getting reallyupset – you knowwith theplane. So –we just need towork out someway to getthem off.

EJ dispatcher: Right.OK.Well.

EJ captain: You know – thiscan’t –we can’t keep themhere any longer. They’re– they don’t understandbecause the terminal isn’topen. ... But I need to tellthem something. I mean Ijust can’t sit here any longer.

4:31 a.m.Express Jet dispatcher: I justspoke to [Mesaba agent] outthere and she says there isnothing she can do to helpus out. She’s not going to letthem off the airplane.

EJ captain: That’s ridiculous.

MoreMSP-boundpassengers stuck for sixhoursNearly twoweeks after the

waiting in Rochester, morethan 100 Sun Country pas-sengers waited Friday aboutsix hours on a plane to leaveNewYork City.

Flight 242 was to take offfrom Kennedy Internation-al Airport at 10:55 a.m. (EDT)Friday. But passengers JohnNides and Gary Kurth said

Friday night that the planedidn’t start boarding untilabout an hour later — andit didn’t take off until after6 p.m. About 2½ hours later,the plane landed in the TwinCities.

Kurth said passengers weretold a weather system over Io-wawasbehindthedelay. “Theykept saying, ‘If we didn’t take

off in 20 minutes, we’d haveto go back and get fuel.’ Butweneverwent back,” he said.

Passengers were talk-ing about what happened inRochester, Nides said. “We’rethinking the whole time, goback, do what you have to doand let us out,” he said.

After about threehours,Ni-des said, the crew brought out

the food cart. But items had tobe purchased, and they quick-ly sold out, he said. Kurth saidalong with a Coke, he got thelast bag of M&M’s — andshared themwith his son.

In a statement Friday, CEOStan Gadek said Sun Countryregretted the delay andwouldissue refunds.

VINCE TUSS

FOURWAYSTO SAVEMONEYPack a cooler: Bringingyour own food and bever-ages, savesmoney and ac-comodates picky eaters.Look for free passes andpromotional events: Tar-get is sponsoring free or re-duced-price events atmanymuseums and theaters.Goto target.com/arts.Go to places with goodpublic transit:Many citieshave inexpensive passesand tickets for tourists.Staywith friends andfamily: Spend timewiththe ones you love insteadof spendingmoney at amotel. It’ll build characterfor the kids to share Grand-ma’s lumpy sofa bed.

getting more creative.Audrey Hendley, Ameri-

can Express’ vice president formarketing and strategic part-nerships, said a recent surveyof travel agents found morecustomers are taking advan-tage of last-minute deals andopting for frequent-flier plansthrough their credit cards.

The survey, an online poll of603 of the company’s agents na-tionwide, also found that trav-elers are gravitating toward all-inclusivepackages,which somebelievemakes it easier tounder-stand the total cost of a trip.

Traxler said travel agentshavebeenbooking fewer flightsto Mexico and Europe, butmore to domestic destinationssuch as Las Vegas and Florida.Those destinations are popularwith road-trippers, too.

Lisa and Chris Gemlo ofGolden Valley eventually planto visit all 50 state capitalswiththeir two sons. So far this year,they’ve been to Springfield, Ill.,and have explored St. Paul.

They’ve toured the countrywith money they squirreledaway ina travel account, includ-ing stipends fromChris’ volun-teer firefighting job andmoneyfrom a garage sale. Lisa said theaccount now has $1,200.

Setting asidemoney for trav-el sets a good example for theirchildren on how to effectivelybudget their money and turnlong days at work into days inthe sun, the Gemlos said.

“We work pretty hard,” Li-sa said. “It gives us some timeto relax.”

RandyandSharonEngellandof Farmingtonhave saved thou-sands of dollars for family tripsby shopping at garage sales,scanningcraigslist.organddriv-ing 10- and 12-year-old cars.

They’ve even won airlinetickets by entering radio con-tests and raffles. “I would rath-er travel than have a closet fullof Coach purses,” said Sharon.“If it’s not on sale, my son willtell you, ‘we’re not buying it.’ ”

They’re frugal when theytravel, too.

In June, the Engellands tooka 13-day trip to Washington,D.C. They parked the camperthey bought nearly a decadeago at a campground near oneof the city’sMetro lines so theydidn’t have to pay for parkingand taxi cabs. And theywent toseveral free museums.

Setting prioritiesDawn Duffy, spokeswoman

forAAAMinneapolis, said thatwhile the organization doesn’tkeep track of such consum-er behavior, anecdotally it’s

clear that more travelers arelike the Engellands. And thatmeans cuttingbackonvacationspending by staying at econo-myhotels orwith relatives, andbuying fewer souvenirs.

Duffy said she’s been struckby how many people havemade travel a priority in theirlives. “People are still trying toeke out room for enjoyment,”she said. “They’re still going, itjust means sitting down, look-ing at what you have and plan-ning accordingly.”

That’s what Gayle Knut-son and Jim Maher of Marineon St. Croix did this summerwhen theydecided that despiteworries about their incomes—both are self-employed— theywouldn’t sacrifice their sum-mer vacation.

Instead, they financed athree-week trip to New Zea-land by purging their home ofeverything they weren’t using.

They started with a garagesale to get rid of inexpensiveitems and put the proceeds ina tin box. Pricier items, includ-ingMaher’s cross-country skis,two canoes and a 35-millimetercamera, were sold on Craig-slist. And gems from Maher’sbaseball card collection werepeddled at a specialty store.The net? About $4,500.

That was enough to pay formost of their vacation, whichincluded overnight stays at the

equivalent of an upscale youthhostel.

To finance the family’s nextadventure, Knutson plans tosell a set of collectible Olym-pic pins in February, when in-terest in the Winter Olympicscould maximize their value.

During the worst of the re-cession, such sacrifices aren’tpainful. “You leave it all oneway or another,” Knutson saidwith a laugh.

Hayley Tsukayama • 612-673-7415

ø TRAVEL FROM A1

Travelersare frugal,creativeinmakingtheir plans

GAYLE KNUTSON

BY THE SEA : CaseyMaher and her father, Jim,hiking along the Tasman Sea in the Abel TasmanNational Park in New Zealand.

Family photo

IN L INCOLN ’S HOMETOWN: The Gemlofamily of Golden Valley dressed up to attend a ballin honor of the 16th president’s 200th birthday.

year, these central bankers arenowbeginning to focus quiet-ly on another big task, how tounwind the vast emergencymeasures they put in place tofight the crisis.

At almost the same timethat Bernanke spoke, the Na-tional Association of Real-tors reported sales of existinghomes jumped 7.2 percent inJuly — the biggest monthlyincrease in more than a de-cade and much bigger thananalysts expected.

Investorsreactedebullient-ly to both the housing newsand to the Fed chairman’s re-marks, with the Dow Jonesindustrial average jumping assoon as the markets openedand ending the day up 155.91points, or 1.67 percent, at9505.96. Though stock pric-es are far below their all-timehighs, the Dow has risen 45percent fromMarch and is atits highest point this year.

A growing number ofeconomists and some Fed of-ficials say the shift to tightermonetary policies and high-er interest rates, though un-likely to start until at least themiddle of next year,may haveto be much more abrupt thannormal to prevent inflationtwo or three years from now.

“When you get into a crisislike this, gradualism is not theright strategy,” said FredericMishkin, an economist at Co-lumbia University who was aFed governor from 2006 untilearlier this year. “Of course,when things turn around, youhave to be aggressive in theother direction.”

Indeed, the Federal Re-serve’s “exit strategy” couldlead to a clash with theObama administration. TheWhite House plans to releaseits newest budget estimatesnext week, and administra-tion officials said that the 10-year deficit will rise to $9 tril-lion — a big jump from theearlier estimate of $7 trillion.

Some Fed officials are al-ready worried about criti-cism they are financing the

government’s deficits by buy-ing long-term Treasury secu-rities, and the central bank an-nounced last week it will endthat program next month.

Going forward, Fed offi-cials could feel more pres-sure to further tighten mon-etary policy to counter thegovernment’s deficit spend-ing. The massive borrowingcould push up long-term in-terest rates if foreign inves-tors balk at buying U.S. debt.Bernanke argued aggres-sive action by countries pre-vented a collapse that wouldhave been even more cata-strophic.

Asserting that short-termlending markets are func-tioning more normally, thatcorporate bond issuance isstrong and that other “pre-viously moribund” securiti-zation markets are reviving,Bernanke said the UnitedStates and other major coun-tries are poised for growth.

Despite encouraging signsonmany fronts, American re-tailers have reported unex-pectedly weak sales in thepast week — a sign consum-er spending could drag downeconomic growth in themonths ahead.AndonThurs-day, theLaborDepartment re-ported new unemploymentclaims jumped again.

On Friday, a prominentbanking analyst warned hun-dreds more American bankswill fail over the next year,adding to difficulties smallbusinesses have experiencedin borrowing.

“There will be over 300bank closures,” said Mere-dithWhitney, who accuratelypredicted last year that Citi-group would have to cut itsdividend.

Jean-Claude Trichet, pres-ident of the European Cen-tral Bank, cautioned againstassuming the world is backto normal.

“We still have a lot of workto do,” he said, adding “itwould be a catastrophe” ifgovernments fail to heed thelessons of the crisis and finan-cial regulation.

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