Double Deal

I've been reading both newspapers of the Twin Cities for the last 16 years, and I don't think there's ever been a time when their front pages were so close to identical: not only the headline choice but even the same moment captured photographically -- as if there were only one member of the Minnesota legislature working on the state's final budget. (I guess a one-member legislature probably would have been able to make a deal, huh?)

It's interesting to note how the PiPress's version is pithier and more tightly cropped -- all around, much bolder and more in-your-face.

Or in Rep. Dean Urdahl's face, to be completely accurate.