Minn. This time of year, it seems you can t turn on the television, pick up a newspaper or listen to the radio without hearing something about a government budget.
Someone wants to expand a program, cut a program or create some new way to spend money.
On top of all the spending and cutting, there s a pile of tax forms somewhere that need to be filed before the middle of March. It s enough to make a person head for the hills. So that s what I did on a recent Sunday afternoon. With the temperature climbing past 20 degrees, I pulled a pair of hunting boots from winter storage and headed for the Whitewater Wildlife Management Area, about 40 minutes east of Rochester. Snowmobilers and ice anglers may be the only Minnesotans who welcomed this year s return of real winter.