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The report card
November 25, 2002

Gov. Jesse Ventura's administration on Monday released a "report card" on how well it reached some of his goals. The grades were determined by people within Ventura's administration and by some outsiders who deal regularly in the issues. Grades are on a scale of 1 to 10.

St. Paul, Minn. — Healthy, Vital Communities
•The Best K-12 Public Education in the Nation, 6.0
•Improving the Competitive Position of Rural Minnesota, 6.4
•Light Rail Transit, 8.9
•Growing Smart in Minnesota, 6.5
•Partnerships for Affordable Housing, 8.6
•Multimodal Transportation to Get People and Goods Around Minnesota, 5.8
•Telecommunications as Economic Development, 4.0
•Living Human Rights and Respect, not evaluated
•Reliable Energy and Consumer Choices, 6.9
•Ensuring an Information Highway that Leaves No Community Excluded, 6.3

Self Sufficient People
•Transitioning from Welfare to Self-Sufficiency, 7.9
•A Health System for the Next 50 Years, 7.0
•Insisting that Parents PARENT, not evaluated
•Independent Living, 8.1
•Assuring Lifelong Learning for Work and Life, not evaluated
•Tobacco Settlement Endowments: Improving Health Status for All Minnesotans, 9.0

Service, Not Systems
•Rein in Rulemaking and Excessive Regulation, 7.0
•Single House Legislature, 4.1
•A Tax System that Makes Sense, 8.5
•Active, Engaged Citizens, 8.7
•State Departments: Best Bang for the Buck, 7.6
•Reforming "Politics as Usual," 5.1
•Electronic Government Services Initiative, 4.7

Minnesota: World Competitor
•Trade: Tapping the World's Interest in Minnesota, 8.0
•Agriculture: Competitive Anywhere in the World, 6.8
•Developing the Workforce for Tomorrow, 5.6
•The Best Climate to Grow Business, 6.9
•Commercialization of New Technologies, 5.4
•Jesse "The Tourism Governor" Ventura: Promoting Minnesota, Promoting the Industry, 8.9

(Source: Gov. Jesse Ventura's office)

(Copyright 2002 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)

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