Legislation to have the state subsidize a new Minnesota Twins stadium made some progress at the Legislature, despite lawmakers' misgivings. MPR's Martin Kaste reports that the fate of the Twins Stadium bill had fallen into the hands of the members of the Senate Local and Metropolitan Government Committee…and they were none too happy about it.

The committee's surly mood stemmed from the fact that a deadline was forcing them to pass the stadium bill or let it die of sheer inertia. Committee members say they don't want the state to have to raise hundreds of millions of dollars from a 5-cent cigarette tax and a variety of other user fees and sports merchandise taxes, but also expressed frustration with their own lack of ideas for better ways to finance it.