As predicted, the special sessions was quick. The Minneapolis Star Tribune reports…

Tightly packed into temporary quarters for a special session, Minnesota’s political leaders scrambled early Saturday to finish voting on nearly half the $42 billion two-year state budget. Their work, started Friday, included a struggle over a controversial spending and policy plan for environmental and agricultural programs, with the House and Senate volleying versions late into the night before it was approved, avoiding a state government shutdown.

The Duluth News Tribune reports specifically on the state of broadband in the budget…

Expanding broadband in rural Minnesota will get $10 million, down from $20 million approved a year ago, $100 million that broadband supporters wanted and $30 million Gov. Mark Dayton suggested. House Republicans began the year with no broadband money in their plan.

“There is no question we have missed an incredible opportunity here,” Rep. Erik Simonson, DFL-Duluth, said about broadband.

I’m not sure about Annandale’s broadband earmark. (And it’s Saturday and I’m in New Orleans but I will try to learn more on Monday.)