Local officials greeted a bus full of VIPs last week that rolled up to a fire station in Minnetonka.

Some of the state legislators were visibly worn out as they disembarked and made their way into the firehouse for their eighth stop of 10 on a single day.

“Oh my god, can I take a nap?” House Capital Investment Committee Co-Chair Mary Franson joked as she stretched out on a leather couch in the fire station.

Her humorous aside underscored a point: Members of the Legislature’s capital investment committees are getting used to the marathon days that take them out across the state to see dozens of proposed public construction projects.

In a series of presentations that can seem like speed dating sessions, lawmakers hear from state agency heads, college leaders and community officials about

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