Reporter Amy Forliti recaps first week in Kimberly Potter trial, the record state budget surplus, new nursing school at UST, a tour of Hennepin History Museum exhibit on 35W, Sharon Stiteler –aka Birdchick— gives us wintry birding suggestions, sports with Larry Fitzgerald, a Dominic Papatola essay, Jamaican Fruitcake featured on Relish, political panel talks surplus and polling