WSJ Links, Friday

Section M (Mansion): I generally don't read

Section D (Arena):

• Kenny Chesney has sold more tickets than anyone else in the last 10 years. More than Springsteen, more than U2, more than the Stones.
• An oral history of the Creedence Clearwater Revival.
• "Arrested Development" returns; on Netflix.  See earlier post on Netflix. 
• A walk on the wild side with Liberace.

Section C (Money & Investing):

• Hulu dance partners should cut it: after years of being a dance-floor rival, Hulu may soon be the belle of the pay-TV ball.

Section B (Marketplace):

• Trains leave pipeline in lurch: growing use of railroads to ferry crude oil leads to cool reception for Kinder Morgan's $2 billion project. 

• A $2 billion pipeline project intended to ship oil from West Texas's booming oil fields to California has failed to pique the interest of several big refiners in the Golden State. The culprit: the growing popularity of railroads.

Kinder Morgan Energy Partners LP's 277,000 barrel-a-day Freedom pipeline, proposed in April, would be the first to bring light, sweet oil produced in Texas's Permian Basin to the fuel-hungry Los Angeles market.

That would give refiners in California, which now partly complement the state's declining oil production with expensive crude imports from Alaska, Ecuador and other far-flung nations, a direct shot at the relatively cheap crude squeezed out of shale formations through hydraulic fracturing. Access to that bountiful crude has already boosted the profits of Midwestern and even some Gulf Coast refiners.

• ATT to add a "below-the-line 61-cent fee. 

An AT&T spokeswoman stressed the similar practices of other carriers, noting that customers were given 30 days notice about the fee and its details are included on every bill. The fee covers "certain expenses, such as interconnection and cell-site rents and maintenance."

The new AT&T fee goes on top of a "regulatory cost recovery charge" that averages about 50 cents per line at the carrier, in order to cover the expense of complying with government regulations. AT&T began adding that to its bill "approximately 10 years ago," it said.

Section A:

• Minnesota raising taxes on the wealthy.

Minnesota's move to raise $2.1 billion in new taxes, largely from the wealthy, to fund government programs puts it among a handful of states controlled by Democrats that are adopting more liberal fiscal policies at a time when many Republican-dominated statehouses are pushing to cut taxes.
The Minnesota tax package, which Gov. Mark Dayton signed into law Thursday, aims to raise the revenue largely for expanding early-childhood education programs and freezing tuitions at state universities, as well as closing the state's budget deficit and funding some jobs initiatives and property-tax refunds. 

What little I saw of it, I thought was great: have the wealthy pay more for more state spending and cut property taxes. What's not to like. Meanwhile, North Dakota is open for business.