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Minnesota legislators could vote Thursday to restore the House and Senate operating budgets, after Gov. Mark Dayton vetoed them in May. A conference committee approved a bill Wednesday night that would designate more than $64 million for both the House and Senate, allowing them to keep functioning for two years. The funding would be retroactive to July 1. Both chambers need to vote on the measure, and Dayton must sign off on it.
3M resolved the case on Feb. 20, just as it was about to go to trial in state court. The settlement comes in the form of what 3M calls a grant to the state for water quality and sustainability.
U.S. Rep. Rick Nolan, representing Minnesota's 8th Congressional District, announced Friday, Feb. 9, that he would not seek re-election and instead will retire at the end of his current term this year.
Minnesota's top lawmakers posed for a selfie and talked up their strong working relationship Tuesday as they previewed the coming legislative session. The chummy behavior was in sharp contrast to the past eight months of fighting each other in court.
Minnesota voters were choosing successors Monday for two legislators who resigned amid sexual harassment allegations, as Democrats sought to remain in striking distance of taking back the state Senate and add a solidly Republican state House seat to their list of upsets leading up to the midterms. The rare Monday special elections were triggered by the resignations of GOP Rep. Tony Cornish and Democratic Sen. Dan Schoen late last year after they were accused by several women of sexual harassment.
Mark Dayton probably will never land on the cover of Time magazine, in contrast to previous noteworthy Minnesota governors, such as the athletically charismatic Wendell Anderson and the outrageously flamboyant Jesse Ventura . Yet Dayton has been as impactful as either, and for a longer time.
Government shutdowns - evidence of how polarized Democrats and Republicans in office have become - are distressingly frequent news. The shutdown produced by U.S. Senate Democrats early in 2018 makes a first for them.
With Gov. Mark Dayton not seeking re-election this year, a wide-open race to succeed him will take center stage as precinct caucuses mark the official start of the campaign season across Minnesota on Tuesday night, Feb. 6. Both the Democratic-Farmer-Labor and Republican parties will conduct non-binding straw polls for governor that will test the early grassroots support for announced candidates. Caucus-goers also will start the processes for endorsing each party's candidates for two U.S. Senate seats, eight congressional seats, 134 seats in the Minnesota House of Representatives, plus state auditor, secretary of state and attorney general.
An opioid epidemic that has claimed the lives of hundreds of Minnesotans. A giant backlog of uninvestigated maltreatment complaints at senior care homes.
Jordan See and Austin Benz - garbed in matching shirts depicting a sweet little cow with a Band-Aid on her tummy and pink bow on her head - chat on a recent day about an uncommon condition of which they are becoming experts: Omphalocele. When the young couple, expecting their first child, initially heard the term, "I could barely pronounce it," said See, now 28 weeks pregnant, at their Mountain Iron apartment.
A top adviser says former Gov. Tim Pawlenty has scheduled a meeting with his inner circle as he nears a decision on whether to run for governor. Pawlenty's possibly entry has been the source of speculation for months, and would likely be the immediate favorite among Republicans if he gets in.
He was there to talk about the current state of the Minnesota Legislature. But Sen. Gary Dahms said it was hard to make any predictions about the upcoming session.
Politicians - good ones, at least - make their bones by knowing which way the wind is blowing. And right now, it's a gale force gust right in the faces of Republicans.
President Eric Kaler of the University of Minnesota says on Tuesday, Jan. 16, 2018, that now is the time to repair buildings on campuses around the state.
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Minnesota Gov. Mark Dayton recently announced the establishment of a Governor's Task Force on Housing. Dayton called housing a for Minnesota families, and said wages for lower- and middle-income people have remained stagnant while rental rates have gone up.
There will be a record number of women serving in the U.S. Senate once Democrat Tina Smith, the outgoing lieutenant governor of Minnesota, is sworn-in Wednesday as a U.S. senator representing that state. Smith's addition to the Senate brings the total number of female senators to 22, according to Rutgers University's Center for American Women and Politics.
Sen. Al Franken looks at his wife Franni Bryson, before walking to the Senate chamber to announce his resignation on December 7, 2017 on Capitol Hill. Minnesota Democrat Al Franken officially resigned from the Senate on Tuesday after announcing he would step down last month amid multiple allegations of sexual misconduct.