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Gov. Mark Dayton plans to light the Minnesota governor's residence blue to honor victims of a weekend bombing in Somalia that killed hundreds of people. In a statement, Dayton says many of those killed or wounded in the attack in Somalia's capital of Mogadishu have friends and family in Minnesota.
A growing number of communities now are ditching the traditional Columbus Day holiday in favor of Indigenous People's Day, which, supporters say, is meant to promote an accurate telling of the United States' history and commemorate the resilience of its original inhabitants against European settlers. Just this year, 20 cities and one county have adopted some proclamation or ordinance declaring the second Monday in October Indigenous People's Day.
The governors of Minnesota and North Dakota have scheduled a meeting to discuss the future of a flood control project in the Fargo-Moorhead area. A federal judge last month stopped construction of the $2.2 billion Red River diversion project, over complaints that the Fargo-Moorhead Diversion Authority and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers did not obtain the necessary permits from Minnesota.
Apple CEO Tim Cook told Iowa officials "we admire what you guys have accomplished" in creating an environment to attract job-creating companies like Apple and Amazon to the state. The head of Apple Inc. stood on the steps of the Iowa State Capitol this summer and delivered the kind of speech that makes some Minnesotans wince.
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Attorneys for the Minnesota Legislature filed a report this week with the Minnesota Supreme Court, saying the Legislature will have to start laying off employees and shutting down by December if no agreement is reached between Gov. Mark Dayton and the Legislature over the legislative funding Dayton vetoed. The Supreme Court had earlier issued a preliminary ruling saying Dayton's line item veto is constitutional, but ordering the two sides to go through mediation to settle their dispute.
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Minnesota is at risk of losing hundreds of millions of dollars in federal funding for the state's health care program for the working poor as it pursues a waiver aimed at lowering premiums for people buying insurance through the state exchange. Gov. Mark Dayton wrote Tuesday to Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price urging President Donald Trump's administration to "reverse this very destructive financial penalty" to MinnesotaCare, the state's program that covers those who make too much to qualify for Medicaid but can't afford private coverage.
The Minnesota Supreme Court acted in the interests of Minnesotans where the governor and Legislature could not when it ordered mediation in a dispute that threatened to make Minnesota government dysfunctional. The court gave the Legislature and the governor a reprieve of sorts to come to compromise Minnesotans expected five months ago.
Matt Dean, an architect and a state representative with strong conservative credentials, is bringing an understated style to his bid for governor that will test whether GOP voters can still be won over by a soft-spoken approach to politics. Despite a persona that's pretty much the opposite of the current Republican president, Dean has emerged as an early leader in the still-forming GOP field.
Jimmy Carter never fully regained Bill Clinton's trust after Mr. Carter's administration sent Cuban refugees to Arkansas in 1980. Mr. Clinton criticized George H. W. Bush for tanking the American economy.
David Soto was downcast after news the government is phasing out a program that has shielded him from deportation for almost five years. But before long, the 32-year-old from Eagan was asking himself: What can I do? Within hours of last week's announcement that the Trump administration is ending Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, a diverse cast of Minnesotans with a stake in the program sprang to action.
A handful of Republican women considering major political bids in Minnesota in 2018 would be looking to buck a daunting historical trend: Their party has never chosen a woman to run for governor or U.S. senator. So far, the nine Republicans to join the open race for governor in 2018 are men.
Several hundred people rallied in downtown Minneapolis against President Donald Trump's decision to wind down the program that protects young immigrants who were mostly raised in the U.S. but lack legal status. Demonstrators marched and carried signs late Tuesday in support of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, also known as DACA.
Pat Lunemann struggles to find employees to milk the 775 cows on his dairy farm near Clarissa, Minn. It is labor that legal immigrants from poor countries will take to gain a financial foothold in the U.S., but that many American-born workers in a vibrant Minnesota economy with low unemployment don't want.
GOP legislators in 20 U.S. statehouses proposed - and six legislatures approved - new restrictions on the right to assemble and protest in 2017. Report: 'Anti-protester' bills gain traction in state legislatures GOP legislators in 20 U.S. statehouses proposed - and six legislatures approved - new restrictions on the right to assemble and protest in 2017.
In today's Star Tribune Stephen Montemayor takes up the fate of the Minnesota edition of the Obama administration's Countering Violent Extremism Program. The Obama administration's approach to the problem of radical Islamic terrorism was fraught with stupidity and euphemism.