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Minnesota Legislature passes next state budget in special session, averting government shutdown
The Legislature approved the remaining pieces of the next state budget overnight Tuesday during a special session that lasted ...
Minnesota’s slain Democratic leader saw liberal victories, then brokered a budget deal out of power
State Rep. Melissa Hortman, the House’s Democratic leader and former speaker, was shot to death early Saturday.
Minnesota Legislature passes $66 billion budget, averting government shutdown
The Minnesota Legislature passed the final bills comprising the state’s two-year, $66 billion budget — an 8% decrease from ...
How the most closely divided Legislature in Minnesota history came to pass a state budget
In the end, Minnesota lawmakers managed to pass a $66 billion two-year budget through the most closely divided Legislature in ...
Minnesota rep killed made headlines days earlier over vote on benefits for illegal aliens
Minnesota Democratic Rep. Melissa Hortman, fatally shot in a targeted attack, recently made headlines as the only House ...
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How the Minnesota Legislature’s struggle to complete a state budget measures up: Exceptional, terrible, or neither?
Budget delays have been common across the country amid lousy economic forecasts, federal uncertainty and other factors.
A teenager with a job making burritos became a powerful Minnesota lawmaker who trained service dogs
Melissa Hortman's power as a Democratic leader to shape the course of a deeply divided Minnesota Legislature was a far cry ...
Minnesota budget deal cuts health care for adults who entered the US illegally
Adults living in the U.S. illegally will be excluded from a state-run health care program under a budget deal that the ...
Minnesota police name suspect in shootings of Democratic state politicians
A manhunt is under way for Vance Luther Boelter after two Democratic state politicians were shot, leaving Representative ...
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Why Minnesota’s budget surplus could have been (and actually sorta was) way more than $7.7 billion
It’s a lot, but it could have been more. State budget writers, policymakers and frankly anyone or any group with a need for something out of Minnesota’s next state budget are still gushing ...