Dayton Has Successful Lower Back Surgery At Mayo Clinic
Minnesota Gov. Mark Dayton has undergone elective lower back surgery at Mayo Clinic in Rochester. Dayton's office says the procedure lasted about three hours Monday and was successful.
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Minnesota Gov. Mark Dayton has undergone elective lower back surgery at Mayo Clinic in Rochester. Dayton's office says the procedure lasted about three hours Monday and was successful.
Gov. Mark Dayton named the top attorney in his office Monday to take over the state agency that manages care for the poor and disabled as well as runs the state's embattled sex offender program.
Gov. Mark Dayton's office said Sunday that he will undergo elective lower back surgery on Monday at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester. Officials say it's a similar procedure to one Dayton had done three years ago.
Minnesota's huge budget surplus for 2016 has state lawmakers scrambling to figure out what to do with it. A large part of the surplus will go to a budget reserve, and the rest of it will likely go to be a combination of tax cuts and spending.
Gov. Mark Dayton named his human services commissioner to a spot on the Minnesota Court of Appeals on Friday, leaving a vacancy at the top of the state's largest agency. Commissioner Lucinda Jesson was named to one of two vacancies on the Court of Appeals, joining the bench with Tracy Smith, deputy general counsel at the University of Minnesota.
U.S. Rep. Don Beyer, D-Va., and other elected officials expressed solidarity with the region's Muslim population following an appearance at a northern Virginia mosque Friday. Beyer was joined by District of Columbia Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton, U.S. Rep. Betty McCollum, D-Minn., and state officials at prayer services at the Dar al-Hijrah mosque in Falls Church.
The cost of legal and professional services in the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis bankruptcy case has topped $5 million.
If you take a close look at your cans and plastic bottles, you will notice that some states offer money back when recyclables are returned to a store or collection location. So, why is Minnesota not one of those states?
World leaders are debating climate change issues in Paris. In St. Paul, city officials are taking a leading role in the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions.
Minnesota lawmakers from both parties agree that a nearly $1.9 billion budget surplus is good news. They just disagree on how to spend it.
Sen. Al Franken has a book deal for a memoir that will cover his career from "Saturday Night Live" to his years in Washington. Twelve, an imprint of Hachette Book Group, told The Associated Press on Thursday that the Minnesota Democrat's book is scheduled for 2017 and is currently untitled.
Gov. Mark Dayton is laying out a high-speed Internet marker by proposing a $100 million infusion to help bring broadband to more rural Minnesota areas.
Gov. Mark Dayton says his bid for a gas tax increase for road projects likely is "dead" given an ample state budget surplus.
New data from the U.S. Census Bureau shows the median household income fell in two-thirds of Wisconsin counties between 2009 and 2014.
Minnesota officials project nearly $1.9 billion state budget surplus through June 2017.
