Brewing Budget Deal Spares Health Program, Defers Tax Cuts
Minnesota's legislative leaders have promised they're making progress on a budget deal. Now they have something to show for it.
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Minnesota's legislative leaders have promised they're making progress on a budget deal. Now they have something to show for it.
Gov. Mark Dayton wants more money for schools and early education in an emerging budget deal.
Minnesota lawmakers are eying a March 8 start date for next year's legislative session. The plan would start the session after a state budget forecast is released in late February.
Federal Judge Donovan Frank appointed Court Monitor David Ferleger to make sure Minnesota follows orders to fix serious abuses of disabled patients. And he acts as a court-appointed consultant, making sure the state keeps a promise to reform Minnesota's sex offender treatment program.
Legislative leaders say they're making slow but steady progress on hammering out a deal for the state's next budget. Top House and Senate lawmakers were expected to resume private negotiations at Gov. Mark Dayton's residence Thursday with the goal of passing a budget by Monday's deadline. The two sides have met for hours every day this week but said little about the content of those talks.
The Minnesota Lottery's experiment with paperless, instant-play tickets sold over the Internet and other platforms will come to an end because Gov. Mark Dayton decided Thursday against vetoing legislation suspending the games.
The national right-to-die group Final Exit Network Inc. was convicted Thursday of assisting in the suicide of a Minnesota woman who took her life in 2007 after years of suffering with chronic pain.
Defenders of some Minnesota men accused of trying to join ISIS say the FBI entrapped them. The government charged four men and two of their friends with trying to go overseas: Mohamed Abdihamid Farah, 21; Adnan Abdihamid Farah, 19; Abdurahman Yasin Daud, 21; Zacharia Yusuf Abdurahman, 19; Hanad Mustafe Musse, 19; and Guled Ali Omar, 20.
The colorful Tony Cornish is passing on the chance to run for Congress. The Republican state legislator said Wednesday he is happy at the state Capitol and wouldn't try to trade up to Washington. He had been mulling a challenge to Democratic Rep. Tim Walz.
Discussions over how to spend $40 billion-plus of Minnesota taxpayer money have reached a sensitive phase where negotiators are keeping mum about the headway they're making. With less than a week to get an on-time budget passed, leading House Republicans and Senate Democrats were expected back at Gov. Mark Dayton's official residence Wednesday for a fresh round of talks.
A state official overseeing Capitol renovations says failing to wrap up the legislative session by Monday would be "catastrophic" for the project. Top lawmakers have shown few signs of progress toward crafting a new budget.
At least one seat in the Minnesota Senate will change hands next year. State Sen. Julianne Ortman announced Tuesday she won't seek a fifth term. The Chanhassen Republican says she's bowing out early to give other candidates a stronger shot.
Minnesota budget negotiations entered a holding pattern Tuesday, with each side urging the other to take the first step to bridge an enormous divide over tax cuts and transportation funding that has narrowed little through days of private meetings.
Minnesota budget negotiations entered a holding pattern Tuesday, with each side urging the other to take the first step to bridge an enormous divide over tax cuts and transportation funding that has narrowed little through days of private meetings.
Blue Earth businessman Jim Hagedorn wants a 2016 rematch against the Democratic congressman who beat him last year. Hagedorn announced another run for Minnesota's 1st Congressional District on Tuesday.
