Minnesota State Health Plan Among Most Generous
A new report from the Pew Charitable Trusts says Minnesota state employees get 94 percent of their health care costs covered by insurance.
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A new report from the Pew Charitable Trusts says Minnesota state employees get 94 percent of their health care costs covered by insurance.
There's close attention being paid to the Republican governor's race. The four-way race is the most hotly contested primary in 20 years. Hennepin County Commissioner Jeff Johnson has the official party endorsement, and on Tuesday night, we'll see how much that matters.
Minnesota Republicans were picking candidates for governor and Senate in primaries Tuesday to finalize nominations for a party trying to climb back into power after years of Democratic dominance.
A number of political observers and politicians alike took umbrage with a Minnesota politician's response to news of the death of comedian and actor Robin Williams.
Republicans hoping to deny Democratic Gov. Mark Dayton a second term first must settle on a nominee in a primary Tuesday without a runaway favorite. Hennepin County Commissioner Jeff Johnson had the party's endorsement that he hopes will pay off amid an expectedly light turnout.
Minnesota Secretary of State Mark Ritchie is estimating a low turnout for Tuesday's statewide primary election. Out of 3.1 million Minnesota voters, only 10-15 percent will turn out, according to Ritchie.
The first of several Minnesota roundtables on oil train safety has focused on keeping freight lines operating safely, efficiently and with as little disruption as more oil from neighboring North Dakota crosses the state.
A federal judge on Monday denied motions for the immediate release of a man from the state's sex offender program and the transfer of the only woman in it to a less restrictive facility, but said he will expedite a class-action challenge to the program's constitutionality and set it for trial later this year.
Minnesotans — at least a few of them, anyway — will take a short break from summer to tend to Tuesday's primary election. Here are 5 things to know about the election
The Republican candidates hoping to unseat Gov. Mark Dayton later this fall are in a last-minute scramble to lock up votes. The four major candidates worked cafe counters, manned phone banks and surfed talk radio Monday in a primary that has no breakaway favorite.
During his weekly radio address to the nation, President Obama explained more about the operations he authorized in Iraq. The Republican Response was given by U.S. Senate candidate from Minnesota, Mike McFadden.
Voters in Minnesota will be going to the polls in just two days to cast their primary ballots in the U.S. Senate race, the Governor's race on the Republican side and a surprising State Auditor's race on the DFL side.
Perhaps the best evidence of Tom Emmer's commanding position in his campaign for Congress is this: He's not allowed to wear his rollerblades.
When Rebecca Otto scored her first political win, few Democrats reveled in it more than Matt Entenza. That was 2003, when Otto snatched a Republican-held legislative seat in a special election with the help of a Democratic House caucus led by Entenza. Back then he proclaimed Otto's win "a political earthquake."
The competition is fierce to be one of two medical cannabis manufacturers in Minnesota. Legislation passed last session created a new process allowing seriously ill Minnesota's to get and use medical marijuana to treat certain conditions.
