Reality Check: The Debate Over Food Stamps
Republicans in the U.S. House are promising to swiftly bring a food stamp bill up for a vote. That's after they stripped food stamps from the 5-year farm bill, and then failed to pass the farm bill, too.
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Republicans in the U.S. House are promising to swiftly bring a food stamp bill up for a vote. That's after they stripped food stamps from the 5-year farm bill, and then failed to pass the farm bill, too.
Former state Rep. Tom Emmer has an early lead in one aspect of the open-seat race in Minnesota's 6th Congressional District: The chase for campaign dollars.
Bear researcher Lynn Rogers is getting his wish to meet with Minnesota Gov. Mark Dayton as he makes a last-ditch appeal to keep his permits to radio-collar wild bears and place video cameras in their dens.
Gov. Mark Dayton's administration and the Legislature will have no shortage of projects to pick from when the devise next year's construction works borrowing package.
Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann is $30,000 away from extinguishing the debt from her ill-fated presidential campaign. A campaign filing Monday shows she has almost satisfied what had at one point been a debt north of $1 million.
Leading figures from Minnesota's state budget agency are headed to Wall Street for meetings with influential credit rating firms. The bond house trips are typical after a new state budget is adopted and before the state gets ready to issue long-term debt to pay for construction projects.
A political newcomer from Eagan is announcing plans to run for Congress as a Democrat in Minnesota's 2nd Congressional District. Thomas Craft is launching his campaign at a Saturday morning event in the State Capitol rotunda.
The fired Minnesota Senate aide alleging multiple sexual affairs at the Capitol says a sensitive list of names isn't the only evidence he has produced about relationships between legislators and staff.
Minnesota is getting a visit from the nation's education chief as he makes a pitch for expanded government spending on early childhood learning programs.
Apple juice is a popular drink for parents to give their kids, but the government is proposing new limits on the amount of arsenic found in apple juice.
A church piano was set aflame in an apparent arson spree in North Minneapolis overnight, according to police. At least nine fires were set in the rash within a half hour just after midnight.
Opponents of a federal ban on blood donations by men who have sex with men are demonstrating at a St. Paul blood bank. Organizer Zachary Fincher says about 20 to 40 men will try to donate blood at the Memorial Blood Centers' St. Paul location Friday.
President Barack Obama's nomination of B. Todd Jones to lead the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives has been sent to the full Senate. Obama picked Jones to lead the ATF following the mass shooting in December at a Connecticut elementary school where 20 children and six adults were killed.
For the first time, a fired Minnesota Senate operative has made detailed accusations central to his federal wrongful termination lawsuit: a list of other lawmakers and staff members who allegedly carried on affairs over the years without losing their jobs.
Republican State Senator John Pederson has joined the race to try to succeed Congresswoman Michele Bachmann in Minnesota's 6th District. "I have very strong beliefs about the future of our country," Pederson said. "I believe I have the qualifications that will enable me to effectively represent the interests of the people in the 6th Congressional District."
