Minn. Stands To Lose $90M From Federal Cuts
Minnesota state budget officials say state programs stand to lose $90 million a year in federal funds due to across-the-board spending cuts.
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Minnesota state budget officials say state programs stand to lose $90 million a year in federal funds due to across-the-board spending cuts.
How's this for irony? A Minnesota commission created to determine which state agencies and boards are ripe for elimination is now on the chopping block itself.
Take a close look at your homeowner and auto insurance policies -- the cost may be going up. Minnesota lawmakers are considering a bill to add a $5 surcharge on every policy in the state.
Minnesota House Democrats are hoping to ease uncertainty created by a call to cut $150 million from state health and social service budgets by vowing increased payments to nursing homes and similar caregivers.
Lawmakers' plans to improve Minnesota's existing background check system for gun sales will come at a cost.
Minnesota is closer to legally reserving those swirling red, white and blue cylinders for licensed barbershops.
A group of Minnesota Republicans introduced a bill Wednesday to let gay couples join in civil unions, calling it an alternative to gay marriage that could end a corrosive fight on the issue. Gay marriage supporters quickly condemned the measure as inferior and unequal.
St. Paul's mayor is going after a third term. Democrat Chris Coleman announced Wednesday that he will ask voters this November to give him four more years to lead the capital city.
Minnesota lawmakers are pushing a new grant program that would give government rebates and bonuses to companies that upgrade facilities and add new jobs.
A top Minnesota Senate Democrat is out with his plan to chop property taxes by $150 million by having the state assume some school costs now picked up on the local level.
Among the budgetary items up for debate in the Legislature is whether or not to discontinue Minnesota Care on the eve of implementing the Federal Affordable Care Act, which take effect Jan. 1, 2014.
Minnesota lawmakers are trying to encourage a spirit of volunteerism at a Capitol press conference and through their own example.
North Dakota lawmakers negotiating final details of an anti-abortion measure killed an amendment Tuesday that threatened a three-year, $1.2 million federal sex education grant for North Dakota State University.
Minnesota state lawmakers waded back into details of the Vikings stadium project Tuesday, amid building concerns about the reliability of tax revenue from gambling to pay the state's share.
Minnesota Sen. Al Franken anticipates the federal immigration overhaul will contain the so-called DREAM Act that's geared toward speeding citizenship for young illegal immigrants who came to the U.S. as children.
