Minn. Senate Committee Backs Jury Bias Ban
A Minnesota Senate committee has passed a bill to prohibit lawyers from dismissing potential jurors based solely on their sexual orientation or marital status.
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A Minnesota Senate committee has passed a bill to prohibit lawyers from dismissing potential jurors based solely on their sexual orientation or marital status.
Minneapolis City Council member Gary Schiff says he will formally announce his intentions to run for the city's soon-to-be open post for mayor.
A Minnesota House committee is gearing up for three days of hearings next week to take testimony on proposed changes to the state's gun laws.
Former Republican Senate Majority Leader Amy Koch is breaking her silence about her resignation.
About two dozen Minnesota cities and counties whose sales taxes piggyback on the state's would see a gusher of new money if Gov. Mark Dayton's proposed sales tax expansion prevails.
Gov. Mark Dayton's administration said Monday that what was initially billed as $225 million in spending cuts in his budget blueprint is actually $58 million less.
Here's a look at current local sales taxes
In the coming weeks, Gov. Mark Dayton will be trying to sell his new tax plan. The plan would reduce the current sales tax rate from 6.8 percent to 5.5 percent, while increasing the number of goods and services that will be taxed.
Former Minnesota Senate Majority Leader Amy Koch is striking back at top Republicans over her 2011 resignation after an affair with a staff member, accusing them of pledging to give her time to talk to her family and then promptly leaking word of the affair to media.
President Barack Obama has chosen longtime trusted adviser and national security expert Denis McDonough as his fifth chief of staff.
Michael Brodkorb's wife says the former staff aid for the Minnesota Senate is improving after being critically injured in a car crash late Wednesday night.
House Democratic and Republican leaders have come to early agreement on the state budget: Both want the final product to repay IOUs to Minnesota schools faster than Gov. Mark Dayton has proposed.
Gov. Mark Dayton says there is no government money right now to build high-speed rail lines in Minnesota.
Gov. Mark Dayton's administration says it will release an "exhaustive" list later Thursday identifying precisely what would be subject to an expanded sales tax.
On Thursday, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta announced the Pentagon will lift its ban on women serving in direct combat.
