Minn. Burns Future Tobacco Cash For Budget Fix Now
Minnesota's government is about to give up $1.1 billion in future payments from tobacco companies so it can get about half as much money now for a temporary budget fix.
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Minnesota's government is about to give up $1.1 billion in future payments from tobacco companies so it can get about half as much money now for a temporary budget fix.
The next presidential election is still exactly a year away but you might not know it, judging from the amount of campaign activity.
GOP presidential hopeful Michele Bachmann says too many Republicans aspire to be "frugal socialists" and the party can't afford a nominee who isn't a rock-solid conservative.
Former House Speaker Margaret Anderson Kelliher will lead a 15-member state task force examining ways to expand access to broadband Internet across Minnesota.
President Barack Obama's re-election campaign now has a Minnesota outpost.
Occupy Minnesota protesters moved around Minneapolis Sunday looking for a place to build a longhouse to hold their winter meetings. But at each location, authorities told them to stop construction.
Occupy Minnesota plans to build a longhouse structure on Government Plaza Sunday afternoon, protest organizers said.
It was a long and dramatic week at the State Capitol on the Vikings stadium front. Negotiations continued between Gov. Mark Dayton, lawmakers and Vikings officials on a plan to come up with a new stadium and exactly how to pay for it.
Republican presidential hopeful Ron Paul pushed his idea of smaller, no-nonsense government as he campaigned in St. Cloud Saturday.
The Occupy Wall Street movement moved to West St. Paul Saturday.
Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul tells a crowd in St. Cloud it's time to reverse course.
One year to go until Election Day and the Republican presidential field is deeply unsettled, leaving President Barack Obama only to guess who his opponent will be. But the race's contours are starting to come into view.
It's the little clause that could keep the Vikings in the Dome for another year. It's the little clause that could put off the painstaking debate on the Vikings stadium for another year.
Former Minnesota Gov. Jesse Ventura is so upset by the dismissal of his airport security lawsuit that he threatened Friday to apply for dual citizenship so he can spend more time in his beloved Mexico — or run for president of what he labeled "the Fascist States of America."
Occupy Minnesota protesters say Hennepin County is trying to force them out of Government Plaza in downtown Minneapolis.
