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The Minnesota House finished up a week of budget cutting with a public safety package that slices spending on prisons, legal services and crime victim programs while also toughening penalties for sex offenders.
Bills that would ban human cloning are moving forward in the state legislature. The bills would also limit embryonic stem cell research and make cloning of embryonic cells illegal.
The Minnesota Vikings believe they're getting close to a final stadium bill to be presented to state lawmakers. Lawmakers are well past the midway point of their session.
A public safety package that would toughen penalties for sex offenders while cutting spending on prisons, legal services, crime victim programs and the state's anti-discrimination office has cleared the House.
A Wisconsin judge ruled Thursday the state's divisive new collective bargaining law had not taken effect, and officials in Republican Gov. Scott Walker's administration say he plans to comply with the ruling and to halt preparations to begin deducting money from public workers' paychecks.
Some members of the State Employees Union are warning businesses in Wisconsin to either support collective bargaining for public employees or face a boycott.
Minnesota's chief elections officer is going before Congress to testify about voter turnout.
One of the first victims of Washington's new tough-on-spending culture is a historic preservation program that saved the flag that inspired "The Star-Spangled Banner" and preserved thousands of other fragile national treasures.
A Minnesota Vikings official stressed the various ways in which the team gives back to the state as he debated other experts Wednesday about whether public funding should be used to build a new stadium for the NFL team.
A health and welfare package that would slash projected spending by $1.6 billion over two years cleared the Minnesota on Wednesday.
A cost-cutting bill that freezes government worker pay for two years, alters state employee health insurance and slices budgets for most agencies has cleared the Minnesota Senate.
Presidential hopeful Tim Pawlenty is planning to give a keynote address during a visit to northeast Ohio, a highly contested swing state in presidential politics.
A Republican plan to overhaul Minnesota's health care programs and cut into services for the poor and disabled has cleared the Senate.
The Republican House passed a sweeping education bill that would change funding for every school in Minnesota. It would also change the way teachers and schools are evaluated.
Former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty will be among the speakers at an April 15 tea party rally in Boston.
