5 Minnesota Freshmen Representatives Sworn In At Nation's Capitol
The Democrats are taking majority control of the U.S. House of Representatives Thursday.
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The Democrats are taking majority control of the U.S. House of Representatives Thursday.
Minnesota campaign finance officials may push to require political groups to name donors who pay for issue advertisements that don't directly advocate for or against a candidate or issue.
Sen. Amy Klobuchar is reportedly nearing a decision over whether or not she'll run for president.
He said the community meetings he's already held in Duluth and Albert Lea are giving him insights into how best to approach those issues.
About 219,000 Minnesota workers are getting the pay hike. The minimum wage for small businesses is now $8.01 an hour. And for large employers it goes up to $9.86 an hour. But many workers think it is still too low.
It's a Washington stalemate felt in every corner of the country.
With the freshmen representatives comes a loss of leadership and some clout in Washington, but the loss of seniority is offset by one Minnesota congressman rising to a powerful committee chairmanship, and another entering Congress as a nationally known figure.
A new petition calls on Congress to give the Northwest Angle of Minnesota back to Canada. The initiative was submitted to the White House's petitions page on Sunday, but the issue has been debated over for decades.
Wisconsin saw the defeat of Gov. Scott Walker, a teenage girl mysteriously missing and a summer of storms in 2018.
Minnesota legislators passed seven new laws that will be implemented on January 1st, 2019. And while some changes may go unnoticed by the majority of Minnesotans, others may directly impact you and your family.
As of right now, 10 states already allow for recreational marijuana, along with the District of Columbia.
If you think this year has felt like a political rollercoaster ride, you might want to fasten your seat belts even tighter for next year.
There's been a lot of talk at the Capitol about a $1.5 billion budget surplus, but lawmakers are already worrying about how to plug a $700 million hole. That's because a tax on health care providers that helps fund Medicaid and the state's separate MinnesotaCare program is slated to go away at the end of the year.
Pink Pistols, an LGBT gun rights group with chapters in dozens of cities across the nation, has been around in Minnesota for nearly two decades.
Attorney General-elect Keith Ellison announced Friday that John Keller will serve as the second-ranking attorney in the office. Keller has worked at the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota since 1998.
