Deportation Concerns Sweep Minnesota's Southeast Asian Population
Many of the Minnesota residents who came here from Southeast Asia could be impacted by discussions going on right now in the federal government.
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Many of the Minnesota residents who came here from Southeast Asia could be impacted by discussions going on right now in the federal government.
Trump already has lashed out at GOP leaders in Congress over the lack of wall funding in a short-term spending bill that passed the Senate on Wednesday.
Scott Fitzgerald says he doesn't see support for taking the federal money right now, "but there's a lot of moving parts but I don't want to be presumptuous and rule it out."
Minnesota Gov. Mark Dayton is recommending pay hikes for top public officials around the state – just weeks before he leaves office. Some of those government salaries, covered by taxpayers, are already hundreds of thousands of dollars a year.
The Senate late Wednesday approved a stopgap spending measure that will keep the government open until February without President Trump's requested $5 billion for a border wall. Mr. Trump has recently said he would be "proud" to shut down the government to get funding for the border wall.
And the president's complaining about higher interest rates isn't the only problem the central bank faces.
The house is located on the northeastern stretch of Lake of the Isles near downtown Minneapolis.
The Senate voted Tuesday night to approve a sweeping criminal justice overhaul supported by President Trump.
Minnesota Gov.-elect Tim Walz has named a former speaker of the Minnesota House as his transportation commissioner and is keeping the budget commissioner of outgoing Gov. Mark Dayton.
In a surprise development, former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn has asked that his sentence be delayed.
President Donald Trump has agreed to shut down his family's embattled Trump Foundation, following investigators' allegations the charity misused funds by directing them to Mr. Trump or his businesses.
Garrett was in the Twin Cities Monday to speak to the Economic Club of Minnesota.
Minnesota Gov-elect Tim Walz is preparing to announce his first round of state agency heads who will serve in his administration.
Democratic Gov. Mark Dayton says his proudest accomplishments in his 40 years of politics came late in his career: restoring state government to financial health and funding all-day kindergarten.
The controversial "text tax" had originally been introduced as a means to fund programs that make phone service accessible to low-income residents.
