Lawmakers Introduce Child Care Affordability Act
Two state lawmakers say before the legislature focuses on a Vikings Stadium, they should make up for big cuts to child care. They just introduced the "Child Care Affordability Act."
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Two state lawmakers say before the legislature focuses on a Vikings Stadium, they should make up for big cuts to child care. They just introduced the "Child Care Affordability Act."
Two Republican lawmakers want Minnesota's cigarette tax to more than double as a way to deter smoking and to repay Minnesota schools for aid delays during recent state budgets.
Legislators are leaving the Capitol to learn lessons on working together.
State lawmakers will be back in St. Paul Tuesday to get the 2012 legislative session rolling.
Child care union organizers on Thursday launched a tough offensive against state Republican lawmakers. The union organizers accused lawmakers of a deliberate campaign to kill a unionization vote.
Nearly 380,000 veterans call Minnesota home, and Minnesota's official remembrance ceremony Friday focused on both honoring and helping them.
There's frustration at the Capitol over a new stadium for the Minnesota Vikings. Gov. Mark Dayton is accusing key lawmakers of dragging their feet.
A Minnesota man accused of wielding a knife inside a bar before being restrained by several South Dakota lawmakers appeared in court Tuesday to face charges that could land him in prison for up to 15 years.
Cars and trucks would be permitted to go around bicycles and other slow-moving vehicles in no-passing zones under a bill the state Assembly is scheduled to consider.
The Vikings stadium debate is rallying this week. Lawmakers postponed a meeting they were supposed to have on Monday but Gov. Mark Dayton still wants to hear from them.
One of the Legislature's most liberal Democrats and one of its most conservative Republicans are joining the Minnesota Vikings stadium fray with what they are calling an "alternative stadium plan."
Iron Range lawmakers want the DNR and Minnesota attorney general to sue the U.S. Forest Service over its management of a fire burning in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area.
About a third of Minnesota school districts are planning to ask voters to approve local levies this fall, and now one prominent Republican lawmaker says he plans an unprecedented campaign against some school leaders who plead poverty.
Gov. Mark Dayton and key Republican lawmakers are getting around the state as they focus on creating jobs.
One of the 18 Minnesota House members who got full retroactive pay after the state's government shutdown is now planning to take a cut in a future paycheck, while two others say they already donated the money without publicizing their charity.
Eighteen Minnesota House members who declined paychecks during last month's state government shutdown went back for the money.
The spiraling cost of confining Minnesota's most dangerous sex offenders after prison is forcing state lawmakers to confront a once politically untouchable program. But they're doing so by sticking counties with a bigger bill.
Minnesota's congressional delegation is split over how to avoid a potential U.S. debt default.
Minnesota's state government shutdown slid toward the three-week mark on Monday as key Republican legislators and members of Democratic Gov. Mark Dayton's administration scurried to translate a handshake budget deal into bills that can pass the GOP-controlled Legislature.
The Minnesota Capitol will be open to the public when lawmakers return for a special session to end the state's government shutdown.
WCCO-TV's Reality Check reported last week that an overwhelming majority of Minnesota lawmakers, Democrats and Republicans, are getting paid during the shutdown. Now, one legislator says there's something wrong with that.
Gov. Mark Dayton will hit the road Tuesday morning to tout his budget plan and to criticize Republican lawmakers.
While thousands of Minnesota employees go without paychecks because the state government is shut down, many lawmakers are still being paid. And the list of workers whose services are deemed "essential" includes the governor's housekeeper and his personal chef.
Another step backwards for Minnesota lawmakers trying to negotiate a budget deal to end the government shutdown, now in it's sixth day.
Republican leaders and the governor will try again next week to resolve the budget impasse. Both sides said a few days away from each other might be a good thing over the Fourth of July holiday.
