Minn. House Approves Deep Cuts In Health Spending
The Minnesota House approved deep cuts to health and welfare programs in an early-morning vote Thursday, setting the stage for budget talks between GOP lawmakers and Democratic Gov. Mark Dayton.
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The Minnesota House approved deep cuts to health and welfare programs in an early-morning vote Thursday, setting the stage for budget talks between GOP lawmakers and Democratic Gov. Mark Dayton.
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.
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.
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.
The Minnesota House passed an education funding bill early Wednesday that increases per-pupil payments to public schools while also making major changes to how schools operate, including ending the current teacher tenure system and banning teacher strikes.
If some lawmakers have their way, a teacher's future could depend on how well their students grade-out.
Republican legislators think they have a way to keep Minnesotans on welfare from spending their benefits on booze, smokes and lottery tickets: They'd keep them from taking more than $20 in benefits in cash.
A House panel has passed a Republican-backed tax bill that would cut income taxes for Minnesotans, but could lead to property tax increases.
Old battles over state borrowing for construction projects are revving up anew as Minnesota House Republicans seek to cancel previous authorization for a new Minneapolis Planetarium, rail projects and other things.
The Minnesota House has voted to toughen a state law to deter people from harming or killing public safety dogs like those police use.
The newest member of the Minnesota House has officially taken office.
Democrat Carly Melin is leading in a special election to represent a Minnesota House district on the Iron Range.
A Democrat running in a special election for a northern Minnesota House seat is criticizing an ad that shows a hunter sighting along a gun with the line "take your best shot."
A Hibbing attorney has won a Democratic primary for a Minnesota House seat last held by former state Rep. Tony Sertich.
The Republican caucus that took control of the Minnesota House last November spent only about two-thirds as much as Democrats did.
Democrats on the Iron Range go to the polls Tuesday in a special primary election for an open Minnesota House seat.
Three weeks after taking office, Minnesota Republicans passed a major budget cutting bill; a $1 billion measure touching almost every Minnesotan in some specific way.
One thing you can't find on any Minnesota state website? How much your Minnesota lawmaker takes every year in "per diem" payments.
A move to undo Minnesota's 17-year-old ban on new nuclear power plants easily cleared its first committee Tuesday as Republicans who run the Legislature make the proposal a priority.
