Reality Check: Can Bachmann Still Run In The 6th District?
Minnesota Republican Congresswoman Michele Bachmann says she has not decided whether she will move into the 6th Congressional District she has represented since 2006.
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Minnesota Republican Congresswoman Michele Bachmann says she has not decided whether she will move into the 6th Congressional District she has represented since 2006.
Minnesota Vikings owner Zygi Wilf held a private meeting with Governor Mark Dayton on Tuesday. But there is still no Vikings stadium deal despite weeks of speculation that a deal was imminent.
Republicans are calling it one way to stop welfare fraud: It's a bill requiring benefit cards for welfare recipients to include Photo ID. The bill will also double the waiting period from 30 to 60 days before a new resident gets welfare.
Minnesota Democrats are accusing Republicans of using state staff and equipment for political benefit.
The Minnesota Civil Liberties Union (ACLU-MN) is offering as a reward for anyone who can show proof of a voter impersonation case that happened in the past 10 years. And the MCLU brought the money with them: $1,000 in $1 bills.
Ramsey County leaders are back on the offense in the stadium game with a new funding proposal to get the Arden Hills stadium site back on the legislature's radar. The only problem: The Vikings don't like it.
Ron Paul has invested days of campaigning and money for television ads ahead of caucuses in Minnesota, where he's hoping he can eke out the first win of his Republican presidential campaign.
Fresh off a bloody Senate vote rejecting Gov. Mark Dayton's trusted energy advisor Ellen Anderson, the Republican Party says they've got a "watch list" of other Dayton commissioners in the cross hairs, as well.
The idea of a Racino is getting some extra momentum from the Republican leaders in the Minnesota Senate.
Republicans pulled Minnesota into an explosive issue Thursday by introducing legislation to make union membership optional, setting the stage for a fight that has triggered boycotts by Democratic lawmakers and large protests in other states.
A day after his victory in Florida, Republican Presidential candidate Mitt Romney brought his campaign to Minnesota just five days before our state's caucuses.
Twenty-four hours after the Minnesota Senate rejected Ellen Anderson as the Governor's appointee to the Public Utilities Commission, she has accepted a job as a senior advisor to Dayton on energy and environmental issues.
Minnesota lawmakers are picking up right where they left off from last year. The 2012 session so far has been filled with bad feelings and harsh rhetoric. And already, state lawmakers are taking a break.
Fired Minnesota Senate staffer Michael Brodkorb has hired the Bloomington law firm of Villaume & Schiek ahead of possible legal action against the Senate, according to State Capitol sources.
Minnesota labor unions are bracing for what could be a national fight over what's called "right to work."
Just six months ago, an inability to see eye-to-eye led to Minnesota's longest state shutdown. Now, the 2012 legislative session is only three days old, but state lawmakers on opposite ends of the political spectrum are already back to bickering.
There was strong opposition to a Vikings stadium Thursday in a place the Vikings can least afford it. The Minneapolis City Council is opposing a stadium deal without a public referendum.
Minnesota Vikings owner Zygi Wilf said Wednesday that the team wants a new stadium in the Twin Cities, even if it means building on the current site of the Metrodome.
Tuesday's opening of the 2012 Legislative Session also saw the return to the Capitol of former Senate Leader Amy Koch.
In her first television interview since she stepped down as Minnesota'a Senate Majority Leader, Amy Koch is rethinking her decision not to run for reelection after admitting she had an inappropriate relationship with a Senate staffer.
Once the epicenter of entertainment in downtown Minneapolis, Block E is now struggling to stay alive. Now, the developers of the struggling Block E are prepared to join the stadium debate -- placing a wager that they could be the saving grace.
Minnesota Republicans produced a policy agenda Thursday full of familiar ideas for reshaping state government that they plan to push in the session that starts next week.
Gov. Mark Dayton said Wednesday that none of the plans so far for a Vikings stadium are good enough to pass the State Legislature. That assessment comes just six days before the legislature meets in session, and just as the Vikings Metrodome lease expires.
Gov. Mark Dayton unveiled a $775-million package of construction projects Tuesday, calling it a jobs bill that will create almost 22,000 new jobs.
Gov. Mark Dayton asked Minnesotans for stadium ideas -- and that's exactly what he got.
