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Should Minnesota have a full-time Legislature?
Anyone who watched the Minnesota Legislature in the months following the declaration of the COVID-19 pandemic might have thought that the state House
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‘Jeff from town’: How a former Hormel CEO came to be a Democratic candidate for a U.S. House seat in southern Minnesota
Jeff Ettinger, in some ways, is an unusual candidate for the Democratic party. The former CEO of Hormel is running for U.S. House in a special
What’s to complain about? Earlier vaccine mandates led to zero enforcement despite complaints
For nearly a month earlier this year, Minneapolis and St. Paul had required food and drink establishments they license to check the COVID-19
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Even as more lawmakers criticize their use, omnibus bills continue to be how things get done at the Minnesota Legislature
The Minnesota Legislature has reached the stage where half the members are busy stuffing a session’s worth of work into a handful of omnibus bills
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Housing advocates want lawmakers to restart and replenish Minnesota’s halted rental assistance program. That’s gonna be a tough sell.
Advocates for low-income renters have asked Gov. Tim Walz and state legislators to refill the accounts of the state’s pandemic-related rental
Walz touts return to normalcy, calls for unity in State of the State address
Gov. Tim Walz has been governor for nearly four years but Sunday was just his second state of the state delivered in the traditional way: in person,
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Why DFLers at the Minnesota Capitol are fighting — with each other — over rural broadband
On the surface, government funding to build high-speed internet infrastructure is a bipartisan success story. In the coming years, Minnesota is
D.C. Memo: Flight time isn’t the right time
Hello and welcome back to the D.C. Memo. This week you can find me shaking my head at our local (D.C.) MLB team. On Wednesday, the U.S. Capitol was
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For recruitment and retention, some Minnesota businesses turn to same day pay
In 2020, “stimulus check ” and “second stimulus check” were among the top 15 Google searches in the United States. That same year, an Ernst
So, what happens to all the money from Jim Hagedorn’s campaign?
Last week, political committees filed quarterly campaign reports with the Federal Elections Commission (FEC) that outline the money spent in pursuit
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Liquor industry deal would create council to recommend booze law changes in Minnesota
An agreement among the leaders of businesses that make up the Minnesota liquor industry has boosted the chances of the first reform of alcohol laws
Six things that could could get done at the Minnesota Legislature before the end of the 2022 session
When the Minnesota Legislature reconvenes Tuesday, it will have four and half weeks before the state constitution says it must adjourn. Will the
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What fundraising and endorsements tell us about the special election in Minnesota’s 1st Congressional District
In the unusually short campaign for the U.S. House seat representing southern Minnesota’s 1st Congressional District, it can be difficult to gauge
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D.C. Memo: Take my Twitter … please
REUTERS/Kacper Pempel/IllustrationHello and welcome back to the D.C. Memo. This week you can find me thinking about my perfect reality: Elon Musk
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Even after years of improving air quality, pollution remains a problem in some Minnesota communities
Cassandra Holmes, vice president of the East Phillips Neighborhood Institute, still doesn’t know why her oldest son died. At the age of 16, he