By Mike Cook
A plan toughen penalties for sex offenders and adults who prey on children was held over Tuesday by the House Public Safety and Security Policy and Finance Committee.
By Jonathan Avise
Governor wants a half-cent, metro-wide transit-dedicated tax in an effort to provide more stable long-term funding for expanding mass transit in the Twin Cities metropolitan area.
By Tory Cooney
Steve Shapira was serving as a St. Paul fire captain when he was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin lymphoma in 2012. The veteran firefighter didn’t smoke and didn’t have a family histo...
By Ricky Campbell
Gov. Mark Dayton signed into law Tuesday a bipartisan proposal allowing liquor stores to open on Sundays after it received overwhelming support in the Legislature and a growing ...
By Nick Longworth
Continued mentor program funding could provide extra support for continually absent and low-performing students.
HF268, sponsored by Rep. Tama Theis (R-St. Cloud), would app...
By Nick Longworth
Lawmakers eyeing education policy this session are focused on what has worked in the past while also offering future proposals that could “do no harm.”
“We tried to present ...
By Mike Cook
A bill to provide a sales tax construction exemption and a permanent property tax
exemption for a Major League Soccer stadium in St. Paul has been held over by a House division.
By HPIS Staff
This week on Starting Line we sit down with Rep. Drew Christensen (R-Savage) to learn more about HF1078, his so-called “growler bill.” The proposed legislation would, in part, increase the amount of barrels a microbrewery can annually produce while still being able to sell growlers.
By Nick Longworth
A new report found that standardized testing can be time-consuming, burden school resources and produce results that can be confusing. It offered several suggestions for the Department of Education to consider.