By Tim Walker
At the start of the seven-hour debate on the omnibus judiciary and public safety supplemental budget bill, both Republican and DFL House members stressed that ensuring the safet...
By Pratik Joshi
Making postsecondary education affordable and available to all Minnesotans is the bedrock of the omnibus higher education finance and policy bill.
Sponsored by Rep. Connie B...
By Margaret Stevens
An agreement between leaders in the House and Senate to fully replenish the unemployment insurance trust fund at $2.7 billion and provide bonuses to workers whose job put them at greater risk of contracting COVID-19 was approved by a conference committee.
By Brian Hall
Issues that received plenty of debate in committee meetings continued to receive lengthy discussion, but the House nonetheless passed its omnibus environment and natural resourc...
By Margaret Stevens
House and Senate leaders have announced an agreement to replenish the state’s unemployment trust fund and provide bonuses to frontline workers. Both bodies hope to pass the legi...
By Margaret Stevens
After three straight days of mostly party-line votes on omnibus bills, the House Ways and Means Committee crossed party lines Thursday around a pair of sometimes contentious sub...
By Mike Cook
A 17-member unelected group has taxing authority and oversees some important planning for, but often not thought about, aspects of life in the seven-county Twin Cities metropoli...
By Pratik Joshi
Investments in early childhood, special education and English-language learner programs are essential parts of the omnibus education finance and policy bill.
By Mike Cook
Andy and Rachel Wilke’s story turned out fine.
But the journey was far from easy.
A medical issue forced the Wilkes to use the costly — and at times emotional — process ...
By Tim Walker
The House Ways and Means Committee approved an 870-page health, human services, and early childhood bill Wednesday and sent it to the House Floor.
By Rob Hubbard
The battle of dueling tax bills is closer to a conference committee.
The omnibus tax bill is on its way to the floor after being approved by the House Ways and Means Committ...
By Mike Cook
Going a shade over the speed limit, a drive from Rochester to the State Capitol and then north to Roseau can be completed in roughly seven hours.
It took about that much tim...
By Margaret Stevens
The work of four different house committees is together in one supplemental spending bill.
The omnibus jobs and economic development bill includes proposals to investigate f...
By Brian Hall
Trying to address the lack of affordable housing, lack of broadband internet and to improve agriculture practices, the House passed a sweeping package of supplemental appropriat...
By Margaret Stevens
With a deadline looming and following a call from Gov. Tim Walz in his State of the State address Sunday, the House passed a bill Monday to replenish the state’s unemployment insurance trust fund, provide frontline worker pay for some and make hourly school workers eligible for unemployment.