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Senate Session Update: E-Proof of Insurance, Felons Voting

The Senate gathered to pass electronic proof of insurance, as well as a bill that includes felons voting, and other controversial provisions.

In final budget negotiations, what will happen to “Give it Back”?

  The transportation conference committee will meet late this afternoon to try to reconcile the differences between the $7 billion House Republican plan and the...

BLOG: Legislators push for $485 million bus line that won’t trim commute times

Late last week Senators Susan Kent, D-Woodbury and Karin Housley, R-St. Mary's Point, and Representatives JoAnn Ward-D, Woodbury, and Kelly Fenton, R-Woodbury, jointly penned a commentary for MinnPost urging legislators to approve funding for the $485 million Gateway Corridor bus rapid transit project. Also called the Gold line, the project is a 12-mile dedicated bus road that will run from Union station in St. Paul to Woodbury with twelve stops along the way. Alpha News reported on the project last month.

BLOG: Ten days left, fishing trip planned, who will be left on the...

Governor Mark Dayton, House Speaker Kurt Daudt, R-Crown, and Senate Majority Leader Tom Bakk, D- Cook will be sharing a boat this weekend for the Governor's fishing opener on Lake Vermilion. A little bonding between the leaders before the final weeks of session may seem like a good idea, until you consider the fact that Dayton invited then-Speaker Kurt Zellers, then-Majority Leader Matt Dean, and Rep Joe Hoppe to the 2011 fishing opener and that was the year state government shut down.

BLOG: New Met Council Chair appointment raises question of cronyism

On Tuesday, three Republican Senators joined with the DFL-majority to confirm the appointment of Adam Duininck as chair of the powerful Metropolitan Council. Sen Karin...

Alpha News Update-Education Finance Bill

Senate and House members are gathered to hash out the differences in their two versions of the education finance bills.

House Debates Agriculture

Monday the House gathered for session and disussed the Omnibus Agriculture Finance Bill

BLOG: Budget Ballooning in Minnesota

No matter how budget negotiations go over the next two weeks before the May 18th session deadline, Minnesotans already know one thing: government spending is going up again.

BLOG: Edina Democrat says you can catch bird flu by eating turkey

Rep Ron Erhardt, D-Edina, was dressed in a white lab coat and holding props to share a story from the House floor today about eating turkey...

Massive spending for PreK on the table, but is it effective?

The expansion of state-funded PreK in Minnesota started in 2011 with a $4 million allocation for scholarships for low-income 3 & 4 year-olds from the Republican-led legislature. $40 million was spent on scholarships by the Democrat-led legislature two-years later. Today, the Republicans are proposing $30 million increase in funding for the scholarships over the biennium and an additional $9.5 million for other school readiness programs. Democrats would put $5 million more into the scholarships and $70 million into school-readiness programs per the Star Tribune.