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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.

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.

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...

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

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

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.

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...

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.

Alpha News Featured Report on MN Care II Proposal

Elections: The current version of the Senate Elections Administration Bill includes legislation to allow felons to vote before their sentence is up, and to open voter registration to sixteen year olds. Alpha News spoke with the Ranking Minority Member for the Senate Rules and Administration Subcommittee on Elections, Senator Mary Kiffmeyer, to ask her about the various components of this bill.