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Senator seeks to hold state cosmetology board accountable for past debacles

A Minnesota senator presented a bill Monday that would disband the Board of Cosmetology and transfer control over the industry to the Department of...

Minnesota Senate passes bill aiming to forgive state PPP taxes

(The Center Square) – On Thursday, the Minnesota Senate passed a bill seeking to forgive state taxes on the federal Paycheck Protection Program (PPP). The...

Minnesota Senate approves $20 million for mutual aid emergencies but no...

(The Center Square) — On Monday evening, the Minnesota Senate approved a $20 million fund to reimburse outside law enforcement help during extraordinary emergencies....

Late senator Jerry Relph honored with local ceremony

St. Cloud Mayor Dave Kleis, military personnel, and others honored Jerry Relph Tuesday afternoon with a memorial bench overlooking the Mississippi River. The granite structure...

Republicans on track to retain control of Minnesota Senate 

Despite millions of dollars being spent against them, Republicans are on track to retain control of the Minnesota Senate, meaning Gov. Tim Walz will...

Senate GOP says ‘DFL interests’ editing negative messages into senators’ Wikipedia...

The Minnesota Senate Victory Fund, the political arm of the Senate Republican Caucus, said the Wikipedia pages of several Republican senators were selectively edited...

Minnesota Dems skip Senate hearing on Minneapolis riots 

Senate Republicans called a joint committee hearing Thursday to review a recent report on the state’s response to the George Floyd riots, but their...

Minnesota’s bonding bill includes more than $11 million for ‘response to...

The $1.9 billion bonding bill passed last week by the Minnesota Legislature includes upwards of $11 million for “costs incurred” during May’s Minneapolis riots. The...

Senate OKs $1.9 billion bonding bill, sends to Walz

(The Center Square) – After a six-month stalemate in the Capitol, the Minnesota Senate on Thursday approved a $1.9 billion bonding package that’s now on its...

Bloomberg-backed gun group ‘going all out’ against Minnesota Senate GOP 

Everytown for Gun Safety, a gun-control group co-founded by billionaire Mike Bloomberg, recently launched a $1 million ad campaign against Minnesota Senate Republicans. The Everytown...