Tag: Minnesota Senate
Lawmaker calls for reform after Feeding Our Future suspect tries to...
A Minnesota lawmaker says the arrest of a woman tied to the Feeding Our Future scandal highlights years of systemic failures and the urgent...
Amazon suspends Minnesota project amid impending repeal of tax exemption for...
Development of a proposed Amazon data center in Becker, Minn., has been suspended following news that legislators intend to repeal electricity tax exemptions for...
Lawmakers form ‘working groups’ to negotiate final portions of state budget
The constitutional deadline for adjourning this year's legislative session came and went on May 19 without a completed state budget. Now, Gov. Tim Walz...
Northern Lights Express rail project ‘effectively dead’ under bill approved by...
One of a handful of moving parts in a state budget deal that’s still in flux will be sent to the desk of Gov. Tim Walz...
Melisa López Franzen exits US Senate race just two months after...
Just more than two months after Melisa López Franzen launched her U.S. Senate bid, the former DFL legislative leader has dropped out of the race.
López...
Will budget agreement hold? DFLers decry cuts to state health care...
Gov. Tim Walz and legislative leaders in Minnesota have agreed to a two-year state budget deal that significantly reduces a looming $6 billion deficit,...
State leaders strike agreement on two-year budget, DFL legislators protest
Republicans and Democrats in St. Paul struck a deal on Minnesota's next two-year budget. The deal will fund state government through June of 2027...
Special session looms as lawmakers, Walz continue to negotiate budget
With fewer than five days remaining in the legislative session, lawmakers at the Minnesota Capitol are finding themselves stuck in limbo on a number...
Legislators call on education department to follow Trump order removing gender...
A group of Republican legislators are calling on Commissioner Willie Jett of the Minnesota Department of Education (MDE) to cease implementation of new state...
Reforms to North Star scholarship program appear unlikely in closely divided...
As the final days of Minnesota's 2025 legislative session quickly approach, lawmakers in both houses of the state legislature are hammering out the details...