$4M grant split among 30 MNsure outreach groups Thirty organizations will share in a $4 million federal grant to help Minnesotans find health insurance coverage on the new online marketplace, MNsure announced Friday.August 23, 2013
NSA collected thousands of US communications The National Security Agency declassified three secret U.S. court opinions Wednesday showing how it scooped up as many as 56,000 emails and other communications by Americans with no connection to terrorism annually over three years, how it revealed the error to the court and changed how it gathered Internet communications.August 21, 2013
MNsure to ask feds for $55M for operations Minnesota's new online health insurance marketplace, MNsure, plans to ask the federal government for a total of $55 million to help fund the operation next year.August 7, 2013
Aspen Ideas Festival: Cyber threats to critical infrastructure Tim Pawlenty of the Financial Services Roundtable and former national intelligence director Mike McConnell sound the alarm about the threat from disgruntled people, extremist organizations and nation-states to our critical infrastructure: banking, utilities, transportation and national security.Minnesota Public Radio News Presents, August 1, 2013
Delay of employer penalties will cost gov't $10B The Obama administration's surprise decision to delay a key requirement of the health care law for employers will cost the government $10 billion, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office said Tuesday.July 31, 2013
High-deductible health plans, gamble for some, on the rise High-deductible plans are the increasingly common kind of health insurance that have cheaper premiums than traditional plans, but they put you on the hook for thousands of dollars in out-of-pocket costs before the insurance kicks in.July 30, 2013
Will Minnesota counties levy $10 wheelage tax? Thursday deadline looms The Legislature this year extended the wheelage tax option to all 87 Minnesota counties and then doubled the fee to $10. Counties have until Thursday to tell the state if they'll levy the tax -- and so far, they're nearly evenly divided on the topic.July 29, 2013