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• Let's make a deal: Lessons learned from hospital mergers
  Communities that want or need to find a larger hospital partner can improve their bargaining efforts, say some who have been through it.September 20, 2012
• Citing potential conflicts of interest, Dayton moves insurance exchange to budget office
  Gov. Mark Dayton is changing leadership of the administration's work on the state's health insurance exchange, shifting oversight away from the Department of Commerce after questions of conflict of interest and lack of transparency.September 18, 2012
• Minnesota seeks Medicaid waiver
  Minnesota asks the federal government to waive a number of federal Medicaid rules, which Gov. Mark Dayton says would save the state about $151 million over the next five years. The proposed changes include an emphasis on intervening before Medicaid patients rack up huge medical bills.August 28, 2012
• HennCo sues lenders over unpaid taxes
  Hennepin County elected officials have filed a $10 million civil lawsuit against Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac in U.S. District Court. The suit contends the two privately held home loan corporations owe the state of Minnesota for unpaid deed transfer taxes.August 24, 2012
• Rybak budget increases spending for police, fire
  Minneapolis Mayor R.T. Rybak's proposal calls for a 1.7 percent property tax increase. He's also proposing to cut costs by reorganizing the city's Regulatory Services Department.August 15, 2012
• Police see drones as cheap eye in the sky
  Many law enforcement officials think airborne drones can make life safer, but the technology scares some.August 13, 2012
• In sparsely populated districts, TV hearings save money
  District Judge Jerry Seibel rides a circuit to preside over cases throughout western Minnesota. Increasingly, that means turning on the TV and manning a remote control.August 13, 2012
• Unique court lets tribal and state judges fight addiction together
  The Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe has joined with two northern Minnesota counties to create a "wellness court" that for the first time is letting tribal and district court judges act together to handle addiction and substance abuse.August 13, 2012
• Budget crunch forces cities and counties to rethink policing
  Since 2007, 20 Minnesota cities have disbanded their police departments to save money and others have trimmed officers. The state's local government budget crunch has hit the realm of public safety.August 13, 2012
• Rural security firm stands guard over empty farms and cabins
  One Minnesota business is experiencing a boom because more farms stand empty and farmers feel the need to provide their own security.August 13, 2012
• Lottery sales going up, even as other gambling goes down
  The Minnesota State Lottery had a record year. Sales totaled $520 million in the year that ended June 30, topping last year's record by $16 million. For the past five years, lottery sales have been climbing, even as sales of other forms of gambling have gone down.August 3, 2012
• Combined response to a hazardous waste spill in the middle of the night
  A situation tailor made to overwhelm the emergency services of a small town turned into a model of local, state and even federal cooperation. Sometimes Homeland Security money does more than fight terrorism.August 2, 2012
• Amid debate and uncertainty over health care, Mayo expands
  There's a lot of jockeying for position in the health care market as medical centers prepare to implement the provisions of the federal Affordable Care Act.July 10, 2012
• Most medical businesses already prepared to follow law
  The Supreme Court's decision to uphold the constitutionality of President Barack Obama's health care law doesn't change much for Minnesota's big medical device companies, hospitals, or health insurers.June 29, 2012
• Minnesota officials say they will press ahead with new health care system
  State efforts toward affordable health care got a new push Thursday when the U.S. Supreme Court upheld virtually all of the federal law.June 29, 2012

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