Gov. Mark Dayton says Republican legislative leaders are underestimating his resolve if they think he'll back off his plan to raise taxes on Minnesota's top earners.
(05/05/2011)
The $50 million facility would replace the minor league baseball club's 29-year-old Midway Stadium.
(05/04/2011)
With 19 days left in the session, the governor said today that his optimism for a timely deal is waning. But GOP leaders insist they're ready to negotiate.
(05/04/2011)
Budget matters took a backseat to policy issues Wednesday at the State Capitol, even though lawmakers have just a month left in the session to erase a $5 billion deficit.
(04/27/2011)
Gov. Mark Dayton is now describing his ongoing budget disagreement with Republican legislative leaders as "theater of the absurd."
(04/26/2011)
Council wants to create a property tax relief fund by taking $3 million away from road-repaving projects.
(04/25/2011)
Many first-year Republicans in the Minnesota Legislature say they won't give in to Gov. Mark Dayton's call to raise taxes on the wealthy. But today, two new lawmakers from Republican districts found people are more concerned about budget cuts than tax hikes.
(04/19/2011)
This year's GOP freshman class is bigger and bolder than those in past legislative sessions and many say they aren't going to compromise with the governor.
(04/19/2011)
The just-signed Agriculture bill is less than 1 percent of the state's total budget for the next two years and does little to erase the projected $5 billion deficit. And the governor and the Legislature are having a much harder time agreeing on what to do next.
(04/15/2011)
When the House Tax Committee got a chance to discuss the particulars of DFL Gov. Mark Dayton's tax plan Wednesday, some of the panel's Republican lawmakers spent more time criticizing Dayton's plan than listening to the 40 people who came to talk about it.
(04/13/2011)
The northern Twin Cities suburb was once a traditionally Democratic blue area that's shifted to purple, and it helped the GOP take control of the Legislature in 2010.
(04/13/2011)
He said the budget plan put forward by House Republicans is $1.2 billion out of balance and the Senate GOP plan is $1.1 billion out of whack. Dayton said his plan is based on solid fiscal analysis and the Republican plans aren't.
(04/13/2011)
Republican Senate Majority Leader Amy Koch says Republicans intend to pursue their budget plan, in particular a federal waiver that allows the state to change how it administers the federal Medicaid law.
(04/12/2011)
Rep. Paul Thissen, DFL-Minneapolis, is right that cutting government spending would cost jobs, but his numbers are hard to pin down.
(04/08/2011)
After passing a series of budget bills, Republicans in the Minnesota Senate say they now want to start negotiating with the House and DFL Gov. Mark Dayton on a final agreement.
(04/07/2011)
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