Gov. Mark Dayton and Republican leaders have been pledging to work together on the state's projected $6.2 billion budget deficit. But Dayton wants to raise income taxes on the state's top earners, and the Republicans don't.
(02/10/2011)
Gov. Mark Dayton called for bipartisan cooperation Wednesday in his first State of the State message. But he stood by his plan to raise taxes to help erase the state's projected $6.2 billion budget deficit, and Republican lawmakers called that unacceptable.
(02/09/2011)
Republicans have said cuts to state spending would not impact the state's most vulnerable residents, but their first budget bill may break that promise.
(02/09/2011)
Gov. Mark Dayton told reporters Tuesday that he doesn't support the GOP efforts to take a piecemeal approach to erasing the state's $6.2 billion budget deficit.
(02/08/2011)
Republicans in the Minnesota Senate passed a bill Thursday that would cut nearly $1 billion in state spending. Based on the debate, Democrats intend to force Republicans to account for every dollar they cut.
(02/03/2011)
In spite of concerns raised by Republicans, state finance officials are insisting that Minnesota can afford Gov. Mark Dayton's proposal for a $1 billion bonding bill.
Some GOP legislators are also questioning whether bonding is the right thing to do, given the state's budget problems.
(02/02/2011)
"I hate what I'm having to do," the governor said at a Minneapolis event Monday organized by the Downtown Congregations to End Homelessness.
(02/01/2011)
Gov. Mark Dayton has revealed $531 million in projects that he hopes become part of a $1 billion bonding bill to improve public buildings and create construction jobs across the state.
(01/31/2011)
The Minnesota House has approved $1
billion in state budget cuts that would reduce aid payments for
local governments, colleges and community health programs.
(01/28/2011)
With Minnesota lawmakers staring at a $6.2
billion deficit this session, state Rep. Pat Garofalo knows as well
as anyone that balancing the state budget is "going to be tough
and it could be ugly."
(01/26/2011)
The Senate Finance Committee approved the plan which would reduce the state's projected $6.2 billion budget deficit by about $1 billion.
(01/26/2011)
Republicans took over the Minnesota
Legislature promising to create jobs. On Wednesday, they pushed
forward a bill that would slim state government by cutting roughly
5,000 state employee positions.
(01/19/2011)
Republicans in the Minnesota House and Senate are proposing some early moves aimed at shrinking a projected $6.2 billion state budget deficit by about $1 billion, setting up a possible confrontation with Gov. Mark Dayton.
(01/18/2011)
Republicans in the Minnesota House are proposing legislation that would cut the number of state employees by 15 percent and freeze their salaries.
(01/13/2011)
Republicans will control of both the House and Senate for the first time since 1972, and it will be the first time in decades that every member in a position of authority will be new to the job.
(01/04/2011)
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