Minnesota Lawyer

Metro Transit will open the public conversation about a possible Midtown transit corridor in a pair of open houses scheduled for later this month.

Eighteen Minnesota-based architectural design subcontractors have been hired for design work on the new Minnesota Vikings stadium in downtown Minneapolis.

The Department of Natural Resources has allocated $7.5 million in Legacy Amendment grants to 13 greater Minnesota parks and trails projects that are slated over the coming year.

A Minneapolis architectural firm’s retired CEO has been appointed to the commission that selects designers for major state-funded building design and construction projects.

Fifteen people were appointed Dec. 19 to a new aquatic species advisory committee that will report to the commissioner of the Department of Natural Resources.

Redirecting $130,000 that formerly would have been used as part of now-canceled ethanol producer payments, the Minnesota Department of Agriculture (MDA) is offering to help Minnesota food producers pay trade show expenses as they reach out to new markets.

Erin Sullivan Sutton had a big hand in reducing the number of Minnesota kids who need immediate adoption from a stubbornly persistent 1,000 a year a decade ago down to 355 as of Sept. 1, 2012.

Minnesota gained 10,800 jobs in November, driving its unemployment rate down to 5.7 percent—fully 2 percent lower than the national unemployment rate of 7.7 percent.

The state generated a record $51 million in mineral revenue for fiscal year 2012, according to the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources.

Minnesota has received conditional approval from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to build the state’s new health insurance exchange.