Minnesota Lawyer

How inflation adds $45 million-plus to total $1.68 billion cost.

Nearly a year after the Minnesota Legislature approved a 100-bed skilled nursing home on the Minneapolis Veterans Home campus, the state is still waiting for most of the funding commitment from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs.

Minnesota Department of Transportation officials have good news for motorists who are weary of driving on bad pavements and for contractors who work on roads ...

Closing loophole for nonresidents’ property may hurt businesses.

Tax cuts, economic development top DFL spending list.

In announcing the package, Gov. Mark Dayton argued that the state's positive budget forecast makes the business-to-business taxes unnecessary.

A state transportation bill introduced last Friday includes a gas sales tax that would help road improvement funds keep pace with inflation, an idea that has the strong support of transportation backers but is likely to face stiff resistance in an election year.

House Speaker Paul Thissen told business leaders at the Minnesota Chamber of Commerce Session Priorities event Tuesday that a repeal of the new top income-tax bracket is unlikely.

Gov. Mark Dayton and House DFLers have expressed support or the repeal of the business-to-business sales taxes passed last year, but the idea has yet to gain favor with Senate Democratic leaders.

The November economic forecast released Thursday projects that the state of Minnesota will end the current biennium with an $825 million surplus. In the immediate afterglow, one note of consensus among major players was that the news should be taken with cautious optimism – though each cited different reasons for doing so.