A Minneapolis long-term care facility is the first Minnesota Veterans Home to receive certification to qualify for Medicare and Medicaid reimbursement.
Read More »MPCA forums to study riverway sediment reduction
A draft report outlining strategies to reduce choking sediments in the Minnesota and Mississippi rivers will be the subject of three public comment sessions next month.
Read More »Mark Siegel: Refusing to be stopped
DHS’s Siegel overcomes disease to make outsized contributions to health care policy.
Read More »Board may OK sand mining ‘toolkit’ for local governments
A document to help local governments regulate silica sand mining was scheduled for a possible vote by the Environmental Quality Board late Wednesday.
Read More »Report details judicial branch’s 2013 initiatives
The Minnesota Judicial Branch has released its annual report, detailing the various strides that state and district courts have made over the past year.
Read More »Safe-driving group wants more specific language in law
A nonprofit group wants to substitute the word “accident,” sprinkled throughout Minnesota's hit-and-run law, with the word “collision.”
Read More »No kidding: Ag wants to promote goat meat
With an influx of immigrants partial to it, and more upscale restaurants offering it as a specialty dish, the state is seeing an upsurge in interest in goat meat.
Read More »Rivers to take over DNR parks and trails
Erika Rivers will take over a division with a $103 million annual budget and a staff of 1,200 full- and part-time employees.
Read More »The push for judicial retention elections
A bipartisan effort led by the Coalition for Impartial Justice is proposing a system of judicial review and retention elections to avoid the highly charged, politically explosive contests common in Wisconsin, Texas and other states.
Read More »New rules mean Supreme Court reduces paper intake
The Minnesota Supreme Court won’t have as much paper to kick around anymore. That is because late last month, the Judicial Branch decreed that litigants ...
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