The Sierra Club's 2009-2010 scorecard for Minnesota legislators shows a lopsided record between Republicans and DFLers. Greater Minnesota DFLers also often scored lower than urban DFLers.

A panel of three administrative law judges has shot down the state House Republican Campaign Committee's complaint that a liberal-leaning Minnesota advocacy group misrepresented GOP House members in an online advertisement.

Gov. Tim Pawlenty formally lodged his defense today with the Minnesota Supreme Court in the ongoing unallotment litigation. The Republican governor is asking the state's high court to put weight on his administration's actions of June 4, 2009.

Removing a restriction on Sunday retail liquor sales that has been part of Minnesota law since Prohibition could generate as much as $10.6 million a year in new tax revenues for the cash-strapped state, according to an analysis by a national liquor trade association.

Ever since Gov. Tim Pawlenty put an abrupt and unprecedented end to a stalemated legislative session last month, there’s been a line of recrimination circulating ...

Ever since Gov. Tim Pawlenty put an abrupt and unprecedented end to a stalemated legislative session last month, there’s been a line of recrimination circulating ...

State lawmakers head into the last week of the 2009 regular legislative session on a train fueled by heated rhetoric and uncommon policy moves. DFL ...

Minnesota legislators this week have been wringing their hands over their neighbor to the south in the Hawkeye State. Sen. Claire Robling, R-Jordan, was among ...

Usually, passing the relatively small agriculture and veterans affairs budget bill is a politically lackluster affair. But not in this increasingly bitter year at the ...

[A longer version of this story appeared in the March 26, 2009, edition of Capitol Report.] Most of the time, state Rep. Jeremy Kalin, DFL-North ...