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The panel will zero in on racial and other disparities in the agency’s projects, policymaking and hiring practices.

Two key players at the Legislature signaled last month they see room for compromise on transportation.

House Republicans are moving to cut the Metropolitan Council Chairman Adam Duininck's salary in half, in a jab at Gov. Mark Dayton over a pay increase they believe went beyond the terms of a deal on commissioner salaries.

1.) Gov. Mark Dayton signed $440 million in tax cuts into law late Friday, reports the Pioneer Press. It followed a day in which both ...

Jeff Blodgett will once again helm President Barack Obama's campaign in Minnesota. The former executive director of Wellstone Action started with the campaign on Monday.

Adam Duininck, political coordinator for the International Union of Operating Engineers Local 49, has joined the DFL's coordinated campaign. The labor union will continue to pay Duininck's salary, but he'll be working with the party to get its slate of candidates elected in November. That principally means helping to elect House Speaker Margaret Anderson Kelliher governor.

On the Sunday before the DFL Convention in Duluth, 100 volunteers for Margaret Anderson Kelliher met at the 49ers union hall in Minneapolis. The meeting's purpose was to rehearse what everyone present needed to do to get Kelliher the endorsement, all the way down to practicing four cheers that Kelliher's team would use on the convention floor.