The changing demographics and DFL-friendly voting record of Senate District 46 signaled an easy win for DFL Sen.-elect Chris Eaton in Tuesday’s special election.

With another state budget deficit looming, Gov. Mark Dayton’s administration is planning to go public with ideas to change how government operates. House Republicans have made the most noise this summer and fall about government restructuring with their Reform 2.0 initiative.

Mary Albert has run a day care center on the East Side of St. Paul for seven years. She typically takes care of 12 children during the course of a day. Most of them come from poor families that qualify for state-subsidized care.

A group of major Democratic party donors and fundraisers is banding together to try to ensure that the DFL's generation-long drought in Minnesota gubernatorial politics ends in 2010.

It was a tough day for AFSCME Council 5, which has worked with policymakers through good times and bad to keep delivering services to Minnesota’s ...

It was a tough day for AFSCME Council 5, which has worked with policymakers through good times and bad to keep delivering services to Minnesota’s ...

Today’s Wall Street Journal has a front page story, "Labor Makes Big Comeback in ’08 Races." That’s certainly true in the Minnesota U.S. Senate race. ...

Today’s Wall Street Journal has a front page story, "Labor Makes Big Comeback in ’08 Races." That’s certainly true in the Minnesota U.S. Senate race. ...

The Star Tribune‘s Pat Lopez has the latest twist in Minnesota DFL union politics: "One of the state’s most powerful labor groups has split its ...

The Star Tribune‘s Pat Lopez has the latest twist in Minnesota DFL union politics: "One of the state’s most powerful labor groups has split its ...