Nationally, the social networking site was the catalyst for the recent Anthony Weiner scandal and his ultimate resignation, after the seven-term Democratic congressman from New York accidentally tweeted a lewd image of himself he had meant to send as a direct message to a woman.

Last fall, workers who were repairing the state Capitol’s roof and dome noticed cracks and fissures on the building’s marble cornice. In the months that followed, an urgent analysis has been done by a team with expertise in structural engineering, architecture and masonry that has looked at the cornice and most parts of the building that project outward.

Freshman Republican Sen. Gretchen Hoffman must apologize to DFL Sen. Barb Goodwin for a tweet she sent out in the midst of a health and human services debate during session, the Senate Ethics Committee ruled on Monday.

Hoffman, a freshman lawmaker from Vergas, drew the ire of DFLers when she posted to her Twitter account that DFL Sen. Barb Goodwin had "just called people with mental illness- idiots and imbeciles- while debating HHS bill."

In a trend that has persisted for more than 10 years, the richest Minnesotans are paying a lower percentage of their incomes in state and local taxes than the rest of the state's residents, according to the biennial Tax Incidence Study prepared by the Department of Revenue.

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Republican state Rep. Tom Hackbarth proposes to expand gambling in Minnesota almost every year, but his bills have been repeatedly shot down by Democratic leaders in the Legislature and a Republican governor who was less than excited to see them on his desk.

Few political issues have been as intractable in the last half-century as redistricting, according to University of Minnesota political science professor Larry Jacobs.

Concerned is not a strong enough word to describe political scholar Norm Ornstein's feelings about the polarization in today's politics. Among the many reasons Ornstein cited during an event at the University of Minnesota's Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs for the current level of partisanship is redistricting.

Chaudhary's primary loss made him the body's fifth departing chair