The Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development (DEED) says it has received 90 applications requesting a total $288.4 million in bonding projects. That's well more than what's available in a $47.5 million economic development fund set by the Legislature this year to pay for additional construction projects.

Last week the Department of Employment and Economic Development sent out a call for grant applications to spend almost $50 million. At stake was the latest pot of economic development dollars DEED will disburse this year, just another funding stream to be doled out to projects around the state.

Democrats in the Minnesota House and Senate have had two choices regarding their posture heading into the 2012 campaign season: Withhold votes on key bills to set up the claim that Republicans presided over a do-nothing session, or put up the votes to ensure passage of key initiatives and cry “job creation!”

Thirteen unions representing approximately 43,000 workers are locked in difficult negotiations with the state over health care insurance premiums for the next two years.

Matt Kramer, a former commissioner of the Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development (DEED) and a former chief of staff for Gov. Tim Pawlenty, has been named president of the St. Paul Chamber of Commerce.

Minnesota's unemployment rate edged up .1 percent in March to a seasonally adjusted 7.4 percent, according to numbers released today by the Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development (DEED).

Minnesota's seasonally adjusted unemployment rate remained at 7.3 percent in February -- the same percentage recorded in January, according to figures released this afternoon by the Department of Employment and Economic Development (DEED).

Between the brickbats from two prominent DFL state senators and a critical legislative auditor's report, the past few days have been decidedly unkind to the Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development (DEED) and its commissioner, Dan McElroy.

Dan McElroy’s forebears left their names on Minnesota – literally. His grandfather, Frank D. McElroy, was the sixth president of Mankato Normal School, which is ...