Minnesota voters in 2008 agreed to increase the state sales tax to pay for the arts and outdoors projects. Now the Minnesota economy is having a say on how quickly the money flows into state coffers to pay for such things.

Charley Shaw is reporting that the godfather of the Legacy amendment, former Sen. Bob Lessard, opposes the conference committee deal struck today.Details here. Worth noting ...

Bob Lessard, the former state senator whose name adorns the council that recommended habitat projects to legislators, has denounced the conference report that House and ...

Environmental and conservation groups are so far generally pleased with ongoing negotiations at the Capitol to spend new dedicated sales-tax dollars on habitat and clean-water ...

More than a decade after former state Sen. Bob Lessard of International Falls started proposing it, state legislators last Thursday approved putting a question on ...

In previous legislative sessions, Room 107 of the state Capitol has been the scene of lengthy conference committee meetings concerning legislation that asks voters if ...

Lia Rivamonte lives the arts. And the way she sees things, art infuses people with humanity. “In any kind of civilization, what do you remember ...

The sun set last week on efforts to dedicate Minnesota sales tax dollars to the outdoors and the arts. Senate Majority Leader Dean Johnson said ...

The future of a measure to dedicate funding to natural resource preservation is in doubt after a move in a Senate committee last week to ...