Sen. Jeff Hayden, DFL-Minneapolis, predicted that the Senate would be able to pass a bill that is closer to the House's $9.50 figure than to the $7.75 mark.

Republican gubernatorial candidate Scott Honour issued a statement calling on MNsure executive director April Todd-Malmlov to resign.

As the election results began rolling in on Tuesday night, the mood was ebullient at Jax Café in Northeast Minneapolis. Even as torrential rains swamped Minneapolis, soggy, red-shirted supporters of House Speaker Margaret Anderson Kelliher filed into the banquet room and bars of the renowned steakhouse. House Majority Leader Tony Sertich repeatedly took to the podium to offer updates on the Minnesota Twins' pounding of the Chicago White Sox, as if it ordained victory for the DFL-endorsed candidate.

The campaign of DFL-endorsed candidate for governor Margaret Anderson Kelliher plans to begin airing television ads after the Fourth of July, a campaign spokesman said today.

Bill Walsh wants people to know that reports of his imminent departure from the Minnesota Department of Education have been greatly exaggerated.

House Speaker Margaret Anderson Kelliher survived a five-candidate scrum to emerge from April’s state DFL State Convention with the party’s endorsement. It took her six rounds of contentious balloting at the Duluth Entertainment Convention Center to claim the gubernatorial crown.

DFL-endorsed gubernatorial candidate Margaret Anderson Kelliher's communications director is leaving the campaign to go back to her old job.