Roughly $2 billion worth of school bond referendums will go before Minnesota voters in November.

Sen. Al Franken pushed to get an understanding of rural broadband access at a roundtable event with the Department of Employment and Economic Development.

The biggest single players in the local-to-state relationship are the various coalitions and interest groups that pool resources from dues-paying members.

The two bills are so utterly different that neither is likely to hold its current shape after the two sides negotiate in a conference committee.

School construction projects fared well at the polls Tuesday.

Next Tuesday, 26 Minnesota school districts will ask voters to sign off on bond referendums addressing everything from security improvements to new buildings.

Revisions to the Senate version address objections from administrators and lawmakers.

Legislation eliminating restrictions on when lawsuits alleging child sexual abuse can be filed is headed for floor votes in the House and Senate. The House bill, sponsored by Rep. Steve Simon, DFL-Hopkins, cleared the Judiciary Finance and Policy Committee on a voice vote Wednesday.

DFL Rep. Mindy Greiling has spent years wrangling with the likes of education lobbyists as groups tried to sway the former House K-12 finance chairwoman to change longstanding policies or win a bigger piece of the multibillion-dollar budget pie. But no other group was more persistent, or powerful, than the so-called “education cartel.”

Lawmakers say they can’t ignore large part of budget as they deal with $4.8 billion deficit for 2010-2011 While handling recent budget deficits, state lawmakers ...