Pat Dalton

Aug 13, 2013

LIPP: Top Legislative Staffers

Pat Dalton and Stacie Weeks.

Jun 5, 2013

Leaders in Public Policy winners will be honored on July 11

State Rep. Karen Clark, who was the lead sponsor of legislation legalizing same-sex marriage, will receive the lifetime achievement award as part of the fourth annual Leaders in Public Policy awards, sponsored by Capitol Report and Politics in Minnesota. Clark and the other honorees will be recognized at a ceremony at the Saint Paul Hotel on July 11.

Mar 20, 2013

City lobbies agree on LGA approach

For the past decade, Capitol debates over local government aid (LGA) to cities have amounted to a long and bloody war of attrition. But this year Minnesota’s city lobbying associations have reached an accord on LGA that’s being hailed as a rare rapprochement on an issue typically dominated by thorny regional divides.

Mar 2, 2011

GOP rural caucus isn’t out to make big waves in budget negotiations, but may be forced to do so

Rep. Bob Gunther doesn't want the Republican rural caucus he helped form this session to be seen as adversarial to suburban and metro legislators. In his view, the bicameral caucus' main purpose is to educate the large number of rural GOP members of the House and Senate, many of them freshmen, on issues of special concern to outstate members.

Oct 19, 2009

Legislative panel launches 14-month LGA reform study

A new state working group consisting of local government officials and state legislators plans to come up with changes to the state’s local government aid policies.