The campaign said Zellers had "far out-raised candidates not dependent on their personal wealth."

Huntley has chaired the Health and Human Service Finance Committee in three different legislative sessions, including the present.

Greta Bergstrom’s campaign strategy to win the DFL endorsement for the House seat being vacated by Rep. Michael Paymar is simple, according to her campaign co-chair. “Get out in front and get people backing you right from the start,” St. Paul City Council member Amy Brendmoen said.

After years of budgeting under the strain of current and future deficits, the November economic forecast continued Minnesota’s streak of glad tidings. The report, released Thursday, was the fifth straight (dating to November 2011) in which the state has projected a surplus for the current biennium. The November report predicts that the state will end the 2014-15 budget cycle with an $825 million net surplus.

The November economic forecast released Thursday projects that the state of Minnesota will end the current biennium with an $825 million surplus. In the immediate afterglow, one note of consensus among major players was that the news should be taken with cautious optimism – though each cited different reasons for doing so.

Bergeron works as a committee administrator on the House Health and Human Services Policy Committee.

The sex offender task force's final recommendations emphasized the importance of separating the civil commitment process from the risk of political interference.

Dayton's and Franken's relative unpopularity does not seem to have hurt their party.

After years of inactivity punctuated by sporadic talks at the Legislature, the issue of Minnesota’s civil commitment of the sexually dangerous seems to be coming to a head. The question now is whether a judge will intervene to force changes in the Minnesota Sex Offender Program before the 2014 Legislature even convenes.

Paymar's announcement set off waves of speculation over who might run to replace him.