The bill was amended only slightly during Thursday's proceedings.

The governor’s pitch devotes $616 million – fully half of the state’s projected $1.2 billion surplus – to tax rollbacks.

Republican speakers expressed gratitude, though several used the occasion to criticize the DFL for passing the taxes in the first place.

Winkler bill would devote an additional $20 million to aid Late one night near the tail end of the 2013 legislative session, Rep. Ryan Winkler, ...

Amid mounting concern over the use of high-tech surveillance tools such as cellphone trackers and automated license plate readers, a procession of privacy experts and top law enforcement officials testified before a packed crowd at the meeting of the House of Representatives Civil Law Committee on Tuesday.

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

DFL Rep. Tom Anzelc, Balsam Township, said Wednesday that he plans to introduce a constitutional amendment next session that would raise the state's minimum wage from $6.15 per hour to $10 per hour by 2015 and adjust the rate in the future according to inflation. Many state employers play the federal minimum wage of $7.25.

Republican legislators and conservative groups filed a lawsuit this week aimed at suspending an online voter registration program that they claim was improperly implemented by Minnesota Secretary of State Mark Ritchie, a DFLer, without legislative approval.

Back in August, under a pavilion at the Minnesota State Fairgrounds in 95-degree heat, supporters of increasing the minimum wage in Minnesota kicked off what would soon become a very public campaign. Before then, talk of raising the wage was mostly confined to the halls of the state Capitol, where differing House and Senate bills were considered last session but failed to yield any agreement.

The majority of survey takers favor a raised minimum wage, mandatory background checks for firearms sold at gun shows and legalizing medicinal marijuana.