House passes $500 million tax cut
Republican speakers expressed gratitude, though several used the occasion to criticize the DFL for passing the taxes in the first place.
Early childhood scholarships to get a push
All but two members of the Minnesota House voted in favor of a $500 million tax cut on Thursday evening. The bill’s overwhelming passage, delayed only by a few political speeches, sets the stage for a race to get the same package approved by the Senate some time next week. House Democrats and Gov. Mark ...
Top cops, privacy experts testify on surveillance
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.
House staffer Matthew Bergeron joins 64B DFL field
Bergeron works as a committee administrator on the House Health and Human Services Policy Committee.
Anzelc proposes ballot initiative to raise Minnesota’s minimum wage
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.
Lawsuit: Shelve online voter registration
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.
Minimum wage advocates gird for 2014 battle
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.
House, Senate State Fair polls: support for minimum wage hike, gun sale checks
The majority of survey takers favor a raised minimum wage, mandatory background checks for firearms sold at gun shows and legalizing medicinal marijuana.
House Democrats, Dayton start next minimum wage push
Gov. Mark Dayton, labor activists and House members made an appearance at the Minnesota State Fair on Tuesday to renew a push to raise the state's minimum wage from $6.25 per hour to $9.50 by 2015.
DFLers are going all in on business subsidies
Gov. Mark Dayton’s office set politicos and reporters abuzz this week with a late-arriving and mysterious addition to his daily schedule for Wednesday. The update said only that Dayton would be traveling out of state with Department of Employment and Economic Development (DEED) Commissioner Katie Clark Sieben for a “meeting regarding a possible economic development opportunity for Minnesota.�[...]
Winkler apologizes for ‘Uncle Thomas’ tweet
State Rep. Ryan Winkler has issued an apology for an incendiary comment he made on Twitter in response to the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling on the Voting Rights Act.
Tom Bakk: Remembrance of the session past
In the end, the DFL-controlled 2013 Legislature finished its budget work on time — with four minutes to spare, to be exact. It was 11:56 p.m. on adjournment day by the time the Minnesota Senate wrapped up its vote on the tax bill.
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