When Kathy Lantry’s mom was growing up in the Dayton’s Bluff neighborhood of St. Paul in the 1940s, the Sacred Heart Church held Masses in both English and German. Today the Roman Catholic parish still conducts Mass in a pair of languages, but the non-English service has changed to Spanish.

Members of the House Labor and Consumer Protection Division this morning marked their last meeting of the biennium with cookies and milk.

Rep. Tim Mahoney (DFL-St. Paul) continues his line of questioning for U of M President Bob Bruininks after adjournment of the Committee on Higher Education and Workforce Development Thursday.

The recession-spawned push to draw more business investment to Minnesota has led state lawmakers from both sides of the aisle to craft proposals for giving tax breaks to investors who put money into startup ventures.

The recession-spawned push to draw more business investment to Minnesota has led state lawmakers from both sides of the aisle to craft proposals for giving tax breaks to investors who put money into startup ventures.

The chair of the House Capital Investment Committee hopes to move quickly on a major bonding bill in the upcoming legislative session.

Fueled in part by high-profile business defections from Minnesota to Wisconsin last year, a number of legislators are planning a renewed push on long-standing efforts to pass "angel" incentives for early-stage investors in new state businesses.

Critics are piling on House Taxes Committee Chairwoman Ann Lenczewski's proposal to provide grants to angel investors.

Design, construction and organized labor representatives are appealing to state lawmakers for help in boosting Minnesota’s depressed building industry.

DFL and Republican state legislators on the House Higher Education and Workforce Development Finance and Policy committee this afternoon got a workout in political rhetoric ...