Minnesota lawmakers hope to move a $1 billion bonding bill through the 2010 Legislature in as expeditious a manner as possible, with the goal of putting unemployed Minnesotans back to work.
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The forecast in photos
The day in photos from the Capitol.
Read More »Speaker (and candidate) Kelliher launches panel on Minnesota job creation
House Speaker Margaret Anderson Kelliher, DFL-Minneapolis, announced the House Jobs Task Force with the stated intention of crafting legislation for the 2010 legislative session that would increase jobs in Minnesota.
Read More »Minnesota’s budget crunch ‘excruciating’
Past governors and legislative leaders fault both politics and demographics.
Read More »MN political leaders from the past confront the next big state budget deficit
Former Minnesota governors and legislative leaders spent this morning and afternoon confronting the gargantuan deficit that is estimated for the 2012-2013 budget.
Read More »Stinson: Minnesota revenues for next biennium likely to fall short of current forecast
Yesterday afternoon PIM spoke with Minnesota state economist Tom Stinson about the recently released July Economic Update [previous item]. The good news, he says, is ...
Read More »The PIM interview: State economist Tom Stinson on the origins of Minnesota’s structural deficit (and why it’s getting worse)
By now, anyone with the remotest interest in the state’s budget crisis has heard about the so-called "structural deficit" that’s become a regular part of ...
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