As Minnesota’s Republican Party was giddily tweeting the news that the party had fielded candidates for all 201 seats in the state Legislature for the first time in 30 years, the Independence Party of Minnesota was quietly celebrating its own milestone: 16 candidates for the Legislature in 2010, seven in Senate districts and nine in House districts.

The Minnesota House this afternoon approved a bill that would substantially alter the authority of the governor to "unallot" funds from the general fund budget.

U.S. Rep. Keith Ellison, D-Minn., has received the 2010 Edward W. Brooke III Housing Leadership Award from the National Low Income Housing Coalition.

Environmental advocates expected it, and it’s here: Minnesota legislators are looking to tap ostensibly protected pots of money to patch holes in the Minnesota general fund budget and find money for their priorities.

The state House on Wednesday launched into the turbulent skies of campaign finance policy.