DFL House Speaker Paul Thissen said Wednesday that the proposal lacked the necessary support to pass this session and would not be brought to the chamber floor.

Ordinary people, elected and unelected, behaved heroically last week. Unfortunately, it all happened hundreds of miles from Washington.

The Zellers endorsement comes on top of nearly three dozen House GOP caucus members who've backed Bills thus far.

Minnesota's very own Saturday Night Live comedian-turned U.S. Senator, Democrat Al Franken, is slowly showing hints of the spark he had before and during his run for Senate, according to a profile in the Washington Post.

The new Alliance for a Better Minnesota ad new ad attacking Republican gubernatorial candidate Tom Emmer has been put to the test three times now, and the results show the ad to be technically accurate, but misleading.

Minnesota's junior U.S. senator, Al Franken, got to take a turn in the President of the Senate's chair yesterday, and he made himself a YouTube hit with cheering Democratic blogs and jeering Republican ones when he cut off Connecticut Sen. (and former Democrat turned independent) Joe Lieberman during a Senate floor debate on health care yesterday.

The next big question in the long-running Franken-Coleman U.S. Senate saga is whether GOP Gov. Tim Pawlenty will sign the certificate seating Al Franken, making ...

At about 6:15 this evening, GOP Gov. Tim Pawlentysigned the election certificate for the U.S. Senate contest in Minnesota, making Democrat Al Franken the official ...

Friday’s Star Tribune brought word of another potential setback for Minnesota’s most famous furloughed worker. But for the first time in months, the news did ...

Friday’s Star Tribune brought word of another potential setback for Minnesota’s most famous furloughed worker. But for the first time in months, the news did ...