How they voted: On Tik Tok /1
WASHINGTON – The U.S. House voted 352-65 to require the social media app Tik [...]
Proposal: Minnesota insurers must cover wigs
ST. PAUL, Minn. – The Senate Commerce Committee unanimously approved a requirement that insurance [...]
Opponents of new state flag hit legal snag
ST. PAUL, Minn. – Republicans in the Legislature have run into a legal obstacle [...]
Finstad flyer straddles legal-ethical divide
WASHINGTON – Congressman Brad Finstad has blanketed southern Minnesota mailboxes with a slick four-color [...]
Minnesota House OKs school policing revision
ST. PAUL, Minn. – The Minnesota House voted 124-8 to fix a 2023 law [...]
Save-our-flag group to rally at Capitol
ST. PAUL, Minn. – A primarily rural group that calls itself Rocks and Cows [...]
How they voted: On government shutdown /2
WASHNGTON – The. U.S. Senate voted 75-22 for a $460 billion spending package to [...]
How they voted: On government shutdown /1
WASHINGTON – To head off a partial government shutdown, the U.S. House voted 320-99 [...]
Economists: Higher Minnesota state revenue ahead
ST. PAUL, Minn. – Judging from the latest state budget surplus projection, Minnesota’s economy [...]
Because EVs pose special dangers
MADISON, Wis. -- The Wisconsin Division of Motor Vehicles has printed 146,00 orange stickers [...]
First 2024 legislation fixes tax deduction goof-up
ST. PAUL, Minn. – The first legislation of 2024 has cleared the Minnesota Legislature [...]
State regulators slow Daley dairy expansion plan
LEWISTON, Minn. – The Daley dairy farm, already the largest in Winona County, has [...]
Federal grant to fund MSP terminal upgrades
Administration issued a $20 million grant for passenger-related projects at the Minneapolis-St. Paul airport. [...]
Walz: State flag sparring a distraction
ST.PAUL, Minn. – Governor Tim Walz is sidestepping the looming debate in the Legislature [...]
Draz on state seal, flag: Let people vote
MAZEPPA, Minn. -- Republican Senator Steve Drazkowski said he will introduce legislation to put [...]
Governor has treats all around for solons
ST. PAUL, Minn. – Governor Tim Walz made the rounds at the 2024 Legislature’s [...]
School policing update on State House fast-track
ST. PAUL, Minn. – Legislation to fix vexatious ambiguities in a new law on [...]
How they voted: On weapons, humanitarian aid / 2
WASHINGTON – The U.S. Senate voted 67-32 to debate a proposal for $95 billion [...]
How they voted: On war aid, border fixes / 1
WASHINGTON -- The U.S. Senate blocked a $188 billion package to continue sending weapons [...]
State budget: Fingers crossed at Southeast College
WINONA, Minn. – The dual-campus Southeast State College has lots on the line -- [...]
How they voted: On Homeland impeachment
WASHINGTON – The U.S. House voted 216-214 against impeaching President Biden’s Homeland Security secretary, [...]
Minnesota Senate has new majority leader
ST. PAUL, Minn. – Minnesota Senate Democrats selected Erin Murphy as their new majority [...]
Any ideas to reform winter parking? Anyone? Anyone?
WINONA, Minn. – At the City Council’s behest, Mayor Scott Sherman and City Manager [...]
Fillmore County lesson: New state flag, seal optional
PRESTON, Minn. – The Fillmore County Board decided against joining next-door Houston County’s opposition [...]
Cancer sidelines Minnesota Senate majority chief
ST. PAUL, Minn. – The majority leader in the Minnesota, Kari Dziedzic, announced that [...]
Grant seeks to extract Great Lakes waste gunk
ALEXANDRIA, Va. -- The National Science Foundation has awarded a $15 million grant to [...]
How they voted: On business tax, child care / 1
WASHINGTON – The U.S. House of voted 357-70 to pass a $78 billion package [...]
Cancer claims Minnesota Senator Dziedzic
MINNEAPOLIS -- Former Minnesota Senate Majority Leader Kari Dziedzic died midway through her current [...]
State tax coffers filling faster than expected
ST. PAUL, Minn. – The state’s economy, as measured by tax collections, finished 2023 [...]
House unit OKs physician-assisted suicide
ST. PAUL, Minn. – An overflow crowd packed a House Health Committee hearing on [...]
Start of a wildfire against new state flag?
WINONA, Minn. – Somebody from Winona, apparently a County Board member, seems keen against [...]
Plainview dairy again called out for polluting
PLAINVIEW, Minn. – The farmer-owned dairy co-op in Plainview has been fined again for [...]
The Walz influence on Minnesota Supreme Court
ST.PAUL, Minn. – Beginning this summer he majority of the justices on the Minnesota [...]
Miller again tries to loosen gambling limits
WINONA, Minn. – A southeast Minnesota state senator, Jeremy Miller, is taking a new [...]
Walz budget: $71.8 million for WSU project
WINONA, Minn. – The 2024 budget proposal going to the Legislature from Governor Tim [...]
Walz seeks $1 billion for bricks and mortar
ST. PAUL, Minn. – Governor Tim Walz laid out a near $1 billion spending [...]
Ex-Wisconsin state senator to Mayo lobbying job
LACROSSE, Wis, -- A former Wisconsin state senator, Jennifer Shilling, has been hired as [...]
Minnesota Supco Justice Chutich retires
ST. PAUL, Minn. – State Supreme Court Justice Margaret Chutich announced she will retire [...]
On Minnesota victory against Big Oil: “No done deed”
WASHINTON – A lobbyist for climate litigation praised Minnesota’s success in keeping a state lawsuit [...]
Large farm groups join Daley expansion fight
WINONA, Minn. – The Daley family has lined up farm organizations to support expanding [...]
Ellison’s jurisdictional triumph over Big Oil
ST. PAUL, Minn. – The state attorney general, Keith Ellison, was pleased but not [...]
Houston County: Transition to new flag too costly
CALEDONIA Minn. – The Houston County Board unanimously opposed the recently redesigned Minnesota state [...]
Menards gigged for denying pay to lactating workers
ST.PAUL, Minn. -- The Minnesota Department of Labor ordered the giant retailer Menards to [...]
Minnesota case against Big Oil nearer to trial
WASHIGTON – The U.S. Supreme Court sided with the State of Minnesota in its [...]
Wisconsin GOP ponders high risk move on abortion
MADISON, Wis. – Republicans in the state Legislature are considering a [...]
Daleys back in court to triple Lewiston dairy herd
LEWISTON, Minn. – The Daley dairy farm asked a state appeals court to overturn [...]
How they voted: On Biden impeachment process
WASHINGTON – The U.S. House voted 221-212 to proceed with an impeachment inquiry whether [...]
Welcome to Minnesota’s new state seal
ST. PAUL, Minn. – The State Emblems and Redesign Commission settled Ion a new [...]
Key Minnesota Republican sees ”fiscal cliff ahead”
COLD SRING, Minn. – Republicans in the Legislature are still moaning about how Democrats [...]
Economists: State spending to outpace revenue
ST. PAUL, Minn. – The state budget surplus is at $2.4 billion, according to [...]
Minnesota a step nearer to new state seal
ST. PAUL, Minn. – A lot of Minnesotans wanted the state bird – the [...]
Wisconsin judge sticks by pro-choice ruling
MADSION Wis. – A Dane County judge reaffirmed her previous ruling that state law [...]
Ellison: Derek Chauvin expected to survive
ST. PAUL, Minn. – The Minnesota attorney general, Keith Ellison, said he has been [...]
Daleys to appeal new judgment on feedlot caps
LEWISTON, Minn. – The primary litigant in the protracted Daley dairy farm battle against [...]
Thanksgiving: $5 million boost for food banks
Emergency hunger relief. From warehouses like this, drivers, forklift operators and volunteers help meet [...]
How they voted: On extending federal funding /2
WASHINGTON – The U.S. Senate voted 87-11 to keep funding the federal government at [...]
Threw out your tax rebate check? Not all is lost
ST. PAUL, Minn. – Rebate checks from the $18 billion state budget surplus have [...]
How they voted: On extending federal funding /1
WASHINGTON – The U.S. House voted 336-95 to keep the government open, averting a [...]
Right-wingers pile on against EPA groundwater order
WINONA, Minn. – Two southeast Minnesota legislators accused federal agents of showing up unannounced [...]
Farm lobbyist: Feds have cart ahead of horse
EAGAN, Minn. – The federal order for Minnesota to push ahead rapidly to mitigate [...]