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Walz says his administration must strike a better balance between generosity and preventing fraud

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December 14, 2025

Minnesota nursing home workers will have to wait for raises because state dropped the ball on paperwork

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December 13, 2025

Why testing for the Green Line Extension is going to take more than a year

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December 13, 2025

Minnesota’s budget is headed for an imbalance, but who or what’s to blame? We asked economists to weigh in

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December 9, 2025

Talking points for all. Amid wild federal uncertainty, here is what to know about Minnesota’s economic outlook.

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December 6, 2025

Massive changes to federal funds to end homelessness reopen debate over solutions

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December 3, 2025

In a K-shaped economy, is there anything Minnesota can do to bridge widening gaps?

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November 28, 2025

Minnesota lawmakers spotlight impact of canceled federal higher education grants

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November 16, 2025

Minnesota River restoration, long a labor of love for advocates, could be getting a boost from the state

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November 14, 2025

Minnesota’s hemp-produced THC beverage and edible industry reels from provision to outlaw products in shutdown bill

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November 12, 2025

D.C. Memo: Ken Martin takes a victory lap

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November 8, 2025

New faces, same balance of power: special elections don’t change split House and DFL-controlled Senate

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November 6, 2025

Will Minnesota governor’s race chill collaboration in 2026 legislative session?

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November 4, 2025

Minnesota’s Affordable Care Act marketplace is about to become unaffordable. What happened?

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October 31, 2025

Minnesotans are changing spending habits as inflation keeps squeezing budgets

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October 29, 2025

Minnesota looks for loose change to support 440,000 residents about to lose SNAP benefits

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October 28, 2025

Here’s how much federal money Minnesota school districts receive

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October 23, 2025

A New Deal revival: Why labor unions love the Minnesota Nursing Home Workforce Standards Board

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October 20, 2025

How dire are Minnesota nursing home finances? Hidden revenue makes it hard to judge

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October 19, 2025

‘Really taxing mentally and physically’: The travails of working in a nursing home

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October 18, 2025

Minnesota has a plan to turn around nursing homes’ staffing crisis. Nursing home operators say it’s a death knell.

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October 17, 2025

Not breaking: Tim Walz wants an assault weapons ban. Minnesota Republicans don’t

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October 1, 2025

50 years later, from addiction to recovery and resilience

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September 29, 2025

Stuck in the mud on assault weapons ban, Walz floats idea of constitutional amendment

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September 29, 2025

At heated Senate hearing, Minnesota Republicans did not budge on guns

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September 18, 2025

Annunciation parents’ pain dominates Minnesota Capitol gun violence hearing

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September 16, 2025

Following shootings, free trainings focus on a vital type of first aid anyone can do

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September 14, 2025

No shenanigans: In rise to House DFL leader, Stephenson praised as pragmatic policy wonk

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September 13, 2025

Walz’s urgency to act on gun violence runs into political reality in divided Legislature

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September 6, 2025

With the low-hanging fruit already picked, Capitol security focus moves to guns

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August 26, 2025

‘I’m ready:’ Sue Abderholden, longtime advocate for Minnesotans with mental illness, is stepping down

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August 24, 2025

How Minnesota led the way on smoking restrictions – and what that says about the state today

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August 20, 2025

To combat gun violence, Minnesota law enforcement turns to ‘red flag’ law

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August 19, 2025

As West Nile mosquitoes thrive in the metro, an expert offers protective tips

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August 19, 2025

Minnesota economists, researchers fear politicization of jobs data

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August 12, 2025

What Minnesota’s new data law means for how your personal information is used

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August 7, 2025

The DFL loathes One Big Beautiful Bill. But what do Minnesota legislative Republicans think?

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July 21, 2025

Minnesota needs immigrants to propel population growth. How will federal policy affect that?

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July 20, 2025

Trump’s win on domestic agenda makes winners of some Minnesotans, losers of others

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July 9, 2025

D.C. Memo: In wake of Trump’s big win, Minnesota GOPers downplay Medicaid cuts while Dems decry them

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July 4, 2025

Is there more political violence? Here’s what the limited research shows

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July 1, 2025

Pizza terrorism, online vitriol and now murder: Lawmakers fear for their safety and don’t know how to change that

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June 23, 2025

Demystifying Vance Boelter’s unremarkable tenure on the Governor’s Workforce Development Board

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June 19, 2025

For Juneteenth celebrants, it’s a time to reflect – and regroup

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June 18, 2025

‘A woman with strength and experience’: Speaker Lisa Demuth mourns legislative counterpart, Melissa Hortman

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June 17, 2025

‘Her mirthful eyes, her sharp humor’: Colleagues remember Melissa Hortman, assassinated at age 55

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June 14, 2025

Minnesota lawmakers grit teeth, pass state budget in crammed special session

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June 11, 2025

What to know about Legislature’s Monday special session to finish the budget

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June 8, 2025

How the Minnesota Legislature’s struggle to complete a state budget measures up: Exceptional, terrible, or neither?

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June 3, 2025

Minnesota’s next Human Services budget will curb nursing home, disability payments

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May 29, 2025

To those closest to him, he was Perry or Floyd

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May 25, 2025

The Minnesota Legislature never really adjourned. It just went behind closed doors

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May 22, 2025

Budget breakthrough? What Gov. Walz and the Legislature did and didn’t accomplish

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May 16, 2025

Minnesota Medicaid explained: Who’s on it, how much it costs, what could change

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May 14, 2025

Braver Angels spreads its ‘building bridges’ gospel across Greater Minnesota

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May 4, 2025

Is the Minnesota House’s power-sharing agreement unraveling?

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May 2, 2025

The Minnesota Legislature has 99 problems. The split House might not be one

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April 24, 2025

Targets, forecasts and elephants in the room: Inside Minnesota’s attempt to complete a budget

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April 17, 2025

D.C. Memo: The drama continues with Trump’s turnabout on tariffs

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April 13, 2025

DOGE cuts trim funding for arts and humanities efforts in Minnesota

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April 9, 2025

After latest brutal Southwest LRT audit, some lawmakers question the point of the Met Council

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April 8, 2025

How Minnesota spending on education might change under new state budget, federal threats

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April 7, 2025

Trump’s sweeping tariffs policy puts Minnesota farmers in bull’s-eye

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April 3, 2025

Looming state budget deficit’s cause is somewhere in between Trump’s ‘destructive chaos’ and DFL trifecta’s ‘irresponsible spending spree’

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March 8, 2025

‘Our ideas finally get a hearing’: House GOP targets paid family leave during fleeting majority rule

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March 4, 2025

Minnesota under threat after Trump Justice Department sues ‘sanctuary’ states Illinois and New York

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February 26, 2025

Sports betting’s latest challenge in Minnesota: skepticism of sportsbooks, big tech

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February 24, 2025

Tina Smith’s decision to retire provokes interest in Senate run from Walz, Flanagan and other Dems

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February 16, 2025

Three weeks and many court hearings later, a tied Minnesota House figures out how to share power … again

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February 9, 2025

Next U.S. attorney in Minnesota expected to play role in immigration crackdown

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February 6, 2025

MinnPost’s user guide to the Great 2025 Minnesota House Quorum Wars

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February 5, 2025

Legislative chaos goes bicameral: Mitchell issue returns to tied Senate; House can’t officially meet without DFL

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January 30, 2025

Walz, lawmakers search for the right solution to prevent fraud in state government

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January 27, 2025

After calling Minnesota House ‘dysfunctional,’ Supreme Court rules in DFL’s favor

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January 25, 2025

Unforced errors put DFL House in worse-than-a-tie position, but GOP’s high hopes for a majority could end in court

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January 22, 2025

How Walz’s proposed ‘tax cut’ would actually raise $108 million a year to help state budget

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January 17, 2025

Is Minnesota House GOP ignoring the courts in dispute over Tabke’s seat? Not really

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January 16, 2025

A pre-session hearing on sports betting’s harms was aimed at slowing bill’s momentum. Will it?

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January 14, 2025

What does Minnesota law, state constitution say about legislative quorums?

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January 13, 2025

Minnesota leads again: No other state has ever begun a legislative session without clear majorities

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January 13, 2025

DNC chair candidate Ken Martin makes pitch to labor as party struggles to regain footing with blue-collar workers

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January 8, 2025

Amid court challenges and partisan maneuvering, can the Minnesota House even function this year?

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January 7, 2025

Morrison sworn in as newest Minnesota member of Congress amid celebrations – and some chaos

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January 4, 2025

‘Blue Dog’ DFL senators say Minnesota Legislature needs more wag, less bark

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December 18, 2024

The posturing and position-setting begins for Minnesota GOP, DFL legislative leaders

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December 12, 2024

With parts of the line completed, why can’t Southwest Light Rail trains roll?

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December 10, 2024

With budget deficits on the horizon, state lawmakers react along party lines

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December 7, 2024

State economists project a modest budget surplus, but future deficits loom

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December 5, 2024

Advocates lean on Walz to protect immigrants from Trump’s proposed raids

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November 29, 2024

Lame duck trifecta action via a special legislative session? Minnesota DFL leaders signal there’s no such plan

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November 25, 2024

Ideas for orchestrating progress with a tie in the Minnesota House could come from other states

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November 20, 2024

‘Workhorse’ Kelly Morrison learning the ropes as state’s newest member of Congress

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November 18, 2024

Walz: ‘Swallow a little bit of pride’ and find common ground with neighbors

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November 9, 2024

No exciting dominoes for Minnesota DFL as Walz says goodbye to VP dream and trifecta

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November 7, 2024

Secretary of State Steve Simon: Minnesota vote was ‘high turnout, low drama’

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November 6, 2024

Minnesota DFL holds state Senate but House appears tied

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November 6, 2024

How are votes certified in Minnesota?

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November 5, 2024

Election security measures and ‘curveball’ training in Minnesota, nation put to the test

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November 4, 2024

A new governor? A dismantled trifecta? Here’s what’s at stake in Minnesota this election

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November 4, 2024

Poll: Klobuchar leads White by 12 percentage points in U.S. Senate race

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October 31, 2024