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Smokers, top earners to pay more state taxes
Minnesota lawmakers worked right up to the end Monday before adjourning a session that produced $2.1 billion in tax hikes and a historic vote on ... Read more | Add your comment
Editorial: Hard to knock N.D. for plan to steal Minnesota jobs
That didn’t take long. Gov. Mark Dayton and legislative leaders hadn’t even finished hammering out the details of their taxing and spending plans late last ... Read more | Add your comment
Drama expected in last hours of legislative session
ST. PAUL — Short on sleep and time, Minnesota lawmakers darted toward the finish Monday of a legislative session that produced a hefty tax increase, ... Read more | Add your comment
Poppe, Sparks watch as state nearing plan to raise taxes on top 2 percent
Many of the measures that Rep. Jeanne Poppe and Sen. Dan Sparks, both DFL-Austin, have previously touted will remain in the bill set to come ... Read more | Add your comment
Minimum wage bill looking unlikely
A minimum wage increase in Minnesota is looking less likely. Local legislators and business officials will wait to see whether the state’s representatives and senators ... Read more | Add your comment
Election 2012
Term II: US must help poor, elderly, Obama says
Declaring "our journey is not complete," President Barack Obama took the oath of office for his second term before a crowd of hundreds of thousands ... Read more | Add your comment
- Romney’s ’47 percent’ chosen as year’s best quote | Add your comment
- Update: No change after recount | Add your comment
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- Riverland instructor plans same-sex wedding for August | Add your comment
- Poll: Did lawmakers make the right decision in legalizing gay marriage? | Add your comment
- Heated debate on child-care unions moves to Minnesota Senate | Add your comment
- Another hole opens in Vikings stadium funding plan | Add your comment
- Locals react with joy, disappointment as Dayton signs gay marriage bill | Add your comment
- Poppe: Budget deal makes good on promises to voters | Add your comment
- For Minnesota gay marriage sponsors, it’s personal | Add your comment
- Council to hold next talk Saturday | Add your comment
- Update: Senate legalizes gay marriage, Sparks votes against bill | Add your comment
- Same-sex marriage bill faces last step | Add your comment
