by Nancy Crotti
Published: May 16, 2012
It’s hard for small cities to contend at the Capitol with heavyweights like Minneapolis and St. Paul, but they have a voice in Jill Sletten.
by Kevin Featherly
Published: May 16, 2012
After years of issuing routine warnings to boaters who violate invasive aquatic species laws, the state Department of Natural Resources says it is getting tough.
by Frank Jossi
Published: May 9, 2012
After a two-year planning effort, a five-block stretch in that neighborhood, from Galtier Street on the east to Mackubin Street on the west, has a new moniker: Little Mekong. The name derives from Southeast Asia’s famed Mekong River, with flowing water replaced by asphalt and a light rail line now under construction.
by Kevin Featherly
Published: May 9, 2012
The state is looking for professionals from the health care community to serve as volunteers on its 10-member Health Care Home certification committee.
by Kevin Featherly
Published: May 9, 2012
Paul Aasen is leaving his job as commissioner of the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency to take over as Minneapolis’ city coordinator. However, he says, it was not a case of leaping before he was pushed.
by Kevin Featherly
Published: May 2, 2012
Environmental lobbyist Gary Botzek was a major figure in the passage of the Legacy Amendment. That was the 2008 constitutional amendment that dedicates partial sales tax proceeds to maintain clean waterways, parks, and other cultural and environmental amenities.
by Kevin Featherly
Published: May 2, 2012
The Metropolitan Council has approved $15.4 million in grants to help fund 17 construction projects along current or future transit corridors.
by Kevin Featherly
Published: May 2, 2012
After initially resisting, the Minnesota Department of Human Services has agreed to split with the federal government a $30 million windfall the state received last year from the UCare health plan.
by Kevin Featherly
Published: April 25, 2012
Lobbyists around the Capitol used to call them “waterboarding sessions.” The man getting rhetorically drenched was Tom Hanson, Gov. Tim Pawlenty’s commissioner at Minnesota Management & Budget.
by Kevin Featherly
Published: April 25, 2012
The state’s candidate handbook has been revised so that it reads a lot less like the Torah and a lot more like a how-to manual.
