GOVERNMENT NEWS
Absentee ballot changes pass
Minnesotans should find absentee voting easier this year than in the controversial 2008 U.S. Senate election, when counting stretched for months after the November vote.By Don Davis , March 09, 2010
Alexandria approves design plans for new police station
Alexandria City Council members – and the public – now have a better idea of what a new Alexandria police station will look like.March 09, 2010
Political Notebook: Bonding bill all set ... or not 
A newly revised public works funding bill that would spend $986 million on projects across Minnesota is firm, set in stone, ready to pass both the House and Senate in the next few days. Maybe.
By Don Davis , March 06, 2010
Bill lifting nuclear power plant ban to receive hearing today
A Senate committee will decide today, Thursday, if it supports lifting a Minnesota ban on new nuclear power plants.
By Andrew Tellijohn , March 04, 2010
Construction firm's suspension dominates town hall meeting
Senator Bill Ingebrigtsen, R-Alexandria, and Representative Torrey Westrom, R-Elbow Lake, spent a few minutes on February 19 talking with constituents at DeToys in Morris about the state budget, the bonding bill and Governor Tim Pawlenty’s veto of the General Assistance Medical Care extension.
By By Sue Dieter, Morris Sun Tribune , March 03, 2010
Minnesota budget improves a little
Minnesota's budget numbers are a bit better today, but not enough for state officials to celebrate.
By Don Davis , March 02, 2010
House sustains GAMC veto
The Minnesota House upheld Gov. Tim Pawlenty's veto of a health-care program for Minnesota's poorest residents Monday, allowing negotiations on the subject to continue.
By Don Davis , March 02, 2010
Detroit Lakes contemplates local sales tax, food/beverage tax
The City of Detroit Lakes is moving ahead on establishing a food/beverage/entertainment tax, and preparing to ask for a local option sales tax when the state lifts the moratorium at the end of 2010.
By Pippi Mayfield , February 28, 2010
Court cuts to hit small counties hardest
Further state budget cuts will mean longer waits for cases to go through Minnesota's court system, judicial leaders say, and small counties will be hardest hit.
By Don Davis , February 27, 2010
Sheriff deputies taking over State Patrol duties?
County governments would take over most state road maintenance work, State Patrol duties and could levy a half-cent sales tax under a plan they unveiled Tuesday.
By By Don Davis, State Capitol Bureau and Scott Wente, Woodbury Bulletin , February 26, 2010
Families take dairy frustrations
Children fussed. Parents cried. Senators were outraged.
Bureaucrats explained. “We have been pushed into the living conditions of a third-world country,” Jeff Brouse told a Senate health committee hearing about a three-year effort to clean up a rural Thief River Falls dairy operation.
By By Don Davis, State Capitol Bureau , February 26, 2010
Farm lawmakers see cuts coming
Farm-area legislators fear that agriculture programs are being cut more than other departments as Minnesota officials look to balancing the state budget.
By Don Davis , February 25, 2010
Pawlenty meets with bonding, GAMC leaders
The governor and legislators are meeting over two sticky issues that had appeared ready to implode.
By Andrew Tellijohn and Don Davis , February 25, 2010
UPDATE: Veto planned but bill not there
Gov. Tim Pawlenty's promised veto of a public works funding bill did not happen today because legislative leaders used a rare parliamentary maneuver to hold on to the bill a bit longer.
By Andrew Tellijohn and Don Davis , February 23, 2010
Bonding veto glitch: Bill not there
Gov. Tim Pawlenty promised to veto a nearly $1 billion public works bill passed by the Legislature, but the Legislature decided not to send it to him.
By Andrew Tellijohn , February 23, 2010
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