05/12/2017

The Constitution Party of Minnesota State Convention will be held on Saturday, June 3, 2017 10:00AM to 3:00PM at Penn Lake Library, Bloomington, MN. Speakers will be Retired Army Major, Alan Duff and Former State Representative, Mark Olson. Admission is $15 in advance; $20 at the door. Lunch provided. Convention notations: 1. Not a member yet click HERE for additional ($25.00 per person, $40.00 per married couple) information and joining. 2. Attend the convention ($15.00 per person) without

06/01/2017

Thirty thousand volunteers. 630,000 pounds of rice. 6 million meals. When Minnesota responds to tragedy — a famine threatening the lives of millions in Somalia — it goes big. They’ve got four days to do it. FULL STORY

06/01/2017

MADISON, Wis. — A federal appeals court says a transgender student who identifies as a male should be able to use the boys’ bathroom at his Wisconsin high school. FULL STORY

05/31/2017

The Metropolitan Council escaped the legislative session without being restructured, but language in one budget bill could open the door to more cities challenging the agency. FULL STORY

05/31/2017

Gov. Mark Dayton invited a high-stakes constitutional clash Tuesday by signing bills that will fund the executive branch while eliminating funding for the Legislature, leaving lawmakers with dwindling cash to continue operations. FULL STORY

05/31/2017

If you guessed that the University of California system would champion “sustainable” investing, you’d be correct. The catch is, the shelves in the sustainable investing aisle aren’t especially well-stocked with opportunities. FULL STORY

05/30/2017

Work will soon get underway across the state on $988 million in public construction projects funded in a bonding bill that Gov. Mark Dayton signed into law Tuesday. FULL STORY

05/26/2017

The Minnesota Legislature approved nearly half a billion dollars in new public school funding late Thursday. So why is the teachers union calling for its veto? FULL STORY

05/26/2017

Minnesota's lawmakers have passed a $46 billion budget after three extra days in session, several sleepless nights and some horse-trading. FULL STORY

05/22/2017

The Minnesota Legislature is dragging its feet toward a mandatory midnight adjournment of the regular session Monday with much of its work on creating a two-year, $46 billion state budget left undone. Each passing minute increases the likelihood overtime will be needed. FULL STORY

05/21/2017

At this writing, 30 hours remain in the 2017 Legislature’s regular session’s constitutional life span. Its main mission has not yet been accomplished. The Republican-controlled Legislature and DFL Gov. Mark Dayton have not agreed on the next two-year state budget. FULL STORY

05/20/2017

Minnesota lawmakers started assembling budget bills Saturday with no guarantee Gov. Mark Dayton would sign them, as the Democratic governor and Republican legislative leaders searched for a last-minute deal to finalize a spending package. FULL STORY

05/20/2017

Minnesota lawmakers have only two days left in their nearly five-month session and one huge, unfinished job in deciding how the state should spend $46 billion over the next two years. FULL STORY

05/18/2017

Gov. Mark Dayton on Thursday signed the bill to bring Minnesota driver’s licenses in line with upgraded federal security standards, finally ensuring that Minnesotans won’t have to use passports to get through airport security. FULL STORY

05/16/2017

Minnesotans: Your state lawmakers have found a way to get you driver’s licenses that the federal government will accept. FULL STORY

05/16/2017

ST. PAUL, Minn. – As Alpha News previously reported, the Minnesota Department of Education (MDE) is planning to roll out a “gender toolkit” for schools dealing with transgender and gender nonconforming students. Now scores of state lawmakers are speaking out against the directive. FULL STORY

05/11/2017

Gov. Mark Dayton is poised to start striking down Republican-crafted spending bills Friday, as a lengthening stalemate at the Capitol raises the likelihood of a messy end to the legislative session. FULL STORY

05/08/2017

Thursday, May 4, 2017, will go down as a watershed moment in political history. This day showed us the culmination of all of the vices of our 28-year addiction to the binary idolatry of politics. Under the false dichotomy of binary choices (“but you might get the Democrats”), we are left with a political system that looks like a bad unibrow. If we don’t engage in some serious... FULL STORY

05/08/2017

Republican lawmakers moved late Monday evening to send DFL Gov. Mark Dayton their own preferred budgets — abandoning, for now, attempts to find compromises in crafting Minnesota’s two-year, $46 billion budget. FULL STORY

04/24/2017

The "Real ID" issue is back on the agenda at the state capitol Monday. A conference committee is expected to meet Monday afternoon to work out differences between the House and Senate bills. FULL STORY