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Tax deal reached in final weekend of session at Minnesota Capitol

MINNEAPOLIS — Seniors would no longer pay taxes on social security income, millions of Minnesotans could see a small income tax cut and tens of thousands of families and renters across the state would be eligible for more tax credits under a sweeping deal struck Saturday at the divided Capitol.

Tribune News Service · May 21, 2022

Minnesota GOP backs Scott Jensen in race to unseat Gov. Tim Walz

MINNEAPOLIS — Scott Jensen won the Minnesota Republican Party's endorsement for governor on Saturday, picking up his party's backing on the strength of a campaign built around opposition to pandemic restrictions and concern about COVID-19 vaccines.

Tribune News Service · May 15, 2022

Minnesota GOP reconvenes to back candidate for governor

Minnesota Republicans have reconvened to endorse a candidate to challenge Democratic Gov. Tim Walz, a day after delegates picked political outsider Jim Schultz to try to unseat Attorney General Keith Ellison

The Independent UK · May 14, 2022

Dennis Anderson: Tradition, ritual — and Minnesotans — are losers in Governor's Fishing Opener fiasco

In June 1973, Minnesota Gov. Wendy Anderson was on Basswood Lake on the Ontario border, fishing with Gerry Bibeau of Ely, who in addition to being an excellent angler was a first-rate barber.

Tribune News Service · Apr 6, 2022

Minnesota Gov. Walz receives $2.5 million, with Brenda and Charles Kratsch as top donor

In Minnesota, Gov. Tim Walz is the number one fundraiser in state politics in the 2022 election cycle so far. According to the most recent campaign finance reports made to the Minnesota Campaign Finance and Public Disclosure Board, the governor received $2,453,591 in total contributions and spent $1,324,421 between January…

Ballotpedia · Mar 29, 2022

Minneapolis schools reach tentative agreement with union representing teachers and support staff

MINNEAPOLIS — Minneapolis Public Schools and its teachers and support staff have reached tentative contract agreements that could end the strike that has shuttered schools for weeks.

Tribune News Service · Mar 26, 2022

Minnesota Gov. Walz orders state agencies to cut ties with Russia

MINNEAPOLIS — Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz is directing more than two dozen state agencies to terminate any contracts with Russian entities, as states across the nation join the federal government in imposing sanctions on Russia following its invasion of Ukraine.

Tribune News Service · Mar 5, 2022

Dennis Anderson: Wyoming’s present could be Minnesota’s CWD future.

At the Capitol, Gov. Tim Walz and legislators again this session seem willing to keep Minnesota deer and elk farmers in business, while hoping simultaneously to quell the growing disquiet among hunters over the spread of chronic wasting disease (CWD) in the state's approximately 1 million wild whitetails.

Tribune News Service · Feb 23, 2022

Rep. Jim Hagedorn, two-term Minnesota Republican, dies at 59 - Roll Call

Rep. Jim Hagedorn, a two-term Minnesota Republican, has died at age 59. The outspoken conservative had kidney cancer.

Roll Call · Feb 18, 2022

Gov. Walz deploys National Guard for civil rights trial of three former Minneapolis officers

MINNEAPOLIS — Gov. Tim Walz has authorized the Minnesota National Guard to provide security assistance in St. Paul during the federal civil rights trial of three former Minneapolis police officers charged in connection with George Floyd's death.

Tribune News Service · Feb 5, 2022