Column: Use Minnesota budget surplus to improve our competitiveness
Daily GlobeDOUG LOONMinnesota Chamber of CommerceBy Doug Loon, Minnesota Chamber of CommerceST. PAUL — The recent forecast of a $1.87 billion budget surplus is a perfect backdrop to...
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Updating IDs important enough for special session, Dayton says
Daily GlobeST. PAUL — Enhancing Minnesota driver’s licenses is important enough to warrant a special legislative session, even if nothing else is on the agenda, Gov. Mark Dayton told reporters...
View ArticleFire deaths highest in MN since 2011
Daily GlobeFARGO — Four deaths in Minnesota this month have pushed the number of fire fatalities this year to the state's highest level since 2011.The numbers are not as grim...
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Coming up roses: Shire six-horse hitch to be featured in Tournament of Roses...
Daily GlobeIONA — A team of six Shire horses trained and boarded on a rural Iona farm will grace television screens in homes across the country Friday morning as Pasadena, Calif.,...
View ArticleMinnesota Supreme Court rules warrantless DWI urine tests unconstitutional
Daily GlobeST. PAUL — The Minnesota Court of Appeals on Monday held that the state cannot prosecute drivers for refusing to submit to warrantless urine tests.Reversing the Steele County conviction...
View ArticleSnowmobilers rescued after breaking through thin ice
Daily GlobeGARRISON — Four people broke through the ice and a man spent about an hour in the cold waters of a northern Minnesota lake Saturday before emergency personnel rescued him....
View ArticleChristmas package delivered, taken eight minutes later, video shows
Daily GlobeST. PAUL — When a St. Paul woman realized a Christmas present she bought online for her husband hadn’t arrived, he checked their home’s video surveillance system.What Sean Morell...
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Winter storm begins socking Midwest
Daily GlobeST. PAUL — Monday’s weather radar showed a gradual winter storm advance into Minnesota and Wisconsin, with heavy snow predicted for much of the southeastern two-thirds of Minnesota and...
View ArticleLetter: Town Hall event addresses deer hunting
Daily GlobeI hosted a Town Hall on Dec. 22 for concerned deer hunters in southwest Minnesota to express their frustrations regarding the Minnesota Department of Natural Resource’s (DNR) management of...
View ArticleTop priority for Legislature: fix existing stuff
Daily GlobeST. PAUL — Don’t expect the Minnesota Legislature to spend a ton of money on glitzy new buildings next year.The leaders of the House and Senate bonding committees say...
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