My son doesn’t want to get married. He just wants for anyone who chooses the covenant of marriage to have that choice.

This semester a class of graduate students at Hamline University worked on a blueprint to end poverty. Their framework might be useful to the task force.

The three largest insurers in Minnesota will have phased out their coverage by the end of the year, each citing competitive pressures — unless the Legislature intervenes this session.

The Senate tax bill extends further down the income ladder than the House's and governor's proposals, but stops well short of affecting middle-class families.

Establishing responsible and sustainable water legislation is a major component of moving our nation into water security.

The sales tax is already a large burden on lower-income Minnesotans. Transit advocates want to quadruple the current transit tax to a full penny.

If you paddle Ella Hall Lake this summer, you’ll see the top of AT&T’s new 450-foot cell phone tower, with its white strobe light blinking by day and its red beacon light flashing by night.

In Jack Ohman's cartoon, Texas Gov. Rick Perry is pictured boasting about his state’s low-tax and low-regulation environment. Next to that is shown the recent blast.

The governor cannot have it both ways. Either he defends the right to clean water and air, or he continues to dismantle legislation designed to protect those rights.