State Government
“If you are not in with your paperwork by June first, I cannot guarantee,” you will get a REAL ID by the Oct. 1 federally mandated deadline, said Emma Corrie, director of the state’s Driver and Vehicle Services division.
State Government
Meanwhile, at the Legislature, bills by Republicans and DFLers are also seeking to respond to the reality and perception that Metro Transit trains and buses aren’t safe.
State Government
All members of the House and Senate are meeting at the Humphrey School of Public Affairs for an all-day gathering called the “One Minnesota Legislative Policy Conference.”
State Government
With the House and Senate still split between the DFL and the GOP and a critical election on the horizon in November, the session could end with few accomplishments.
State Government
What was supposed to be a meeting on Wednesday to consider responses to increased crime on Metro Transit’s light rail lines dissolved into an argument over who should be the chair of the joint commission that oversees the Met Council.
State Government
The explanations offered by both Democrats and Republicans have to do with the pharmaceutical industry.
State Government
The discussion came amid growing concerns that the emerging technologies threaten privacy and civil liberties.
State Government
Why are voters’ party preferences not private? And is anybody trying to do anything about it?
Politics & Policy
The 2019 hearing was so expensive for the Minnesota Department of Corrections — and so disruptive to daily operations of Stillwater prison — that the department discouraged a request from legislators to hold additional hearings at other facilities.
State Government
“It’s crazy that we’re getting into those questions,” said Minnesota Commissioner of Corrections Paul Schnell. “If we’re in the second-chance business, we need to make sure we’re providing second chances and not excluding people.”
State Government
GOP leaders have objected to the price tag, but Walz’s plan is well within the debt guidelines crafted a decade ago by the Office of Management and Budget under the administration of GOP Gov. Tim Pawlenty.
National
Klobuchar admitted that the impeachment trial in the Senate will be a challenge for her presidential efforts. “What I’m going to do is just keep going whenever I can back to the early states,” she said. “I don’t need a lot of sleep, which is good.”
Politics & Policy
“We have to assess what the best strategy is for building support for ultimate passage rather than try to rush something through before it is ready,” says DFL House Majority Leader Ryan Winkler. “Or creating a lot of opposition unnecessarily.”
State Government
The governor answers 10 questions (more or less) on the one-year anniversary (more or less) of being sworn in as the 41st governor of Minnesota.
State Government
Opponents of the five-year limit said that while they favor reform, the process for adopting it has been rushed.
