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How much would recreational marijuana be worth to Minnesota?
And does that justify legalization? A new political committee is trying to make the case.
Peter Callaghan
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HMOs have always been nonprofit in Minnesota. What happens when that changes?
A deal struck during the 2019 legislative session extends a moratorium preventing nonprofit HMOs to be purchased or convert to for-profit companies.
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The $100 million challenge: Budget deal requires ‘blue ribbon’ panel to find big savings in state health and human services spending
The 17-member commission has until October of 2020 to find the savings. If it fails, an equal amount will be taken from state reserves in the 2021-23 state budget.
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Walz’s bill-signing ceremonies: lots of ceremony, not so many actual bills
The Walz administration has created a new Capitol fixture: signing ceremonies for bills actually signed long ago.
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Legislature’s inaction turns St. Paul Saints into minimum-wage sinners
Meeting the state minimum wage presents a problem for the Saints. Team officials say it would put them in violation of their league’s salary caps and subject the team to expulsion from the American Association.
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A ‘thug’ no more? Minnesota’s most outspoken labor leader looks back at 14 years of being ‘loud and sometimes obnoxious’
As he prepares to step down as head of SEIU Local 26, Javier Morillo — the self-styled ‘thug in pastels’ — talks about how Minnesota politics has changed.
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Walz open to calling special session on emergency insulin access — if there’s bipartisan agreement on a solution
On Wednesday, the governor met with activists to discuss fighting rapid increases in the cost of insulin.
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House Speaker Melissa Hortman on how the 2019 legislative deal got done
They key to a relatively productive legislative session, says Hortman? Waiting until 2020 to wage the 2020 campaign.
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Voter data from Minnesota’s 2020 presidential primary will be given to the state’s major political parties — and only the political parties
What the parties do with the information is up to them, as long as they don’t use it for commercial purposes. The public will not have access to the same data.
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Despite some big wins at 2019 Legislature, affordable housing advocates say much more needs to be done
The state of Minnesota is hardly the only funding source for affordable housing projects — but it is often a key source.
