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Dayton signs budget bills, ending Minnesota shutdown
Gov. Mark Dayton signed into law a slate of just-passed budget bills this morning, bringing an end to a historic 20-day government shutdown that was the longest known shuttering in history.
View ArticleSurplus likely to mean more GOP tax cut proposals
An unexpected $876 million surplus has turned last session’s fiscal calculus on its head. But for Republicans, it seems the policy and political calculations looking to 2012 are the same, even if...
View ArticleGOP eyes phase-out of business property tax
The statewide business property tax has long been the bane of Minnesota’s business community, and this legislative session, both Republican majorities at the Capitol are looking to do away with it once...
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