Between late afternoon Tuesday and early Wednesday morning, the Minnesota Legislature passed budget bills that will fund more than $35 billion in state government and end the 19-day shutdown. Most lawmakers, however, didn’t have time to read the bills, which were only made available in the hours just before the votes.
The Minneapolis park board is planning to use $1.7 million in Metropolitan Council funds to buy a piece of Mississippi riverfront property from the family business of a Met Council member.
As state funding to local government shrinks, raising cash by selling off Mississipi River bluff parkland for development has proved tempting for both the metro’s biggest city and one of its smallest urban entities.
Despite sizable resident…
Bottineau Boulevard, a lesser-known transit route that would run from downtown Minneapolis to the northwest suburbs, got a big boost Tuesday when the Hennepin County Regional Railroad Authority OK’d spending $1 million on an alternatives…
Legislators mulling measures to reform the Metropolitan Council so far aren’t hearing an outcry from the colonies — er, Met Council districts – calling for the right to actually elect their representatives. “The council has taxing authority,” Lakeville’s city administrator…
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