State Sen. Dick Day (R-Owatonna) announced he’ll be stepping down to become the head of Racino Now, a group lobbying legislators to get slot and video games approved at Canterbury Park and Running Aces racetracks. (The URL RacinoNow.com is…
Public funding for a new Vikings stadium didn’t get far at the state Legislature this year, but lobbyists didn’t come up completely dry either: The Minnesota House of Representatives has put the issue on its annual State…
Two news stories today show the toll that leaner and meaner state budgets are taking on two long-established state functions: providing a functional court system and building stadiums for professional sports teams.
Hennepin County commissioners learned Thursday that they’ll have to pay $500,000 to stop the stink from the county’s downtown garbage burner from entering the new, county-sales-tax-funded, open-air Minnesota Twins stadium next door. It’s exactly the kind of thing environmental activist Leslie Davis predicted when he sued for further environmental study of the Twins’ ballpark plans.
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