With just two weeks remaining to sort out broad deals on tax relief, transportation funding and other spending plans, Minnesota's Legislature is locked in a stare down.
State lawmakers are weighing how to address a string of assaults against teachers in Minnesota classrooms. Education chairwoman Rep. Jenifer Loon began a push Tuesday for a measure clarifying teachers' authority to remove students from their classrooms.
Get ready for a strange session of Minnesota's Legislature. Lawmakers were set to return to St. Paul Tuesday with just 10 weeks to tackle a long to-do list. But the short timeline isn't the only reason it's odd.
Nearly a month before the Legislature returns with a nice $1.2 billion surplus in hand, lawmakers have already laid out hundreds of millions of dollars in plans to spend it.