DFL Reps. Ann Lenczewski and Paul Marquart say property tax payers and local governments are losing out so the state can save more than $500 million.
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The Blue Jays have a hefty asking price for their starting pitcher.
This is not what the Twins had envisioned with an 11.5-game lead in early June.
The man went fishing Friday and was found Saturday.
It happened in the 1500 block of Plymouth Ave. N.
Her dock was among those that took major damage.
The girl's father and another child were in the car.
The 28-year-old is a member of a Twin Cities gang.
The incident happened in St. Croix County, Wisconsin.
DISH and Sling are the affected providers, but Sling says talks continue.
Another stormy day in Minnesota on Saturday.
Police have launched a homicide investigation.
The suburb is looking into what's known as the Property Assessed Clean Energy (PACE) program, which allows a local government to issue bonds on behalf of building owners who want to finance energy projects. Building owners then pay for the projects through surcharges on their property taxes. In effect, the energy savings finance the projects.
Gov. Dayton and lawmakers earlier this year replaced the homestead market value credit, which lowered many Minnesotans' property taxes, with a new program. But local governments say the new plan is raising property taxes significantly. And poor, rural Minnesotans are bearing the brunt of it.
City officials say merging the two funds will save Minneapolis property tax payers tens-of-millions of dollars a year. Mayor R.T. Rybak says the savings from the merger will help support no increases in the city's property tax levy.
DFL challenger Rick Nolan, rekindling his congressional career 30 years after he last served in the U.S. House, has defeated one-term Rep. Chip Cravaack, R-Minn., in one of the most closely watched and expensive U.S. House races in the nation.
The three DFL candidates running for Minnesota's 8th Congressional District debated in Duluth Tuesday often found themselves agreeing on the same policy issues, so they tried to differentiate themselves based on style and experience instead. Tarryl Clark, Rick Nolan and Jeff Anderson will find out next Tuesday who the voters want to take on Republican U.S. Rep. Chip Cravaack.
A passion for history led Audrey and Jerry Majerus to restore a 110-year-old one-room school house on their rural property near Fort Ripley, Minn., complete with period school desks and a bell outside the entrance.
The DNR says hunters have harvested 143,000 deer so far this season, down only 7 percent from the same point last year.
Special elections today will decide who will take over two vacant Senate seats. Linda Scheid served 34 years in the Legislature before losing a fight with ovarian cancer. Linda Berglin served Minneapolis for nearly four decades before stepping down and taking a job with Hennepin County.
