Minnesota

Nurses demand higher staffing from Minnesota hospitals

By Max Nesterak Ericka Helling is used to being attacked on the job. She’s been bitten, slapped, kicked. “And that’s just a part of the day,” said Helling,

Minnesota legislative session ends, still with a long to-do list

By Michelle Griffith A narrowly divided Legislature adjourned Monday without completing a state budget for the next two years, ending the session just as it began: with rancorous finger pointing.

The Topline: Tens of thousands of Minnesotans to lose health insurance

By Christopher Ingraham Welcome to The Topline, a weekly roundup of the big numbers driving the Minnesota news cycle, as well as the smaller ones that you might have missed.

Dumping costs on to local property taxpayers is a shifty way to balance the state budget

We’ve been down this road before: When the state faced deficits in the first decade of this century, the state started many of these cost shifts and reduced aid to counties and cities. As a result, property taxes increased by record high percentages that have not been matched since.

House passes housing budget, must hash out differences with Senate

By Madison McVan The Minnesota House passed a housing budget bill Tuesday, featuring funding boosts for homelessness prevention and affordable housing development, plus $100 million in bonds for financing housing

Q&A with new president of Education Minnesota, the state’s largest union

U.S. Education Department to restart defaulted student loan collections

"The Biden Administration misled borrowers: the executive branch does not have the constitutional authority to wipe debt away, nor do the loan balances simply disappear." -- U.S. Secretary of Education Linda McMahon