Mn Leg News Today

Columnist Jim Shaw writes that the Minnesota Legislature focused on important issues to help families, workers, women and minorities. Meanwhile, "those issues don't matter" to Republicans in Bismarck.

Walzs borrowing plan comes days after the release of his two-year state budget proposal.

The Senate is expected to debate the proposal next week.

Minnesota school districts would see a major funding boost under the proposed plan.

The proposal takes aim at the effects of "period poverty."

Legislation passed in the House last year is back in new form.