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Gov. Tim Pawlenty says the disputed spending cuts he'll make next Wednesday "may be different in scale, but ... not different in kind" from those made by other governors.

A reader writes: "I've got a Weber Smokey Mountain Cooker/Smoker. Where do you recommend I go for "clean" pasture pork? I used to hit up Farm in the Market at the Midtown Global Market.

Click to enlarge 1 of 1 The board's split vote on Monday puts the proposal up for a public vote this fall.

Another Minnesota Demo-crat officially jumped into the 2010 governor's race Sunday, making the field of candidates trying to succeed GOP Gov.

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There was a greater chance for severe weather in the Gulf States, with strong winds, heavy downpours and frequent lightning.

This will be UMD's largest commencement ever with 1,200 students and over 100 faculty members marching in the event.

Rep. Paul Marquart told fellow House-Senate tax negotiators that Jackson County, Minn., was named after territorial legislator Henry Jackson.

To break a standoff over taxes and spending, Minnesota Democratic legislative leaders on Thursday devised a backup plan to link funding for popular education and health care programs with some potentially acceptable tax increases that lawmakers could enact - with or without Gov.

Published Monday, April 27, 2009 ST. PAUL a ' What to do about taxes is the most controversial of many controversial money issues in the Minnesota Legislature and now the House and Senate have passed different plans.

Twenty-five years of summer fun will be celebrated in Perham June 17-21, as a oeTurtle Festa marks its Silver Anniversary.

IIn Hennepin County Court, Dominique C.D. Cook lunged at his public defender, Fay Nosow, and hit her face.

The Cloquet community is invited to join together for worship on Palm Sunday, April 5, at Our Saviora s Lutheran Church in Cloquet for the installation of Pastor Paul T. Hadland as senior pastor.

Q I just bought one of those inexpensive plastic mandolines so I can make scalloped potatoes for Easter dinner.

Minnesota legislators are nearly 11 weeks into their 2009 session, but only now are getting a look at outlines of their main task this year - writing a two-year budget.

A key Senate Democrat says it will take more than one tax increase to raise $2 billion in new tax revenue.

An airplane trying to take off from Lake Vermilion in St. Louis County wound up crashing onto the lake.

A plane trying to take off from Lake Vermillion in St. Louis County wound up crashing onto the lake.

ST. PAUL a ' The richest Minnesotans would pay more taxes and schools would lose $1 billion under a Democratic-Farmer-Laborite plan.

There is concern over the financing for a proposed steel mill in Nashwauk, and now the governor is getting involved.