State Politics

A bevy of Minnesota gubernatorial candidates are spending quality face time with a local audience that’s not quite old enough to vote.

Members of the traveling public, transportation stakeholders, rail providers and local government officials are invited to comment on development of the Minnesota Department of Transportation’s 2009 Comprehensive Statewide Freight and Passenger Rail Plan.

McLeod For Tomorrow is bringing elected and appointed officials together next week to discuss the upcoming 2010 legislative session.

The fact that Minnesota's unemployment rate fell 0.7 percent to a seasonally adjusted 7.3 percent in September doesn’t mean state employers went on a hiring spree last month.

Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development Commissioner Dan McElroy is scheduled to release September unemployment figures for the state during a press conference 9 a.m.

A slew of Democratic gubernatorial hopefuls were in Biscay Saturday for the McLeod County DFL’s Fall Festival. Everyone but State Rep. Tom Rukavina of Virginia and former U.S. Sen.

As part of a three-day tour through southwest Minnesota, the state Senate’s capital investment committee met with advocates of asphalt paving for the Luce Line Trail Thursday (Sept. 17).

The Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development has spent or made commitments to spend about $287 million in federal stimulus funding, about 92 percent of the $311 million that the agency received under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.