The state Senate has passed a budget bill for this year, keeping spending at the same level it was this past year at $47.6B. The bill passed with a vote of 27 t ...

It’s an issue affecting everyone from schools to cities, counties and even state governments: When it comes to federal ...

Law mandating receipt was born out of a bipartisan push to build more transparency into the tax-and-budget system.

The Minnesota Department of Human Services' latest analysis of the federal tax and spending bill, signed into law on July 4, anticipates that 140,000 Minnesotans could lose their Medicaid coverage.

What happens at state and federal government levels typically trickle down to county and other local levels of government.

Directed payments were going to net an additional $1 billion for Minnesota hospitals, but federal changes gutted those predicted gains.