Health care plan for poor adults on fast track in Minnesota Senate

A bill to rescue a state-run health care program for the poor took its first hesitant step Monday toward becoming law.

Minnesota campaign watchdog fines Kelliher, DFL

A state oversight committee fined House Speaker Margaret Anderson Kelliher’s gubernatorial campaign $9,000 and the state Democratic-Farmer-Labor committee $15,000 over a campaign finance deal that had Democrats and Republicans alike crying foul.