Web tools to help you track your finances

Thanks to Mint.com , I know my family spent $188 at McDonald’s, $702 on kid clothes and $124 on movies and DVDs in 2009. Mint.com and a handful of sites like it work by linking to your bank accounts and credit cards and downloading the information into a single, easy-to-use interface.

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.