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Minneapolis DFL City Council members walked in the annual Gay Pride Parade on Hennepin Avenue in downtown Minneapolis in June. AP Photo

National group runs anti-marriage amendment TV ad

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — A national group working to defeat the constitutional amendment banning gay marriage in Minnesota is launching its first TV ad. The group Freedom to Marry...

news Thu, Aug 16, 2012 - 9:56am

Outdoors funding advocates -- including Steve Morse of the Minnesota Environmental Partnership, left, and Duluth resident Dave Zentner of the Izaak Walton League -- say they are watching closely how lawmakers handle recommendations for spending new sales tax revenue on habitat conservation and water cleanup projects. Photo by Scott Wente, St. Paul Capitol Bureau.

Conservationists watching outdoor money carefully

By Scott Wente St. Paul Capitol Bureau ST.

news Fri, Apr 10, 2009 - 5:07pm

Peterson in Europe to talk swap rules

By Janell Cole and Don Davis Forum Communications U.S. Rep. Collin Peterson, D-Minn., left for Europe this weekend to discuss ways to regulate little-known and difficult-to-understand "credit default swaps." The...

agriculture Tue, Dec 02, 2008 - 12:00am

Debate Saturday to highlight outdoors, arts amendment

DULUTH - A constitutional amendment question that is buried amid pre-election presidential and senatorial campaigns will be featured at a Saturday debate. In the Nov. 4 election, Minnesota voters are...

Tue, Oct 14, 2008 - 12:00am

Former U.S. Sen. Rod Grams speaks out against a proposal to increase the state sales tax to support outdoors and arts programs. He said the increase would cost Minnesotans $11 billion over the 25-year life of the higher tax. Photo by Don Davis, St. Paul Capitol Bureau.

Outdoors amendment: Voters asked to tax themselves

By Don Davis St. Paul Capitol Bureau ST. PAUL - Most Minnesotans agree the state's water needs to be cleaned up. They support parks, trails and the wide variety of...

Sat, Oct 04, 2008 - 12:00am

Fair poll: Support for outdoors, arts amendment

Nearly 50 percent of those participating in the 2008 House of Representatives State Fair Poll support raising the state's sales tax by three-eighths of 1 percent with the money dedicated...

Sat, Sep 06, 2008 - 12:00am