A Minnesota House committee has given final approval to a nearly $500 million renovation and expansion of its office building, just three hours after members went public with the ballooning cost estimate.
The Minnesota State Office Building largely goes unnoticed by people driving by the State Capitol, but they’ll certainly notice the potential price tag to renovate the building.
The Republican Governors Association last week donated $750,000 to a local political fund, campaign finance records show, and the money is going toward an attack ad against Walz that falsely claims he said he wanted to "defund the police."
In three legislative hearings we reviewed, the impact of the THC legislation was never clearly explained, and not one lawmaker asked a question of the bill authors or experts who testified.