Michael OlsonThe World Economic Forum previously ranked the United States as No. 1 for its infrastructure. However, the country’s current ranking is No. 16 — a notch behind Malaysia. Read more →
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If lawmakers can’t work out their differences on education, jobs and energy, and agriculture and environment funding bills by the end of the fiscal year on June 30, the state will face a partial government shutdown. Read more →
The average American consumes more than 300 gallons of California water each week by eating food that was produced there,” reports the New York Times. Read more →
A Gallup poll released this week shows that Americans are feeling increasingly in economic retreat. Read more →
MPR News Staff“Keep in mind that the question that tripped up both Rubio and Jeb Bush was asked on Fox News,” writes New York Magazine’s Alex Carp.
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A key section of the Patriot Act — the part of law the White House uses to conduct mass surveillance on the call records of Americans — is set to expire June 1. Read more →
The Minnesota Legislature made its midnight deadline to pass a two-year $42 billion state budget, but only by rushing a vote on a jobs bill that most lawmakers had no time to read. Read more →
Over the course of the weekend, Gov. Dayton repeatedly said he would veto the K-12 funding bill because it doesn’t go far enough financially and because it doesn’t earmark funding for pre-kindergarten in public schools. Read more →
After a couple of years in France, Elanor Beardsley began to realize that there actually is such a thing as “too much vacation.” Read more →
State lawmakers have reached a compromise with Gov. Mark Dayton’s administration on legislation over wild rice protection. Read more →