Health and Human Services is the not just the fastest growing area of the state budget, it’s also the most bloated. The budget we passed this year keeps our commitment to vulnerable Minnesotans while taking a more emphatic approach to finding savings and eliminating fraud and abuse.
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Thirty years ago, a dedicated group of volunteers started organizing to create Habitat for Humanity of South Central Minnesota. These individuals were inspired to put their hearts and hands into working together to create affordable housing. And, they did that in no short order. Less than a …
Last winter, a woman with a pained look on her face told me that her car seat warmer had stopped working.
By now you have probably heard that my slowpoke bill, which requires slow drivers to move out of the left lane if they are holding up traffic, officially became effective on Aug. 1. Or perhaps you been reading up on changes to Minnesota’s distracted driving laws, which prohibit drivers from …
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Congratulations to the Waseca boys basketball team on their silver medal win March 23!
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Let’s be careful out there, especially this weekend.
Alison Mackie, Brent Lehnen, Brendan Kroehler.
A Waseca resident’s suggestion that the City Council reduce property assessments for those seriously impacted by September’s floods and sewer backups is understandable.
There are certain benefits to working in the public sector: job stability and good benefits among them.
In late 2015, Le Sueur County Administrator Darrell Pettis spent hours developing his year-end budget presentation, the pages of charts designed to help unfamiliar readers understand where the millions of dollars included in the 2016 plan would come from and where they would go.
