Michelle Griffith
Reporter at Minnesota Reformer
Reporter @MNReformer ~ Previously: @inforum, @Report4America ~ [email protected]
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1 week ago |
minnesotareformer.com | Michelle Griffith |Minnesota Reformer
A bill to fund critical public works projects — including upgrading the state’s roads, protecting Minnesota’s drinking water and expanding city sewers — is dead this year, legislative leaders said Thursday. The Minnesota Legislature in even years typically passes an infrastructure package — known as a “bonding bill” around the Capitol because it’s funded with borrowed money — that costs hundreds of millions and sometimes billions of dollars.
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1 week ago |
minnesotareformer.com | Michelle Griffith
Minnesota lawmakers are considering giving some of the country’s most profitable tech companies tax breaks on their data centers up to the year 2102 — when most of the legislators and lobbyists furiously negotiating the deal will be dead. Minnesota currently has 42 data centers, with the majority spread across the metro. Nationwide, tech companies are rapidly building data centers — large warehouses with computer servers used to power the internet — to store and process data.
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1 week ago |
yahoo.com | Michelle Griffith
Minnesota Technology Center houses multiple data centers, including a Cologix and a Vaultas data center, in this facility next to U.S. Bank Stadium in Minneapolis Friday, May 23, 2025. (Photo by Nicole Neri/Minnesota Reformer)Minnesota lawmakers are considering giving some of the country’s most profitable tech companies tax breaks on their data centers up to the year 2102 — when most of the legislators and lobbyists furiously negotiating the deal will be dead.
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2 weeks ago |
minnesotareformer.com | Michelle Griffith
Minnesota lawmakers continued meeting mostly behind closed doors Wednesday to come to an agreement on the biggest budget bills to fund state government, including education and health and human services. Lawmakers have a self-imposed deadline of 5 p.m. Wednesday to finish their work, which they will likely blow through. They are trying to come to an agreement on over a dozen budget and policy bills after the narrowly divided Legislature adjourned Monday. Gov.
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2 weeks ago |
minnesotareformer.com | Michelle Griffith
A narrowly divided Legislature adjourned Monday without completing a state budget for the next two years, ending the session just as it began: with rancorous finger pointing. The session started with the Minnesota Supreme Court settling a dispute between Republicans and Democrats over control of the House, and now lawmakers are leaving with the biggest budget bills still outstanding, including health and human services, education and taxes.
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RT @RyanFaircloth: New: Minnesota legislators are negotiating biggest pieces of $66 billion budget in private. Legislators kicked Strib rep…
A narrowly divided Legislature adjourned Monday without completing a state budget for the next two years, ending the session just as it began: with rancorous finger pointing. https://t.co/IuV7XY8Feg
RT @maxnesterak: Lawmakers play blame game as session comes to end without major budget bills https://t.co/AotXhgIKPc