Tag Archives: state budget

“It’s a sad day for Minnesota”

The budget forecast delivered by state finance officials on Wednesday is perhaps the bleakest outlook in Minnesota’s history. “This is the worst, without a question,” said Jay Kiedrowski, a senior fellow at the University of Minnesota’s Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs. As the state’s chief financial officer under Gov. Rudy Perpich in the 1980s, Kiedrowski [...]

GOP candidates for governor talk about fiscal crisis

A panel of Republican candidates for governor on Wednesday painted a dire portrait of a state in fiscal crisis. Speaking at a private forum for Medtronic employees, the five GOP contenders described a state budget broken from unsustainable spending. And they spoke about an alarming migration trend they see in which businesses are fleeing the [...]