Look for a massive reshuffling of the Minnesota Legislature ... The redrawn maps continue a decades-long trend of shifting political power to the 11-county Twin Cities metro area, which ...

School boards, city councils and county commissioners are putting the ... like school levies and other local proposals. Each year, Minnesota’s state and local governments collect more than ...

In exchange for a cut of statewide sales tax revenues — and relief from soaring property tax bills — Minnesota cities and counties would face new limits on their ability to enact sales taxes ...

said Kathryn Draeger, statewide director of the University of Minnesota-based ... to give the five counties, 55 cities and 150 townships in the region a road map to a future they dictate.