Lawmakers will have to take up the $450 million spending measure in a special session. The House debated it up until the midnight deadline for adjournment without taking a vote.
This could be a critical week for Minnesota
farmers, who are running late with spring planting due to soggy
fields, but have a chance to catch up thanks to good weather
forecast for the next few days.
The members hope to get ticketed by state DNR enforcement officers to raise treaty rights issues in the courts. Red Lake tribal officials say they're not part of the effort and don't support it.
The upper third of the scenic lake in the Mississippi could be filled in over the next 100 years. An MPCA draft report cites farm runoff as a major cause, but state officials have little leverage to compel changes that could save the lake.
Minnesota is approaching another walleye fishing opener this weekend, but there is still no resolution to a treaty rights dispute between the state and two Ojibwe bands in northern Minnesota.
If Twin Cities church leaders vote to remove a requirement that ministers and lay leaders be faithfully married heterosexuals or celibate singles, it would be the final vote needed to ratify the change nationally.