Newsletter-Late-Week

Popular author draws a crowd

“I want to tell you some stories,” Minnesota author William Kent Krueger said, standing at the front of a packed room at the Sleepy Event Center on Wednesday evening, April 23. “I think of myself primarily as a storyteller. We think of stories as entertaining us, but they also enlighten us and inspire us.”

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Rep. Torkelson: Minnesota House Making Good Progress Towards Budget

ST. PAUL – April 11 marked the deadline when most spending bills needed to be approved in a Minnesota legislative committee. State Representative Paul Torkelson (R-Hanska), who chairs the powerful House Ways and Means Committee, said the Minnesota House is on track to have finance bills approved once the legislature returns from the Easter/Passover break.

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