Podcasts are now available of the new Minnesota Senate Radio Show.  Our very own Senator Miller was a guest this past week, and can be heard or downloaded on this link.  The show can also be heard on 1230 KWNO on Friday afternoons.  It’s packed with great info, without the media filter. Enjoy.

March 23, 2011 Greetings from the Capitol! We’ll be putting in long hours this week as we finalize our budget bills by a self-imposed deadline of this Friday. A month ago we established targets for overall spending in each major area–such as education, transportation, agriculture, public safety–but now we have to put the meat on [...]

State economists shared an updated budget forecast with lawmakers this week, and the initial numbers are positive. Minnesota has collected $984 million more than expected over the past few months, meaning our previous projection of the state budget deficit of $6.2 billion has now fallen to $5.1 billion. Why the change? The analysts tell us [...]