Rep. John Ward, DFL-Baxter, has been elected assistant majority leader in the new DFL majority. He also will serve as vice chair of the Capital Investment Committee. The retired teacher was one of seven assistant majority leaders elected last weekend.

The Rosenmeier Center for State and Local Government at Central Lakes College will host a forum on legislative redistricting and reapportionment from 7 to 9 p.m., Wednesday, in the Chalberg Theatre at CLC.

...Policy Committee, and a member of the Capital Investment, Environment and Natural Resources Policy and Rules and Legislative Administration committees. Howes' district includes parts of Hubbard, Cass, Itasca and Crow Wing counties. Howes...

...information is still sitting in committee. The narrower House bills have been languishing in the House Rules and Legislative Administration Committee, frustrating some DFL members. ''The House has done nothing but talk ... but has not passed...

...Finance Committee, which defeated the plan on a tie vote. Sviggum, R-Kenyon, sent his new bill to the Rules and Legislative Administration committee, but the House voted 77-55 to redirect it to the committee that first required the voter's...

...Policy Committee, and a member of the Capital Investment, Environment and Natural Resources Policy and Rules and Legislative Administration committees. Howes' district includes parts of Hubbard, Cass, Itasca and Crow Wing counties. Howes...

...the Senate approved raising senators' per diem amounts from $66 to $96 daily. Similarly, the House Rules and Legislative Administration Committee raised the rate from $66 to $77 a day. Every day the Legislature is in session, lawmakers...

ST. PAUL - The Minnesota House Rules and Legislative Administration Committee on Wednesday altered the way House members are paid for housing but Rep. Larry Howes said he's not certain it will...