Current Issues
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Minnesota's Health Care Leads the Way for the Nation
What makes Minnesota's health care system a leading example for the nation? What do Minnesota employers do to keep insurance low? What about health care makes Minnesotan's feel valued and satisfied? The health care options in Minnesota make the state one of the healthiest, and leads the charge on quality and cost measurement. Read more...
Crosstown Project Underway
 | The much-anticipated I-35W/Hwy 62 Crosstown project is underway! New bridges, walls and frontage roads will be constructed, and concrete barriers and electronic message boards will be placed along the shoulders of I-35W and Hwy 62.
You can find additional project information here (including a link to a weekly project update), or you can call the Crosstown project hotline at 651.234.7501.
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| Northwest Metro Transit Restructuring A plan to improve transit in the northwest metro The Northwest Metro Transit Restructuring Plan is underway – a project to improve service in the area west of the Mississippi River and north of Highway 55. Cities in the study area include Brooklyn Center, Brooklyn Park, Champlin, Crystal, Golden Valley, Maple Grove, New Hope, north Minneapolis, Osseo, Plymouth and Robbinsdale. Click on the image to the right to read more.
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Coalition of Minnesota Businesses Encourages Legislature to Squeeze the Surplus
Squeeze every penny out of the surplus. Not the taxpayer.
A $2 billion surplus is serious icing on the cake. That’s Minnesota’s estimated state budget surplus over the next 30 months. With more than $35 billion available to spend in the next two years, we can go a long way toward addressing the state’s most pressing concerns in areas such as education, transportation and health care. | 
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The key is to spend smart. This healthy surplus is not a license to simply throw more money at problems or continue to pay for things that don’t work. This is an opportunity for Minnesota lawmakers to make major advances — by investing more only where more is needed, and by spending our money like it’s their own. When a family gets a raise, it usually spends part and saves part. The state should do the same. Too much spending can lead to budget deficits — and tax increases. That would squeeze the life out of the very economy that produced the surplus. And it could eventually squeeze jobs right out of the state.
Minnesota’s economy is on a roll and has a growing surplus to prove it. The Legislature should squeeze as much as it can out of this windfall. And hug the taxpayers for making it happen.
Spend smart and keep a lid on taxes.
Read more from the Coalition of Minnesota Businesses...
TwinWest Memos and Updates from the 2007 Legislative Session:
May 16-- Memo: Statewide Health Insurance Pool for School District Employees
May 14--Memo: Conference Committee Report on Transportation Finance Bill
May 3-- Memo: Grassroots Action Needed to Oppose Spending Increases
April 26-- Memo: Grassroots Action Needed on Senate File 1061
March 29-- Memo: Grassroots Action Needed to Oppose Senate Tax Bill
March 22-- Legislative Update: Senate Transportation Ominus Bill
March 22-- Memo: Senate File 81 Defeated Thanks to Grassroots Efforts
March 12-- Memo: Grassroots Action Needed on Senate File 81
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