The Minnesota legislature is back in session Tuesday, starting off a six-week sprint to the scheduled May 17 adjournment.
The biggest issue is agreement on a two-year budget, a task made a tad bit easier with the state's one-point-six billion$1.6 billion-dollar surplus.
Governor Walz and the Democratic-controlled House want to tax the wealthy and large corporations to fund education projects, while the Republican-controlled Senate is calling for spending cuts.
Tax relief for pandemic aid is important to lawmakers on both sides of the aisle, but how to get there is still being debated.





