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Minnesota has plan to sell school trusts lands in BWCAW to federal government
A new proposal would allow the federal government to buy more than 80,000 acres of Minnesota state-owned land in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness, moving away from land-exchange discussions that have played out without resolution for at least a decade or more. The acreage is school trust land across the BWCAW managed by the …
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Locals spent $13.3 million lobbying the MN Legislature last year • Minnesota Reformer
Local governments spent $13.3 million lobbying the Minnesota Legislature in 2023 — a 20% increase from the previous year, according to an analysis released Wednesday by the Office of the State Auditor Julie Blaha. That’s the largest increase since 2005, according to the auditor. The report says the increase in 2023 lobbying dollars is attributable …