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Archive Home > 2011 > July > 15 > Minnesota leaders strike a deal to end shutdown

Minnesota leaders strike a deal to end shutdown

By Baird Helgeson, Mike Kaszuba and Rachel E. Stassen-Berger / The Bulletin
July 15, 2011

MINNEAPOLIS — After weeks of crippling political deadlock, Minnesota Gov. Mark Dayton and Republican legislative leaders emerged in the darkened Capitol Thursday to announce they had brokered a budget deal to end the longest state government shutdown in U.S. history.

The deal raises the revenue....

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