From the WASHINGTON POST:
Minnesota’s two-week-old government shutdown moved toward resolution Thursday, as Gov. Mark Dayton (D) and Republican legislative leaders agreed to a deal for closing the state’s $5 billion budget gap without a tax increase.
Speaking to reporters outside his office after emerging from a nearly three-hour meeting with GOP legislative leaders, Dayton said that the government shutdown would end as soon as lawmakers flesh out details of the agreement and move them through a special session of the Legislature. Officials said that should happen “within days.”
The agreement to end the shutdown came after Dayton reluctantly acceded to Republican demands not to raise any taxes to balance the state’s two-year budget and to embrace a deal the GOP had proposed just before the shutdown…
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