Benson News

Dear Friends and Neighbors, The legislative session began with everyone saying that jobs and securing a more stable economy for Minnesota were the top priorities.

Sitting at the antique kitchen table in her equally old rural Murdock farm house, Marie Johnson listens intently to the Swedish church hymns coming from an under-the-kitchen-cabinet CD player.

By just two votes more than the minimum required, the U.S. Senate Wednesday passed S 1789, the bipartisan 21st Century Postal Act, 62 to 37.

New Yorkers may have won the Pulitzer Prizes in Music and Poetry, but Minnesota arts organizations were instrumental in putting their work on the stage and in print.