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Minnesota legislators used to catching heat from constituents for rising property taxes that are largely out of their control think they've settled on a way to ease the blowback.

Oslo, a recycling-friendly place where roughly half the city and most of its schools are heated by burning garbage - household trash, industrial waste, even toxic and dangerous waste from hospitals and drug arrests - has a problem: it has literally run out of garbage to burn.

More Minnesotans would pay a new, higher income tax rate under a bill DFL senators are proposing.

Bakken crude on the spot market widened its discount to the European benchmark crude for the first time in a week.