Wheaton News

The Traverse County Sheriff's Department says it happened on Mud Lake near Wheaton.

No question, the financial picture is shifting in Minnesota. Cities weathering cuts to state aid, a down economy and declining property values have come to rely increasingly on property taxes to fund their budgets.

This past summer, when the city of Wheaton wanted to repave two half-block stretches of street near Broadway Avenue, they were surprised to find that the private company they'd normally hire had sent its paving or "milling" machines to the oil fields in western North Dakota.

Al Franken from Minnesota predicts that the bill to use federal money to build bridges, highways and railways will soon become law.