Minnesota governor OKs new budget, ends state shutdown

Thursday, July 21, 2011

ST. PAUL, Minn. -- Minnesota Gov. Mark Dayton signed a new budget Wednesday, ending the nation's longest state government shutdown in the past decade.

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