Eagan Readies State Government's Reopening

Insults were hurled. Accusations were made. Pleas were ignored. But in the end, the people’s business was finished.

Gov. Mark Dayton just signed into law all 12 budget bills passed in the middle of the night Wednesday by the Minnesota House and Senate. Dayton’s signatures ended the shutdown of Minnesota government—at 20 days, it was the longest continuous shutdown of any state government in recent United States history.

In the end, the budget went the way most people expected it to go after Dayton, on July 14, accepted the Republican budget proposal, without the policy provisions first attached to the budget when it was first presented on June 30.  

Read full coverage of the state government shutdown here:

July 20: Eagan Responds to Budget Bills as Shutdown Ends

July 20: State Government Shutdown Ends

July 20: Special Session Concludes

July 19: State to Minnesotans: "Be Ready"

July 19: Dayton Calls Special Session

July 18: Deal May Be Confirmed Tuesday

July 18: Leader Among Republicans Says 'We Are Ready to Go'

July 18: Restaurants, Bars May Be Unable to Sell Liquor

July 17: Negotiations Remain Locked

July 15: Dayton to Call Special Session; Lewis House in Hastings to Reopen

July 14: DONE DEAL: Local Legislators React

July 14: Dayton May Call Special Session, Agrees to June 30 Proposal

July 13: Personal Struggles, Frustrations for State Workers Without Jobs

July 12: Dayton Talks Shutdown

July 11: Dayton to Tour Minnesota, Explain Shutdown

July 9: Judge Makes Three New Rulings

July 7:

July 7: Committee Produces 'Alternative' Proposal

July 6: Budget Talks Take a Step 'Backwards,' Republicans Say

July 5: Impact of Shutdown: Public Safety

July 5: New Solution in Budget Impasse

July 5: A Working Weekend for Eagan Legislators, Politicians

July 5:

July 2:

July 1: Local Legislators Disappointed by Shutdown

July 1: How the Shutdown Happened

July 1: Eagan Services Curtailed in Shutdown

July 1: District 196 Will Receive Aid, Squares Away Teacher Licensing Before Shutdown

July 1: Eagan Businesses to Feel Impact of Shutdown

July 1:

July 1:

June 30: Public Transit in Eagan Will Continue

June 26:

June 16:

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