The Minnesota House passed a bill Monday establishing the state's health insurance exchange, the first step toward enactment of an online marketplace that aims to give more than a million Minnesotans a new place to purchase affordable health insurance.
With a government shutdown looming, one Minnesota state worker who expected his layoff notice Friday said he thinks he can last about a month without a paycheck but that he will be worried if the budget stalemate at the Capitol stretches longer than that.