What is the state of our state’s 87 counties? The word that most resonates with me when I contemplate this is “resolute.” Counties are resolute in our mission to serve. Minnesota’s ...

"Minnesota counties with names like Hennepin, Ramsey, Stearns, Todd, Sibley, Wright, Sherburne and Swift, for example, represent just a few of the 52 counties named after men between 1849 and 1923 ...

A Republican senator hopes to "make Minnesota Iowa again" after introducing a bill that would allow Iowa to buy nine southern Minnesota counties. Sen. Mike Bousselot, R-Ankeny, Iowa, proposed the ...

Michael Bousselot said he will propose a bill in the legislature to buy "the bottom nine counties of Minnesota" — that would be Rock, Nobles, Jackson, Martin, Faribault, Freeborn, Mower ...