WSU Library: Minnesota Govenrment Links

MINNESOTA GOVERNMENT LINKS

Laws and Regulations

Agencies

Legislative Home Page

Minn Electronic Documents

Judiciary

Minnesota Court Links (U. of Minn.)

Social Issues

Descriptions of the Links

Laws and Regulations in Minnesota

Legislative Home Page (Minnesota Legislative Reference Library)

This site gives access to a directory of the legislators of Minnesota, to the bills before the Minnesota Legislature, to the Statutes of Minnesota, and to the executive regulations of the state. See below for direct links.
http://www.leg.state.mn.us/

Minnesota Electronic Documents (Minnesota Legislative Reference Library)

This interface searches a subset of the library catalog at the Legislative Reference Library in St. Paul. The subset that it searches consists of Minnesota state documents that are in an online, electronic format. All state documents since 2004 have been made available electronically through this interface.
http://lrl.mnpals.net/F?func=file&file_name=basic&local_base=lrl_ed

Minnesota Statutes (Minnesota Legislative Reference Library)

The current laws of Minnesota codified by the revisor of statutes.
http://www.leg.state.mn.us/leg/statutes.htm

Minnesota Rules (Minnesota Legislative Reference Library)

The current regulations from the executive branch of Minnesota codified by the revisor of statutes. For the most recent year's changes, check in the State Register.
http://www.revisor.leg.state.mn.us/arule/

Attorney General Opinions

Opinions from the Minnesota Attorney General's Office. Searchable.
http://www.ag.state.mn.us/resources/resourcesattgenopinion.asp

Minnesota Court Links (University of Minnesota)

Links to web pages from Minnesota courts. They are collected by the Law Library at the University of Minnesota.
http://www.law.umn.edu/library/MN-web.html#MNJudiciary

Government Agencies in Minnesota

Minnesota State Offices (North Star)

A good directory to Minnesota Government Offices arranged by agency.
http://www.state.mn.us/govtoffice/index.html

State Agency Telephone Directory (North Star)

A directory of phone numbers to Minnesota Government Offices arranged by agency. This one is not as easy to use as the one above, because it has no hierarchical table of contents.
http://www.state.mn.us/dir/saindex.html

Minnesota Statistical Resources

Minnesota Planning

The homepage for the Minnesota Planning agency, which collects statistics on many aspects of Minnesota, especially demography.
http://www.mnplan.state.mn.us/

Atlas of Minnesota Online(Center for Rural Policy and Development)

In 2003, through a partnership with the University of Minnesota Extension Service and the Blandin Foundation, CRPD released the Atlas of Minnesota 2nd Edition. The new interactive online maps are based on the Atlas 2/e, but wherever possible CRPD has updated the data on which they are based.
http://www.mnsu.edu/ruralmn/pages/Publications/Atlas/Atlasonline/indexatlas/indexatlas.htm

Department of Employment and Economic Development

The Facts and Figures page for the state agency that tries to encourage business location and development in Minnesota. Lots of economic statistics on the state, including their reference book, Compare Minnesota, in PDF format.
http://www.deed.state.mn.us/FactsandFigures.htm

Minnesota Community Profiles (Department of Trade and Economic Development)

Called MNPro.com, this site is an interactive database containing community profiles with detailed economic and infrastructure data, and available industrial and commerical real estate by municipality.
http://www.mnpro.com/

Social Issues (Winona State University)

Our own page of links to Web sites useful for investigating crime, gambling, substance abuse and other social issues in Minnesota.
http://www.winona.edu/library/gov/mnsocial.html