If you want to keep an eye on certain issues as they move through the legislative session there are some great tools out there. The Center of the American Experiment has developed a very easy to use website that provides readable brief descriptions of every bill, floor amendment, and roll call vote in the
Introduced to the Minnesota legislature, Senate and House. You can search by bill, legislator, or issue, and includes graphic display of vote tallies on some bills. The website, 
MINNESOTAVOTES.ORG should prove to be a useful tool to anyone wanting a quick look at what is happening. Questions can be addressed to the Director of MinnesotaVotes.org, Chris Tiedeman, at chris.tiedeman@amexp.org.
If you’re interested in the environment ME3’s Legislative Watch is the best energy related website around.
Here are two other sites by Joan Spiczka, a former township supervisor from Foley, MN. She includes her commentary and admits at times her partisan view comes through.
Legislative watchdog.
I like this quote from Lincoln she displays on her site:
The legitimate object of government is to do for a community of people, whatever they need to have done, but cannot do at all or cannot do so well, for themselves in their separate and individual capacities. — Abraham Lincoln
Joan’s non-partisan site: Joan on Government.
Labor interests may want to check IAMA site. 
Here are a couple with a federal scope:
FAIRNESS & ACCURACY IN REPORTING (FAIR):
If you have some sites you look turn to keep an eye on government, let me know what they are, and I’ll add them to my list. We have to know what they’re doing to hold them accountable.