Successful communities shouldn’t be defined by keeping people out, but by welcoming newcomers and incorporating them into civic life.

Prison telecom is a billion-dollar industry dominated by just a few private-equity-backed corporations that make hundreds of millions each year exploiting family ties.

College is not always the best career pathway. Apprenticeships, for example, are debt-free career training institutions that have been attaching workers to middle class careers in the construction industry for generations.

Wealth taxes like the one proposed by President Biden have already proven not to work in countries that tried it.

Ultimately, Trump is all about Trump and his personal interests. His electoral record shows he has not built broader success for his party.

If we want to support vibrant, diverse communities we need a robust transit system that ensures our communities are open to everyone, regardless of whether they have the means or the inclination to drive.

Blanketly calling what the world eats “ultra-processed” leads to an unjustified fear of food processing and results in rejecting some healthy, processed foods while missing out on the main culprit.

We stand by our community partners and their calls for bold public investments in the emergency shelter system this legislative session.

Minnesota’s climate policy should not be outsourced to out-of-state special interests or the courts.

Yesterday’s solutions don’t fix tomorrow’s challenges.

I encourage the House to pass a strong PDAB bill without amendments, so that we have a new tool to save Minnesotans’ money and lives and protect all Minnesotans from Big Pharma’s abuses.

State lawmakers must act now to stop rent gouging in affordable housing

Earned sick and safe time is a basic protection that keeps workers and their families healthy, safe and secure.

This intentional harm to bees by the city goes against their stated promises in the 2015 “pollinator friendly community” resolution that claims to support pollinator health and local food solutions.

It’s time to call upon all of our faith communities to publicly post their standards of ethics and abuse prevention policies and conduct mandatory abuse prevention training every three years.

Some people consider a side-view image of the AR-15 rifle, an extremely effective mass killing-machine, to be a symbol of protection. I consider such images to be icons of a widespread public insecurity and of a newly-found fear.

The only way we can preserve our quality of life is with constant oversight from an independent media that truly insists on the public being served with competent management, full transparency and accountability.

HF 580 proposes an unprecedented tax of  $.75 on every delivery made to the residents of Minnesota.

As a state representative and former state senator, respectively, we have seen firsthand how ranked choice voting can improve our democracy and benefit communities of color.

We, as a society, can’t just dabble on the edges of reform when our basic assumptions continue to perpetuate health disparities. We must do more.