St. Paul Olympian Suni Lee is planning to make her return to gymnastics at the 2024 Olympic Trials, WCCO Radio says.
And speaking of the Olympic Trials, Kare11 reports that Minneapolis will host the U.S. Gymnastics Olympic Trials making Lee’s return to competition a homecoming.
Stribber Jeremy Olson writes that a Glencoe, Minn. woman will be cut off from her doctors after she gives birth because she fell behind on unpaid medical debt.
Minnesota is going all in on a child tax credit in an effort to cut child poverty by one-third. MPR’s Brian Bakst explores how the plan will play out.
Minneapolis’ Healthy Homes is in the process of doing outreach to homes with lead exposure. Sahan Journal reports that low-income communities and communities of color are more likely to be impacted.
Minnesota continues to grab national headlines with a piece from Intelligencer looking at the productive legislative session for Minnesota Democrats with help from MinnPost’s legislative coverage.
A recently filed lawsuit alleges that Pizza Luce is not paying delivery drivers a minimum wage, Fox9 reports.
With the announcement of development at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Post Bulletin writes that there could be a slight change to the rapid-transit system to accommodate potential increases in ridership.
Calling the $1750 per-child stipend a “tax credit” is dishonest because people in poverty don’t pay any income taxes that they have to apply a credit towards. Call it what it is: a $1750 per-child annual subsidy from state government to go along with their free school lunches because your children are now wards of the state.
“Call it what it is…an annual subsidy…”
The horror …the horror!
We don’t have journalists anymore, we have narrative enforcers.
I’m okay with the narrative, as long as kids are being fed and their parents are getting a modest break.
This redistribution of wealth is much better than the version that funnels money to the ultra-wealthy at the expense of the middle class.