MPR’s Michelle Wiley writes that for the first time, the Minnesota Department of Corrections will allow a transgender inmate to transfer to the women’s prison in alignment with her gender identity.
Thursday a new law went into effect that will allow 55,000 Minnesotans who were formerly incarcerated to register to vote, The Star Tribune reports.
Bring Me The News writes that the Minnesota Department of Transportation continues to clean up and investigate a train derailment near Lancaster, Minnesota on Wednesday.
If you use public transit in Rochester you should be prepared for a possible bus driver strike, the Post Bulletin says. This comes as the drivers and Transdev work to renegotiate a new contract.
The Duluth News Tribune writes that state regulators are working to keep “potential mining activity to be farther away from the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness than currently allowed, leaving more restrictive regulations up to the Minnesota Legislature to decide.”
Also from the Star Tribune, UnitedHealth Group remains in the number one spot of the top 50 public Minnesota companies.
KVRR’s Jim Monk writes that the man accused of stealing the famous ruby slippers from the Judy Garland Museum in Grand Rapids pleaded not guilty in a federal court Thursday.
Thursday a man pleaded guilty to assaulting Representative Angie Craig earlier this year, KSTP reports.
The Trader Joe’s in downtown Minneapolis is being accused of violating worker’s rights for removing union literature from the break room, the Star Tribune’s Nicole Norfleet reports.
55,000 more votes for the DFL.
Strange. When I think “criminality,” I think “GOP.” Look at your leadership.
I haven’t seen any surveys, but anecdotally, the recently incarcerated tend towards the right end of the political spectrum.
I can only hope! Happy that my fellow citizens will have a say in how their government works again.
Does everything need to be viewed through the lens of creating a political advantage? Maybe, just maybe, giving someone who was formerly incarcerated the franchise again is the right thing to do after they “pay their debt to society.” Maybe it will help them feel they have a say. Which is probably a good thing.
On the bus strike in Rochester, How many drivers and passengers are possibly affected? The same union is representing MetroTransit in the metro area union members for a possible strike this year.