Plus: Biden plans visit to Rosemount Tuesday; 30% of fully vaccinated Minnesota adults have booster shots; long-haul COVID study at Mayo finds more women affected than men; and more.
Life in the resistance camps is difficult, but activists say important work remains.
Special sessions require the sort of negotiation and concessions that have been hard to come by for decades in Minnesota.
Plus: omicron coronavirus variant detected in Canada; Twins’ Byron Buxton agrees to $100 million contract extension; Superior National Forest has a full-time tribal liaison; and more.
Plus: Dalton, Minnesota farm couple taking in Afghan refugees; corporations fail to uphold promises to invest in Black-owned media; Minnesota’s official Thanksgiving turkey presented; and more.
Enjoying the novelty of a team on the rise.
The agency is planning to build 84 units at 16 separate sites spread across the city starting next year.
Zelle, a former state Minnesota Department of Transportation commissioner, was appointed Met Council chair just before the COVID-19 pandemic hit.
Plus: five juveniles arrested after fleeing police and stopping traffic on I-694; Frattallone’s hardware stores sold to Tennessee company; puppy stolen at gunpoint in Minneapolis; and more.
Walz also downplayed the possibility for a special session, even after Senate Majority Leader Jeremy Miller said Republicans may back down from a threat to fire Health Commissioner Jan Malcolm.
Plus: Fairview sees $58 million quarterly loss due to COVID-19; Burnsville-Eagan-Savage Schools move to distance learning amid increasing case counts; Minneapolis police warn of increase in aggravated robberies in south part of city; and more.
Minnesota let many of its COVID-19 mitigation measures lapse over the summer. Is it time to bring them back?
In Roseau, in northwestern Minnesota, the problem is so acute that the city has taken drastic measures, building a $6.8 million apartment complex that is funded almost entirely with public money.
The yet-to-be-named club, which will compete in the fledgling USL W League, offers a community-ownership model that means exactly that — regular people owning shares of the club. Investors can jump in at six levels from $100 to $10,000.
Plus: no evidence driver who plowed into Christmas parade in Wisconsin knew anyone in crowd; state Board of Pardons considers commutation for 35-year-old Burnsville woman; Benton County sheriff warns residents against firing warning shots; and more.
Plus: deep dive on the labor shortage in health care; Robert Bly has died; the naming of St. Paul’s Hillcrest redevelopment; and more.
The state House Finance Agency, tenant rights activists and Mid Minnesota Legal Aid address the most-frequently asked questions they get from both and renters and landlords about the state’s rental assistance program.
The research team noted a connection between the part of the brain responsible for addiction and appetite regulation as a possible cause for smokers’ cravings for energy-dense, high-calorie foods during nicotine withdrawal.
Plus: at least 5 dead after SUV plows into crowd at Wisconsin holiday parade; parishioners protest what they say is erasure of culture from Minnesota’s first Mexican parish; Loons eliminated from MLS playoffs; and more.
Plus: COVID surge causing serious delays for patients with non-COVID health issues; Lake Harriet band shell repairs are on the way; St. Paul City Council members say Carter’s property-tax-assistance proposal ‘not ready for prime-time’; and more.
