Q&A with Minneapolis’ incoming health director
Damon Chaplin is only the city’s second commissioner in more than 20 years. He said he will be focused on the city’s opioid challenges and health concerns related to homelessness.
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Big changes coming to Minnesota’s recreational marijuana proposal to address worries from hemp edibles industry
It can’t come soon enough for businesses making and selling low-potency hemp-derived edibles and beverages boosted by last year’s legalization. Many in the industry are spooked by how the bills so far treat their businesses.
Minnesota has no law about disrupting public meetings. Will Minneapolis council protests change that?
A state Supreme Court ruling invalidated Minnesota’s law on disorderly conduct in public meetings. Some Minneapolis council members say it’s time for the state to fill the legal vacuum — but after recent protests, critics say the proposal’s timing is suspicious.
St. Paul public works, parks and water employees authorize strike
Plus: Questions raised over Minneapolis Black expo; Stillwater prison worker assaulted by inmate; $256 million solar energy project approved in Dodge County; and more.
D.C. Memo: Finstad campaign calls Omar ‘anti-America’ in fundraising appeal, Omar strikes back
Plus: Minnesota Dems split over D.C. criminal code and Biden unveils budget
Reports: ‘Real possibility’ Vikings wide receiver Adam Thielen leaves the team
Plus: A rule for safer bus stops; Hennepin County judge agrees to controversial plea deal; New Yorker acquires ‘In the Dark;’ a Hmong opera; longtime East St. Paul pizza joint to close; and more.
One year after Ukraine War, has Minnesota fully divested from Russia and Belarus?
Officials on Minnesota’s State Board of Investment now say the state’s holdings were worth far less than previously estimated. And while the SBI has sold off most of those assets, it’s had trouble fully divesting.
Lawmakers hope to target inequities in Minnesota cash bail system
The bill, authored by DFL Rep. Cedrick Frazier of New Hope, would limit the use of cash bail by the courts for misdemeanor offenses, allowing an offender to be released pre-trial without having to pay.
Hackers use stolen student data against Minneapolis schools in brazen new threat
A video posted online — and then removed — by ransomware gang claimed to highlight stolen files as criminals demand $1M after ‘encryption event.’
Man charged in downtown Minneapolis phone theft ring will spend years in prison
Plus: Documents show former Hennepin Sheriff Dave Hutchinson’s command staff feared for safety; governor signs executive order on gender-affirming care; Minneapolis City Council may ask legislators to take action after disruptions, threats; and more.
Minnesota Historical Society workers reach tentative first union contract deal with employer
Plus: Person of interest in Chisago County shooting dead, three victims identified; Wild snub Pride jerseys; the history of Lake Minnetonka; where to get late-night bites in the Twin Cities; and more.
DFL lawmakers want to end a state report on abortion data in Minnesota
The bill is meant to safeguard the privacy of patients, and Democrats contend the data collection is intrusive and unnecessary. But the proposal has also drawn the ire of both transparency advocates and Republican lawmakers.
Minneapolis’ public housing agency can’t build units by itself. Here’s who’s signed up to help
The mayor will chair a working group of the governmental and private entities that all must work together if the public housing authority is going to meet its goal to open 150 new units each year.
Should Met Council members have to run for election? Yes, say Republicans and now DFLers, too
The DFL leaders of the House and Senate transportation committees say a change in governance is needed to better serve the region.
Minnesota House passes measure to create nation’s first Office of Missing and Murdered African American Women
Black women in Minnesota are three times more likely to be murdered than White women, and their cases are less likely to be solved.
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Ellison launches Minnesota consumer protection probe into Kia, Hyundai theft vulnerabilities
Plus: Gov. Tim Walz signs driver’s license bill; Fairview’s chief executive endorses U proposal to takeover campus hospitals; St. Louis County judge dies while on vacation in Florida; and more.
Rural Minnesota cities like New Ulm face critical child care shortages
Plus: Documents reveal acrimony between U of M and Fairview in run-up to Fairview-Sanford merger announcement; winter storm watch encore; guv signs bill to allow undocumented immigrants driver’s licenses; 218 among most spam-associated area codes; and more.
Wolves seeming to jell, but with tough stretch coming, can they maintain their (recent) winning ways?
As of Tuesday morning, the Wolves improbably found themselves with the sixth-best record in the muddled Western Conference, a slot in the standings that would enable them to avoid the play-in mini-tournament.
Why a group of rural Republicans helped the DFL pass a bonding bill in the Minnesota House
Votes from House Republicans in favor of a bonding bill were notable in an era of political gridlock, but Senate Republicans still aren’t on board.
