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Race & Health Equity

Q&A with Minneapolis’ incoming health director 

By Ava Kian | Staff Writer
March 10, 2023

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.

Damon Chaplin
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Politics & Policy

Big changes coming to Minnesota’s recreational marijuana proposal to address worries from hemp edibles industry

By Peter Callaghan | Staff Writer
March 10, 2023

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.

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Politics & Policy

Minnesota has no law about disrupting public meetings. Will Minneapolis council protests change that?

By Kyle Stokes | Staff Writer
March 10, 2023

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.

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The Glean

St. Paul public works, parks and water employees authorize strike

By Brian Lambert | Contributing Writer
March 10, 2023

Plus: Questions raised over Minneapolis Black expo; Stillwater prison worker assaulted by inmate; $256 million solar energy project approved in Dodge County; and more.

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D.C. Memo

D.C. Memo: Finstad campaign calls Omar ‘anti-America’ in fundraising appeal, Omar strikes back

By Ana Radelat | Staff Writer
March 9, 2023

Plus: Minnesota Dems split over D.C. criminal code and Biden unveils budget

Details from a fundraising email sent by Finstad for Congress.
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The Glean

Reports: ‘Real possibility’ Vikings wide receiver Adam Thielen leaves the team

By Greta Kaul | Associate Editor
March 9, 2023

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.

Minnesota Vikings wide receiver Adam Thielen
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State Government

One year after Ukraine War, has Minnesota fully divested from Russia and Belarus?

By Walker Orenstein | Staff Writer
March 9, 2023

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.

A Ukrainian serviceman hiding in a trench near the frontline town of Bakhmut
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Public Safety

Lawmakers hope to target inequities in Minnesota cash bail system

By Mohamed Ibrahim | Staff Writer
March 9, 2023

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.

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From Other Nonprofit Media

Hackers use stolen student data against Minneapolis schools in brazen new threat

By Mark Keierleber, The 74
March 9, 2023

A video posted online — and then removed — by ransomware gang claimed to highlight stolen files as criminals demand $1M after ‘encryption event.’

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The Glean

Man charged in downtown Minneapolis phone theft ring will spend years in prison

By Brian Lambert | Contributing Writer
March 9, 2023

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.

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The Glean

Minnesota Historical Society workers reach tentative first union contract deal with employer

By Greta Kaul | Associate Editor
March 8, 2023

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.

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State Government

DFL lawmakers want to end a state report on abortion data in Minnesota

By Walker Orenstein | Staff Writer
March 8, 2023

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.

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Politics & Policy

Minneapolis’ public housing agency can’t build units by itself. Here’s who’s signed up to help

By Kyle Stokes | Staff Writer
March 8, 2023

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.

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State Government

Should Met Council members have to run for election? Yes, say Republicans and now DFLers, too

By Peter Callaghan | Staff Writer
March 8, 2023

The DFL leaders of the House and Senate transportation committees say a change in governance is needed to better serve the region.

Met Council Chair Charlie Zelle
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From Other Nonprofit Media

Minnesota House passes measure to create nation’s first Office of Missing and Murdered African American Women

By Daja E. Henry, The 19th
March 8, 2023

Black women in Minnesota are three times more likely to be murdered than White women, and their cases are less likely to be solved.

Rep. Ruth Richardson
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Inside MinnPost

MinnPost reporters are your eyes and ears at the Capitol

By Tanner Curl | Executive Director
March 8, 2023

Our reporters are not only holding power to account, but also serving as your guide to the challenges and opportunities facing Minnesota.

Gov. Tim Walz and reporter Peter Callaghan
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The Glean

Ellison launches Minnesota consumer protection probe into Kia, Hyundai theft vulnerabilities

By Brian Lambert | Contributing Writer
March 8, 2023

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.

Attorney General Keith Ellison
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The Glean

Rural Minnesota cities like New Ulm face critical child care shortages

By Greta Kaul | Associate Editor
March 7, 2023

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.

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Sports

Wolves seeming to jell, but with tough stretch coming, can they maintain their (recent) winning ways?

By Britt Robson
March 7, 2023

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.

Forward Kyle Anderson celebrating with guard Anthony Edwards
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Greater Minnesota

Why a group of rural Republicans helped the DFL pass a bonding bill in the Minnesota House

By Walker Orenstein | Staff Writer
March 7, 2023

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.

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