The DFL is proposing yet another tax hike. HF 3566 would, MPR News reports: …update Minnesota’s current electronics waste law, which was passed back in 2007 — the year the first iPhone was released — and focuses mainly on televisions and computers. The bill...
Will she vote remotely from jail? KVRR and other news outlets are reporting that Sen. Nicole Mitchell (DFL-Woodbury) has been arrested in Detroit Lakes, Minnesota. Detroit Lakes is the county seat of Becker County and sits some 217 miles from her Woodbury home....
There used to be a longstanding tradition of election policy bills requiring bipartisan support in order to pass. Because election law by definition is so fraught with partisan politics, it was generally understood by governors from Arne Carlson to Mark Dayton...
A bill making its way through the Minnesota legislature would require setting exam scores to ensure that 95 percent of education paraprofessionals working on their statewide credential pass the assessments the first time they take them. Paraprofessionals (also...
Mahad Ibrahim will be tried separately, due to the unavoidable unavailability of his attorney. The Federal judge in the Feeding Our Future case issued an order yesterday, excusing the defendant in the trial beginning Monday morning in Federal Court in...
Regulation MPR News: ‘Look what you made me do’: Minnesota lawmakers pass proposals to crack down on ticket, junk fees Minnesota Reformer: Legislature votes to eliminate carve-outs to state minimum wage — and other labor news Minnesota Reformer: Arming workers...
Buckle Up! The first trial in the Feeding Our Future fraud scandal is set to begin Monday, April 22, 2024 and Bill Glahn and John Hinderaker broke down all the details in this lunchtime webinar aired on Friday, April 19, 2024. While 18 other defendants have...
The question of what to do about school resource officers burned up countless hours of discussion by the Rochester Public Schools Board prior to this academic year. A last ditch effort by some board members to eliminate officers in the hallways at this time...
The ideological divide between the two main parties in the state legislature is increasingly stark. The Republicans — often only broadly and then often in the breach more than the observance — favor free market capitalism. The DFL — increasingly and with fewer...
DFL legislators are taking on corporate landlords in a bill moving through the legislature. HF 685, and its Senate companion SF 365, were introduced last year but went nowhere. The proposal is back this session. If passed, it would cap the number of...