Minnesota's frontline workers can apply for 'Hero Pay' Wednesday
Frontline workers are now able to cash in on their hard work. Applications for pandemic bonus pay opened Wednesday morning, but not without hiccups.
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Frontline workers are now able to cash in on their hard work. Applications for pandemic bonus pay opened Wednesday morning, but not without hiccups.
Minnesotans are grappling with record high prices at the gas pump. This week, prices average $4.59 a gallon, up more than 30 cents from last week's average. It's below the national average of $4.87, but one station in Crystal is circling the $5 mark, at $4.94.
The threat of shootings in schools is reportedly affecting the mental health of parents and students. Moms Demand Action Minnesota says the tragedy in Uvalde has sparked increased interest in people getting involved in activism for gun reform.
The Center of the American Experiment said that they had scheduled a luncheon on public safety at the club on March 15 but the Rochester Golf and Country Club abruptly canceled it, leaving almost 50 attendees standing in the parking lot.
Ramsey County Judge Leonardo Castro found that the city improperly imposed the mandate without negotiating with the employee unions.
The proclamation was signed by the governor, noting that "every day, more than 100 people in the United States are killed by gun violence," and that "people in the United States are 25 times more likely to die by gun homicide than people in other high-income countries."
Republican Matt Benda dropped out of the congressional race in southern Minnesota's 1st District on Thursday, just two days after he filed paperwork to challenge the party's endorsed candidate for the open seat formerly held by the late U.S. Rep. Jim Hagedorn.
The Minnesota Legislature in the final weeks of session approved $25 million in bonus pay for veterans who served following the 9/11 terror attacks.
Wisconsin Democratic Gov. Tony Evers said Wednesday at a ceremony kicking off Pride Month that if he loses reelection in November, Republicans will take the "breathtaking" step to ban books, particularly those related to the LGBTQ community.
Minnesota could risk losing out on millions in federal funding provided by the $1.2 trillion infrastructure law Congress passed last year if the state legislature doesn't act soon on the transportation budget, the Minnesota Department of Transportation warns.
Republican gubernatorial candidate Scott Jensen has escaped any serious challenge from within GOP ranks, but other party-backed candidates for attorney general and the southern Minnesota congressional seat left vacant by the death of U.S. Rep. Jim Hagedorn will have hurdles to clear in the state's Aug. 9 primary.
"I will continue to promote and build support for the bold, new ideas on which my campaign was built and to create the political vehicle that can transform proposals to policy," Hepola said.
"It seems to me it's the height of irony, if not in fact the heart of hubris, that in a scathing report about the lack of transparency on the Minneapolis Police Department, that the [MDHR] itself is committing that same lack of transparency," said Steven Belton.
Democratic Gov. Tony Evers said Friday he can't think of anyone worse to fill a vacancy on Wisconsin's bipartisan elections commission than a Republican-hired election investigator and he prays that the former state Supreme Court justice isn't named to the panel.
