Despite New Measures, Future Of Police Reform In Minnesota Still Unclear
The debate continues about new police reforms passed in Minnesota.
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The debate continues about new police reforms passed in Minnesota.
Republicans who control the Minnesota Senate signaled Friday that they may fire one or more of Democratic Gov. Tim Walz's cabinet commissioners.
Minnesota's largest law enforcement organizations filed a lawsuit against Gov. Tim Walz and the state on Friday, alleging that the changes made during the 2020 legislative session around the use of deadly force by law enforcement officers are unconstitutional.
"In this country, neither the Amish nor anyone else should have to choose between their farms and their faith," Justice Neil Gorsuch said.
Gov. Tim Walz on Friday announced the candidates he is endorsing for the mayoral election in Minneapolis, St. Paul, and Brooklyn Park.
The Minneapolis City Council voted Friday to approve funds for the creation of an around-the-clock mobile mental health response team.
Republicans blocked Democratic proposals for tax increases on the wealthy. Instead the highlight of the tax bill was $1 billion in tax cuts for businesses and workers hit by the pandemic.
Businesses that received forgivable payroll loans from the federal government and Minnesotans who got extra jobless benefits last year will begin seeing state tax refunds in the next few weeks, the Minnesota Department of Revenue said Thursday, after the legislature signed off on a tax relief package before ending their work.
Threats to derail parts of a delicately crafted $52 billion budget agreement loomed in the final hours of the special session, but the Minnesota Legislature successfully passed outstanding pieces of the two-year state spending plan and averted a partial government shutdown.
Thousands of workers in the Twin Cities are getting a raise Thursday.
Support is pouring in for Minneapolis City Council Vice President Andrea Jenkins.
As the clock counts down to the midnight special session deadline, the Minnesota Legislature has made a number of last-minute changes, and Gov. Tim Walz has responded with an unexpected plan.
The Minnesota House and Senate Tuesday night and into early Wednesday morning approved a bill funding the state's prisons, courts and law enforcement agencies with some police accountability measures, though it fell short of what some DFL lawmakers and community activists were pushing for.
A federal grant of $60 million is slated to be used to improve a stretch of Interstate 494 near the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport.
A group of DFL lawmakers vowed to amend a public safety budget deal to include more police accountability measures left out of a final deal between leaders. But on Tuesday, they dropped their push for some of those provisions and accepted fewer, more narrow changes, paving the way for the bill to pass in time to keep government services operating.
