Initiative Aims To Put Rent Control On St. Paul's November Ballot
Rent control in St. Paul is one step closer to getting on the ballot in November.
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Rent control in St. Paul is one step closer to getting on the ballot in November.
Police misconduct allegations have cost taxpayers in the state's largest city tens of millions of dollars in the last decade alone. Just this year, Minneapolis paid a record settlement to the family of George Floyd. WCCO-TV has added up the costs, and spoke to experts about what the payouts reveal about policing in the city.
The Minnesota House and Senate are starting to meet in Special Session. Lawmakers need to pass a budget before July 1 or the government shuts down.
As COVID-19 case rates wane in Minnesota, Gov. Tim Walz's peacetime emergency powers have been extended for yet another moth.
As the special session of the legislature kicks off Monday, one of the topics that will be debated is police reform.
The Minnesota legislature will begin a special session Monday to hash out the $52 billion budget and resolve remaining policy disputes as quickly as possible to avoid a government shutdown.
Rep. Ilhan Omar tried edging away Thursday from a bitter fight with Jewish Democratic lawmakers who'd accused her of likening the U.S. and Israel to Hamas and Afghanistan's Taliban, saying her remarks were "in no way equating terrorist organizations with democratic countries."
The Minneapolis Police Department is seeking $5 million from Minneapolis City Council to cover overtime costs, as the department grapples with a depleted sworn force down more than 200 active officers from one year ago.
About 100 people gathered at a Minneapolis park Thursday before marching to Democratic Sen. Amy Klobuchar's office to promote shutting down reconstruction of an aging oil pipeline in northern Minnesota.
At the DFL endorsing convention this week, three council members who support defunding the police got the DFL endorsement. Three others did not.
Gov. Tim Walz told reporters that he's hoping they can get the work done during a special session that he will call for Monday, which could last several days.
In a sign of what Republicans might attempt when the House returns next week from recess, the National Republican Congressional Committee tweeted Thursday, "@Housedemocrats must vote to strip anti-Semite @IlhanMN of her committee assignments."
Nearly 250 people were arrested when protesters attempting to stop the final leg of the reconstruction of an oil pipeline across northwestern Minnesota took over a pump station, law enforcement officials said Wednesday.
The Wisconsin Senate approved Republican-backed bills Wednesday that would create new hurdles for the elderly and disabled to cast absentee ballots, limit the number and location of ballot drop boxes and impose new penalties for violating election law.
Future federal laws that would ban or restrict the use of guns could not be enforced in Wisconsin under a Republican-backed bill up for approval in the state Assembly Wednesday.
