How To Spend Federal COVID Relief Hangs Over Minnesota Legislature
Minnesota is set to receive more than $9 billion total in money to state and local governments and funds for targeted programs like education, housing and child care.
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Minnesota is set to receive more than $9 billion total in money to state and local governments and funds for targeted programs like education, housing and child care.
The community-driven charter amendment to replace the Minneapolis Police Department with a more holistic approach to public safety is one step closer to being on the November ballot.
The legislative session is slated to end on Monday, but top Democrats and Republicans at the state capitol said it's becoming increasingly unlikely that lawmakers will wrap everything up before then and avert a special session.
Juneteenth, observed on June 19, commemorates the day in 1865 when enslaved Black Americans in Galveston, Texas finally learned they had been freed two-and-a-half years earlier, when President Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation.
Wisconsin voters with disabilities urged lawmakers on Wednesday to reconsider two Republican-backed bills passed by the state Senate that would make it more difficult to cast absentee ballots as part of the broader GOP push to make it harder to vote by mail following Donald Trump's defeat.
Gov. Tim Walz joined a virtual roundtable with President Joe Biden Tuesday.
The Republican-controlled Wisconsin Legislature passed bills Tuesday that would make it more difficult to vote absentee — proposals that were all but certain to be vetoed by Democratic Gov. Tony Evers but that GOP lawmakers said were needed to address issues that arose during last year's presidential election.
The Minnesota House is slated to take up a bill Thursday that would legalize recreational marijuana, marking the first time that the issue has advanced to the chamber floor for a vote.
The national anthem would have to be played before all sporting events held at Wisconsin venues that received any public funding under a bill up for a vote Tuesday in the state Assembly.
Some parents are calling for an Elk River teacher to be fired after a discussion about police violence.
The Republican-controlled Wisconsin Legislature was scheduled to vote Tuesday on bills making it more difficult to vote absentee, proposals that are all-but certain to be vetoed by Democratic Gov. Tony Evers but that GOP lawmakers say are needed to address issues that arose during last year's presidential election.
Gov. Tim Walz says Minnesota is ready to vaccinate children ages 12 to 15 after the Food and Drug Administration earlier Monday granted emergency use authorization for the Pfizer shot for that age range.
Democratic Gov. Tim Walz expressed hope Monday that new guidelines over how states can spend the aid might help speed up the slow pace of negotiations over the state's next budget.
The cost of child care forced Kate Downey to make a choice: leave her teaching job and start a child care business of her own to make it all work.
Shootings, some fatal, are all playing out in and around where people live and work in Minneapolis.
