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...
It’s a saga worthy of George Jefferson himself. The controversial Democratic Congresswoman from Minneapolis was back in the news today. More precisely, her eldest daughter was in the news for getting suspended from Barnard College as the result of an...
Although he has not been charged with or accused of any wrongdoing in the case, the name Abdirizak Diis features prominently in a key document for the upcoming free-food trial. The Federal trial will begin Monday morning of eight defendants associated with a...
Finally some leadership! A school board member in the state’s largest school district threw down the gauntlet this week with a list of policies, practices and funding choices that need to change before he and his colleagues will vote to approve the next budget....
Monopoly electric utility companies in Wisconsin are seeking massive bill increases on their customers because these companies are malinvesting $800 million by building new wind turbines, solar panels, and natural gas plants to replace the state’s retiring coal...
Childcare providers are having a hard time recruiting workers in Minnesota. According to the Star Tribune, A March survey by the Minneapolis Fed and First Children’s Finance found even though hiring woes have eased since the height of the COVID-19 pandemic,...