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A Journal of the Free People of Minnesota
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With federal environmental law in meltdown, Minnesota needs to step up
Published: April 29, 2025 11:00
There’s a battle at the Minnesota Legislature this session to defend environmental standards from attacks by industry. A bipartisan group of Minnesota legislators recently attempted to repeal the environmental rules that protect wild rice and prohibit…
Craig announces Senate run
https://minnesotareformer.com/2025/04/29/craig-announces-senate-run/
Published: April 29, 2025 09:55
Democratic U.S. Rep. Angie Craig, who has won a string of victories in the closely divided 2nd Congressional District, is running for U.S. Senate to replace Sen. Tina Smith, who recently announced her retirement. Craig, who has represented the 2nd District…
Trump orders list of ‘sanctuary cities’ to target for funding freeze
Published: April 29, 2025 02:22
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump on Monday evening signed executive orders targeting so-called sanctuary cities by threatening to revoke federal funding and providing legal services and national security assets to law enforcement. The signings fell on…
Trump border czar defends removal of U.S. citizen children
Published: April 28, 2025 20:53
WASHINGTON — White House border czar Tom Homan on Monday blamed the parents of U.S. citizen children the Trump administration sent to Honduras over the weekend. At a Monday morning press conference, Homan defended the government’s actions to remove three…
House Republicans grill Keith Ellison over 2021 meeting with Feeding Our Future fraudsters
Published: April 28, 2025 19:34
Republicans on the House fraud prevention committee grilled Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison on Monday over a 2021 meeting with people ensnared in the massive Feeding Our Future scandal, which took place just a month before the FBI shut down the…
Minnesota House considers repealing unemployment for hourly school workers in 2029
Published: April 28, 2025 19:08
Just two years after Minnesota became the first state to extend unemployment insurance to school bus drivers, cafeteria workers and teachers’ aids, Democratic legislators are considering eliminating the benefit after summer 2028 to reach a budget deal with…
The Topline: A staggering drop in Black homeownership
https://minnesotareformer.com/2025/04/28/the-topline-a-staggering-drop-in-black-homeownership/
Published: April 28, 2025 16:04
Welcome to The Topline, a weekly roundup of the big numbers driving the Minnesota news cycle, as well as the smaller ones that you might have missed. This week: green cities; a stunning decline in Black homeownership; America’s most polluted air; an…
Minnesota and 11 other states sue Trump, administration to block tariffs
Published: April 28, 2025 11:00
This story first appeared on the Oregon Capital Chronicle. Twelve states are suing President Donald Trump and officials in his administration over tariffs that have touched nearly all goods imported into the United States. The suit, State of Oregon, et…
Medicaid cuts may disproportionately affect Black, Latino doctors and their patients
Published: April 28, 2025 11:00
Los Angeles pediatrician and urgent care specialist Dr. Ilan Shapiro worries for his chronically ill patients as he watches Congress weigh significant cuts to Medicaid. He thinks of a boy who, before finding Shapiro’s clinic, was in and out of emergency…
Spend money on people, not prisons
https://minnesotareformer.com/2025/04/28/spend-money-on-people-not-prisons/
Published: April 28, 2025 11:00
Minnesota taxpayers entrust our government with billions of dollars each year to make Minnesota a safe and dignified place to live — including for people in prison. It’s hard to believe we might throw away hundreds of millions of dollars trying to salvage…
FBI arrests Milwaukee County judge
https://minnesotareformer.com/2025/04/25/fbi-arrests-milwaukee-county-judge/
Published: April 25, 2025 20:59
FBI agents arrested Milwaukee County Judge Hannah Dugan on Friday, accusing her of obstructing an immigration enforcement action last week. Dugan was arrested at 8:30 a.m. at the county courthouse, according to the U.S. Marshal’s Service. She was scheduled…
Tax policy, Medicaid funding cuts could scuttle Republicans’ ‘big, beautiful bill’
Published: April 25, 2025 18:14
WASHINGTON — Republicans in Congress have a difficult few months ahead of them as they look to broker agreement within their exceptionally narrow majority on policy issues that have already begun to divide centrists from far-right members of the party. The…
Minnesota Democrats look for money to stave off federal cuts — and other labor news
Published: April 25, 2025 15:25
Take a seat in the Break Room, our weekly round-up of labor news in Minnesota and beyond. This week: Minnesota Democrats hold out hope for softening budget cuts; bill would give teachers $1,200 bonuses; Minneapolis nursing home workers reach deal after…
St. Paul may be ailing, but the city has sharply reduced gun violence
Published: April 25, 2025 14:21
Saint Paul is a mess these days. Hannibal Buress once joked about St. Paul at a Turf Club show by saying, “fraternal twins,” i.e., there’s Minneapolis and then its runtier, sleepier, duller twin. We’ve lost our only grocery store downtown, which is…
Tech-related tariffs remain uncertain, but prepare for cost hikes, experts say
Published: April 25, 2025 11:00
The price of technology goods and services in the U.S. will likely rise in the next few months, experts say, as the White House continues to shift its strategy on tariffs for imported electronic hardware. After initial reports that Chinese goods would…
Trump administration faces suit over withheld family planning funds
Published: April 24, 2025 21:39
WASHINGTON — The National Family Planning and Reproductive Health Association and the American Civil Liberties Union filed a lawsuit in federal court Thursday challenging the Trump administration’s decision to withhold Title X family planning grants. The…
Federal judges pause U.S. Education Department enforcement of DEI ban
Published: April 24, 2025 21:37
A federal judge in Maryland ordered the Trump administration Thursday to pause enforcement of a new U.S. Education Department ban on diversity, equity and inclusion practices. The order came as another federal judge in New Hampshire issued a preliminary…
Senate ethics committee: Champion should disclose even appearance of conflict of interest
Published: April 24, 2025 20:01
The Senate ethics committee on Thursday recommended that Senate President Bobby Joe Champion in the future disclose “any appearance of a potential conflict of interest” to Senate committees when he chief authors a bill, following Reformer reporting that…
With Craig signaling Senate run, Mike Norton edges closer to bid for CD2
Published: April 24, 2025 19:51
Former Minneapolis DFL vice chair, prolific X poster and business owner Mike Norton has taken another step toward running for the south metro seat held by U.S. Rep. Angie Craig, Norton said Thursday. He’s formed an exploratory committee that is often a…
National Dems to deliver more than $1M a month to state parties
Published: April 24, 2025 14:48
The Democratic National Committee will transfer more than $1 million per month to its state and territorial parties over the next four years in an effort to build state-level infrastructure and operations, the DNC announced Thursday. The agreement marks…
‘Minnesota nice’ isn’t so nice when you can’t find a place to live
Published: April 24, 2025 11:00
Minnesota has a shortage of affordable housing, forcing people having to live in encampments and cars and on borrowed couches. According to the Wilder Foundation, Indigenous people make up 20% of the homeless population — but just 2% of the state’s…
Walz, sounding like a candidate, hammers Trump in state of the state address
https://minnesotareformer.com/2025/04/23/walz-hammers-trump-in-state-of-state-address/
Published: April 24, 2025 03:09
Gov. Tim Walz on Wednesday night delivered his seventh state of the state address, cleverly using the state’s grim budget outlook to paint himself as the man in the middle, ready to bring lawmakers to a compromise in the fashion of his long ago campaign…
U.S. Senate Dems request report on cuts to Social Security Administration
Published: April 23, 2025 18:02
WASHINGTON — A handful of leading U.S. Senate Democrats on Wednesday asked the Social Security Administration’s acting inspector general to examine how reductions in staff, closing some regional offices and other changes implemented by the Trump…
Attorney General Ellison sues Trump administration over trans athlete ban
Published: April 23, 2025 16:44
Attorney General Keith Ellison is suing the Trump administration over two executive orders targeting transgender children and adults, alleging among other things that they amount to the federal government “commandeering the States to carry out federal law…
Poll: Belief in false measles claims correlated with lower vaccination rates
Published: April 23, 2025 15:31
WASHINGTON — Americans are increasingly unsure what to believe about measles as an outbreak spreads throughout the country, according to a survey released Wednesday by the nonpartisan health research organization KFF. The poll shows that nearly a quarter…
In win for landlords, appeals court strikes down eviction expungement law
Published: April 23, 2025 14:21
Life just got harder for Minnesotans who want to shed the stigma — and the practical complications — of a past eviction. In a unanimous decision released Monday, a three-judge panel of the Minnesota Court of Appeals struck down a portion of a 2023 law…
MN Senate energy bill could dial back landmark climate policies
Published: April 23, 2025 13:21
The Minnesota Senate advanced a DFL-sponsored bill earlier this month that would sunset the state’s pathbreaking community solar program in 2028 and significantly reduce the financial benefits of onsite solar for utility customers in small towns, rural…
Minnesota Democrats float $1,200 annual bonuses for teachers
https://minnesotareformer.com/2025/04/23/minnesota-democrats-float-1200-annual-bonuses-for-teachers/
Published: April 23, 2025 12:00
Public and charter school teachers could receive a boost in pay in the form of a $1,200 refundable tax credit under a bill pitched by Minnesota Democrats. The bill (SF186) could help Minnesota schools struggling to attract and retain teachers, but the…
Transgender troops ban, nationwide freeze argued in U.S. appeals court
Published: April 22, 2025 22:24
WASHINGTON — A three-judge panel for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit on Tuesday grilled the Trump administration and the attorney for transgender service members who won a lower court order reversing President Donald Trump’s…
Federal appeals court clarification limits refugees allowed to settle in U.S.
Published: April 22, 2025 22:19
Only refugees who were closest to arriving in the United States are covered by an order the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit issued last month partially blocking the Trump administration from suspending the U.S. Refugee Admissions Program, the…
Champion denies conflict of interest, wrongdoing in first ethics hearing on funding for legal client
Published: April 22, 2025 20:21
Senate President Bobby Joe Champion, DFL-Minneapolis, denied to the ethics committee Tuesday that he did anything wrong when he spearheaded $3 million in state grants to a nonprofit run by a legal client, north Minneapolis Rev. Jerry McAfee. Champion…
MN Republicans introduce vaccine criminalization bill drafted by Florida hypnotist
Published: April 22, 2025 15:50
A group of eight Republicans in the Minnesota House have introduced legislation (HF3219) that would designate certain vaccines and medical treatments as “weapons of mass destruction” and make possessing or administering them a crime punishable by up to 20…
Bill aims to promote school integration in Minnesota with state funding incentives
Published: April 22, 2025 13:01
The number of intensely segregated school sites in the Twin Cities has grown almost five-fold, from 21 to over 100, since the turn of the century, according to University of Minnesota researcher Will Stancil. If enacted, HF2899 would fund incentives for…
Social media companies are like tobacco companies; tax their products for their harms
Published: April 22, 2025 12:40
If you are sick of big tech’s creepy data collection and invasive advertisements, then you might like a new bill, authored by Senate Taxes Committee Chair Ann Rest, DFL-New Hope, proposing a tax on data collection by large social media platforms. By…