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St. Paul –The Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development (DEED) has awarded $344,000 in Launch Minnesota Innovation Grants to 13 high technology startups. In round two of grant funding, Launch Minnesota awarded 13 business operations grants and two housing/childcare grants. Of the 13 business awardees, 73% are women, veteran or minority-owned or are headquartered in Greater Minnesota. “These grants are a solid economic development investment for the state of Minnesota,” said Kevin McKinnon, DEED Deputy Commissioner of Econo...
St. Paul, MN: In close coordination with the statewide response led by the Department of Health, the Minnesota Department of Corrections is standing up an agency command post and incident management team to ensure coordination with the state’s health and emergency management functions and DOC correctional facilities and field offices. The DOC has also implemented a number of measures to keep COVID-19 out of Minnesota’s correctional facilities. The DOC pandemic response team has been meeting regularly since early February to ensure the exi...
WASHINGTON – This week, Department of the Interior Assistant Secretary - Indian Affairs Tara Sweeney issued two separate decisions taking lands into trust for the Cahto Tribe of the Laytonville Rancheria and the Catawba Indian Nation. These historic decisions, and the records supporting them, benefited from recently released guidance establishing a clear, four-step process for analyzing trust acquisitions under the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2009 decision in Carcieri v. United States. “These decisions empower the Cahto Tribe and the Catawba Natio...
Carlton County Sheriff's Office deputies were called to Black Bear Casino and Resort Monday, March 9, after a caller reported a person with a hand gun and a shot fired inside the Seven Fires Steakhouse there. According to a press release from the Sheriff's Office, deputies arrived and found a male deceased, by self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head, in the restaurant. There were no other injuries and the incident was isolated to the steakhouse. https://www.pineknotnews.com/story/2020/03/06/news/law-enforcement-respond-to-s...
St. Paul – Minnesota added 8,500 private sector jobs during January and unemployment dropped a tenth of a point to 3.2% during the first month of 2020, according to seasonally adjusted figures released today by the Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development (DEED). The national unemployment rate was 3.6% in January, up a tenth of a point from December. “Minnesota experienced the strongest private sector job growth in January that it’s seen in 20 months, tightening an already lean labor market,” said DEED Commissioner Steve G...
It was standing room only as Band members, and friends of Red Lake Nation slowly streamed into the Red Lake Seven Clans Casino Event Center on Friday, February 28, 2020. They were there to attend the annual State of the Band Address scheduled to begin at 11:00 a.m. "Sovereignty is Our Power" was the theme. In this annual report to the people, Red Lake Chairman Darrell G. Seki, Sr., along with Tribal Treasurer Annette Johnson and Secretary Samuel R. Strong, would recap the Tribal Council's 2019...
