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The Legislature is on the cusp of sending a marijuana legalization bill to Gov. Tim Walz's desk. The DFL-controlled House was headed to a final vote to legalize recreational marijuana on Thursday night, with the measure expected to pass. A Senate vote could happen as early as Friday, potentially sending the bill to Walz by this weekend. The governor has pledged to sign it. "The day has finally arrived. Today is the day that we are going to vote here in the House for the last time to legalize...
Minnesota employers are worried about the consequences of on-site safety - and general job competence - should a bill to legalize recreational marijuana in the state become law. As lawmakers consider whether Minnesota should join 18 states in legalizing pot, scores of concerned business owners gathered Wednesday to hear from attorneys, doctors, workers' compensation and human resource professionals at a forum in Maple Grove sponsored by the Minnesota Chamber of Commerce. "For employers this is...
One-time rebates. Tax credits for families. Social Security tax cuts. More money for local governments. Tax hikes for some. After weeks of negotiations, DFLers struck a deal on $3 billion in tax cuts, a proposal that still needs to pass both chambers. They praised the final proposal as one that puts money back into Minnesotans' pockets while giving extra to low-income families, local communities, homeowners and renters. "There are really incredible, transformational things in this bill that...
A GOP senator filed an ethics complaint against DFL Sen. Omar Fateh of Minneapolis, claiming Fateh falsely accused colleagues of conflating immigrants with terrorists and drug dealers and that he likened Republicans to white supremacists. Fateh made his comments on Feb. 22 during debate on a bill, now law, that will allow unauthorized immigrants in Minnesota to obtain driver's licenses. Sen. Jeff Howe's complaint, dated April 24, cited Fateh's statements on the floor: "The fact is that our...
DFL Party leaders unanimously backed a plan Thursday to sanction anyone who incites or engages in violence at a party event, a move to contain the fallout from a weekend Minneapolis ward convention that descended into chaos. Then they immediately sanctioned the candidate at the center of it. At an emergency evening meeting of the DFL's executive committee, which included testimony from people caught up in last Saturday's violence, members unanimously approved a plan by Chair Ken Martin to allow...
An unpopular season is in full swing in Minnesota, now through early July, and with a returning champion. "It's here," said the Department of Health epidemiologist Elizabeth Schiffman. Blacklegged ticks, aka deer ticks, transmit Lyme disease and are a high risk beginning this part of May. Both nymphs (the size of poppyseeds) and adults are out looking for hosts this time of year. While the COVID-19 pandemic limited the monitoring by infectious disease experts of ticks, Schiffman said there is...
A stinking mystery, where feces of an unknown origin rained down from the sky on a constituent's car, has U.S. Rep. Angie Craig seeking answers from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). Carisa Browne was waiting May 12 at a Caribou Coffee drive-thru in Burnsville with her 6-year-old son when she noticed gobs of brown, smelly liquid pelt her Honda Prelude. "It was like the weight of heavy raindrops, but all at the same time, and my car was covered in brown," Browne said. "I was like, 'Oh...
Eating an ice cream cone in the living room of the south Minneapolis apartment where he lives with his mom and little sister, Miguel Torres Jr. is a normal 12-year-old boy - save for the 20 stitches and 14 staples that crisscross his body. Just days before, he awoke from a medically induced coma following a May 6 knife attack at the hands of his mother's ex-boyfriend. Miguel's wounds are a grim reminder of how children - frequently young boys - are caught up in the violence of domestic abuse....
Police are turning to the public for help finding the driver who hit a man walking in the middle of the night in south Minneapolis and leaving him in the intersection to die. The hit-and-run crash occurred about occurred about 3:30 a.m. Sunday at 26th Street E. and Hiawatha Avenue S., and claimed the life of Kendrick M. Hemphill, 36, of Minneapolis. Hemphill was walking home from a security job at the time, police said. https://www.startribune.com/minneapolis-police-ask-publi...
May 18, 2023 (SAINT PAUL) — Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison announced today the successful results of a joint investigation that his office, with the assistance of the Hennepin County Attorney’s Office and the Minneapolis City Attorney’s Office, conducted into the inaction on the part of Merwin Liquors and Winner Gas Station to take steps to stem the illegal activity occurring on their properties. The Attorney General’s investigation, undertaken with the assistance of the Hennepin County Attorney’s Office and the Minneapolis City Atto...
Efforts to curb violent crime at an infamous intersection in north Minneapolis have led to a significant reduction in incidents, Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison said Thursday at a news conference. Ellison announced in September that his office would investigate whether Merwin Liquors and a Winner Gas station across the street "are maintaining or permitting an unlawful public nuisance on their properties," responding to community complaints over open-air drug dealing and violent crime...
The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) has issued an air quality alert for the entire state of Minnesota. The alert runs until Friday, May 19, at 6 a.m. A band of very heavy ground-level smoke from wildfires in northern Alberta and Saskatchewan is currently moving along a cold front in northwestern Minnesota. The smoke will continue to move south and east and eventually impact the entire state of Minnesota. The smoke should clear rapidly overnight into Friday morning. Fine particle...
Given the options of two coders working remotely - one who happened to live in Minnesota and one from at least a plane ride away - one local tech CEO would hire the in-state talent, for sure. "But unfortunately," said Dean Hager of Minneapolis-based software company Jamf, "we're in the situation where we don't necessarily get to have that choice." In the next 10 years, Minnesota businesses will have to fill 81,000 tech jobs, including 45,000 in the next five years, vacancies mostly from...
KYIV, Ukraine - Russia fired 30 cruise missiles against different parts of Ukraine early Thursday in the latest nighttime test of Ukrainian air defenses, which shot down 29 of them, officials said. One person was killed and two were wounded by a Russian missile that got through and struck an industrial building in the southern region of Odesa, according to Serhiy Bratchuk, a spokesperson for the region's military administration. Amid the recently intensified Russian air assaults, China said its...
MADISON, Wis. - A federal judge said Thursday he is unlikely to force an energy company to shut down an oil pipeline in northern Wisconsin, despite arguments from a Native American tribe that the line is at immediate risk of being exposed by erosion and rupturing on reservation land. U.S. District Judge William Conley said the Bad River Band of Lake Superior Chippewa didn't prove that an emergency exists along a stretch of the Enbridge Line 5 pipeline where large sections of nearby riverbank...
DETROIT — More than 33 million people in the United States are driving vehicles that contain a potentially deadly threat: Airbag inflators that in rare cases can explode in a collision and spew shrapnel. Few of them know it. And because of a dispute between federal safety regulators and an airbag parts manufacturer, they aren't likely to find out anytime soon. https://www.startribune.com/more-than-30-million-us-drivers-dont-know-if-theyre-at-risk-from-a-rare-but-dangerous-airbag-blast/600275945/...
WASHINGTON - The federal courts' policymaking body in 2011 mishandled ethics complaints surrounding financial disclosures by Justice Clarence Thomas, a sitting federal judge testified Wednesday. While those complaints are more than a decade old, how the Judicial Conference of the United States approached them has fresh relevance, with Senate Democrats pushing the same body to consider recent revelations about Thomas' close ties with Dallas real estate billionaire Harlan Crow. "The Judicial...
WARROAD, Minn. — A proposed ban on the use of Native American nicknames and mascots in Minnesota public school districts is inching closer to becoming law after the Minnesota House and Senate approved a version of the education spending and policy bill containing the policy. Throughout the legislative session, the proposed ban has caused concern in Warroad, Minnesota, where the school district uses the “Warroad Warriors” nickname. On Tuesday, May 16, the Minnesota House passed House Bill 2497, followed by the Senate early on Wednesday morni...
SALAMANCA, NY -The Seneca Indian Nation gave approval yesterday to allow a local public school district on their land to continue to use its "Warriors" name and imagery. The approval comes a month after the New York Board of Regents voted to ban public schools across the state from using Native or Indigenous nicknames, and imagery unless schools receive written approval from any of the state's federally recognized tribes. "The regulations recently approved by the New York State Board of Regents...
PHOENIX- More than 100 Arizona healthcare providers are under investigation for insurance fraud that targeted Native Americans and cost taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars. In a press conference yesterday, state officials and representatives from 13 of the state's federally recognized tribes announced efforts to crack down on Medicaid fraud, including cutting off payments to the suspended providers pending an investigation by state and federal officials. "Today, we are announcing actions...
ANCHORAGE, Alaska — For years, when the tiny Alaska Native village of Rampart's awful internet service would go down, the only way to reach the outside world was to await the small airplane that touched down daily with supplies and the occasional visitor. “We had no way of getting ahold of anybody out of Rampart other than going to the airport and telling the pilot,” said tribal administrator Margaret Moses. The pilot would relay messages — including word of medical emergencies — after flying 100 miles to Fairbanks. The Koyukon Athabasca...
Red Lake Warriors playing at Bemidji State University on May 18, 2023...
Red Lake High School and ALC Warrior's Academic Banquet held on Wednesday, May 17, 2023....
Red Lake Varsity and JV both drop games to Pine River at home...
7 Ponemah School Pow Wow held on May 12, 2023 Ponemah School Brave an Princess 2023-24 Kyler Kingbird an Cecilie Hardy...
