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Fourth human case of bird flu diagnosed in Colorado dairy farm worker

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Digital Fair Repair Act is important to farmers but not enough (Commentary)

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Biden administration announces new rule to protect workers from heat-related illnesses

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‘No kings in America’: Biden slams U.S. Supreme Court ruling granting Trump immunity

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Roberts’ Rules: Presidents can kill like despots. Commentary by attorney Marshall Tanick:

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In Topline: ➡️Minnesota jails people at a higher rate than Russia ➡️Minnesota one of the safest states for pedestrians ➡️Joe Biden is quite old ➡️Minnesota is not especially diverse from the standpoint of religion

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Presidential immunity extends to some official acts, Supreme Court rules in Trump case

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Fraud in nutrition, health care and other public programs paint a discouraging picture of the state’s competence and integrity. @ehbinmn.bsky.social argues the problem is delegating the work of government to nonprofits and private businesses. (Commentary)

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North Dakota officials object to Minnesota carbon-free energy law in public comments

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U.S. Supreme Court flips precedent that empowered federal agencies

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Search warrant lays out what the FBI found on defendants’ phones in juror bribery case — including a google search for ‘how did oj Simpson juror get paid’ and ‘jury nullification’

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In the Break Room: 👉Amazon warehouse cited for unsafe working conditions 👉Mpls council uncommitted on police union contract 👉 Alleged wage theft and discrimination at Environmental StoneWorks 👉Mpls parks face looming strike 👉 More

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The key 2024 races that will determine control of the Minnesota Legislature. It's all here:

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Commentary: MPD "coaching" purports to deal with misconduct with extra training or meeting with a supervisor. The city claims that this doesn’t amount to discipline, so no publicly available records are kept. You can imagine the problem.

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Five people charged with attempting to bribe Feeding Our Future juror

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Treasury Secretary promotes Biden housing, economic development policies in Minnesota visit

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DFL candidate touts experience as administrator of treatment center, but its license was revoked

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Environmental StoneWorks workers allege widespread wage theft, racial discrimination

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Democratic governors say abortion will be on the November ballot

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Just one Minnesota company has so far upheld a promise to not give money to election deniers: Golden Valley-based Cheerio maker, General Mills.

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The new Minneapolis police contract would push starting officers’ salaries to $92,693 annually by next summer — higher than the Los Angeles Police Department or New York Police Department. Council takes up the issue this week:

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Commentary: Stallings was acquitted, a Minneapolis police officer wound up pleading guilty to assault, and the city had to pay Stallings $1.5 million for his ordeal. But MPD is still claiming officers didn’t lie about what went on that night. minnesotareformer.com/2024/06/21/m...

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Details of the investigation are unknown, but what’s certain is that growth of spending on the autism program has exploded in recent years.

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House DFL piling up cash advantage over House Republicans.

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The Topline: Is Minneapolis really the happiest city in the U.S.?

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Iron Range columnist Aaron Brown interrogates the general repulsion to a foreign company buying U.S. Steel and asks... is it really that bad?

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Biofuel plants a significant source of air pollution in Midwest, study finds

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In the Break Room: 👉Supreme Court sides with Starbucks 👉Nursing home workers call off strike 👉Problems with the frontline worker pay program 👉 the loudest union critic of the Twin Cities' lefty leaders.

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State abortion bans forcing interstate travel, U.S. Senate panel hears

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The high court unanimously rejected attempts by anti-abortion groups to roll back access to what was in place more than eight years ago, writing that they lacked standing to bring the case.

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On the U.S.-Mexico border, hopes and fears after Biden’s order limiting asylum

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Republican IVF bill fails in U.S. Senate

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Commentary: No one’s health should be held hostage by private companies that reward investors with the money we pay for care. Yet that’s exactly what UnitedHealth Group and other for-profit insurers do every day, all across the country.

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FBI raids suburban homes in connection with attempted juror bribe in Feeding Our Future case

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Text messages obtained by the Minnesota Reformer show Steve Grove, the publisher and CEO of the Star Tribune and former DEED commissioner, offered advice and compliments to the Walz administration after he took over the Star Tribune.

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A state audit found waste and fraud in Minnesota's frontline worker pay program while laying much of the blame on flawed law

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Election workers worry that federal threats task force isn’t enough to keep them safe

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Environmental groups call for hearings over MPCA issues

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In ruling that bong water is a drug mixture, the Minnesota Supreme Court justices relied, in part, on the testimony of a state patrol officer who claimed that drug users keep bong water “for future use… either drinking it or shooting it in the veins.”

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Minnesota’s new Uber and Lyft law just cements their duopoly in place (Commentary)

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5 Feeding Our Future defendants found guilty, 2 acquitted in sprawling fraud case

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This week in the Break Room: 👨‍🏭DFL agrees to hearings on copper-nickel mining 👵 nursing home workers threaten second strike 🚓Minneapolis police approve union contract 🚚 Senators chastise Amazon over treatment of delivery drivers

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On 80th anniversary of D-Day invasion, Biden and Macron honor WWII veterans at Normandy

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Minnesota optometrists get thumb in the eye from big donors, House speaker

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Commentary: Guaranteed basic income programs trust that individuals know best how to improve their lives.

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