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

Fourth human case of bird flu diagnosed in Colorado dairy farm worker • Minnesota Reformerminnesotareformer.com WASHINGTON — Public health officials have diagnosed a Colorado farm worker with the country’s fourth human case of highly pathogenic avian influenza, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and...

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

Digital Fair Repair Act is important to farmers but not enough • Minnesota Reformerminnesotareformer.com Beginning July 1, Minnesotans will gain new options for fixing their smartphones, laptops and even home appliances. This is all thanks to the Digital Fair Repair Act, which is the most comprehensive r...

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

Biden administration announces new rule to protect workers from heat-related illnesses • Minnesota Reformerminnesotareformer.com WASHINGTON – Senior Biden administration officials announced a proposed rule Tuesday to prevent heat-related illness in the workplace, as climate change brings hotter temperatures around the nation. I...

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

‘No kings in America’: Biden slams U.S. Supreme Court ruling granting Trump immunity • Minnesota Reformerminnesotareformer.com Monday’s U.S. Supreme Court decision granting the presumption of criminal immunity for official actions taken by a president fundamentally altered U.S. democracy, President Joe Biden said from the Whi...

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

Roberts’ Rules: Presidents can kill like despots • Minnesota Reformerminnesotareformer.com Regrettably, but not surprisingly, the Supreme Court has now unleashed SEAL Team Six to murder anyone the president directs it to kill. By focusing only on whether the president’s actions fall within ...

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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

The Topline: Pedestrian deaths decline • Minnesota Reformerminnesotareformer.com 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: Minnesota imprisonment rates; pedestria...

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

Presidential immunity extends to some official acts, Supreme Court rules in Trump case • Minnesota Reformerminnesotareformer.com WASHINGTON — U.S. presidents enjoy full immunity from criminal charges for their official “core constitutional” acts, but no immunity for unofficial acts, the Supreme Court ruled Monday, sending forme...

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)

Privatizing government is a win for greedy middlemen, fraudsters • Minnesota Reformerminnesotareformer.com Privatization has played a key role both in Minnesota’s recent public policy failures.

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

North Dakota officials object to Minnesota carbon-free energy law in public comments • Minnesota Reformerminnesotareformer.com North Dakota officials on Wednesday approved a letter to Minnesota regulators warning that the state’s recent carbon-free energy standard may be unconstitutional.

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

U.S. Supreme Court flips precedent that empowered federal agencies • Minnesota Reformerminnesotareformer.com The U.S. Supreme Court struck down a precedent Friday that had for decades limited judicial power to strike executive branch regulations, in a decision immediately criticized for potentially undermini...

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’

Search warrant lays out what the FBI found on defendants' phones in juror bribery case • Minnesota Reformerminnesotareformer.com A search warrant says a Feeding Our Future defendant googled "jury nullification" and "how did OJ Simpson juror get paid" before an attempt to bribe a jury in his trial.

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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

Amazon warehouse cited for unsafe working conditions — and other labor news • Minnesota Reformerminnesotareformer.com Take a seat in the Break Room, our weekly round-up of labor news in Minnesota and beyond. This week: Amazon fined for violating new state labor laws; Minneapolis council uncommitted on police raises; ...

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

The key 2024 races that will determine control of the Minnesota Legislature • Minnesota Reformerminnesotareformer.com The stakes are huge.

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.

City Council should use its leverage on police contract to end MPD 'coaching' secrecy • Minnesota Reformerminnesotareformer.com The City Council should refuse to ratify any contract that contains the poison pill ruse of coaching as non-disciplinary and non-public.

Five people charged with attempting to bribe Feeding Our Future juror

Five people charged with attempting to bribe Feeding Our Future juror • Minnesota Reformerminnesotareformer.com A federal grand jury Wednesday indicted five people for attempting to bribe a juror in the Feeding Our Future fraud trial, in a case that is likely to raise questions about juror security in high-prof...

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

Treasury Secretary promotes Biden housing, economic development policies in Minnesota visit • Minnesota Reformerminnesotareformer.com U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen touted investments in affordable housing and community development on a visit to Minnesota this week, promoting the policies of President Joe Biden as he campaigns...

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

DFL candidate touts experience as administrator of treatment center, but its license was revoked • Minnesota Reformerminnesotareformer.com Minneapolis DFL candidate Anquam Mahamoud touts her job as administrator of a mental health provider/substance abuse treatment program, but it was repeatedly fined and its license revoked for numerous...

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Environmental StoneWorks workers allege widespread wage theft, racial discrimination

Environmental StoneWorks workers allege widespread wage theft, racial discrimination • Minnesota Reformerminnesotareformer.com Latino workers for a subsidiary of the largest manufacturer of exterior building products in North America say they were paid less than white workers because they were immigrants and allege Environmen...

Democratic governors say abortion will be on the November ballot

Walz, Democratic governors say abortion will be on the November ballot • Minnesota Reformerminnesotareformer.com Gov. Tim Walz used the second anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court Dobbs decision to highlight what he said would be the “major role” abortion will play in the November presidential election, and he ...

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

Minnesota companies fund election deniers despite vowing not to • Minnesota Reformerminnesotareformer.com In the wake of the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol, many leading Minnesota businesses announced they were pausing their political donations to review their giving strategy. Some went further, ...

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:

Union contract would increase MPD budget by millions, push police salaries past most peers • Minnesota Reformerminnesotareformer.com Minneapolis is considering giving its police officers historic raises of nearly 22%, pushing their pay to among the highest in the nation, even as state and federal officials are forcing the police de...

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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...

MPD still claiming officers were truthful in Jaleel Stallings case. They weren't. • Minnesota Reformerminnesotareformer.com An MPD spokesman recently made a provably untrue statement in the pages of the Washington Post.

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

FBI investigates Minnesota autism centers, which have exploded in growth since 2018 • Minnesota Reformerminnesotareformer.com The FBI is investigating possible Medicaid fraud in the treatment of autism in Minnesota, according to sources with knowledge of the investigation.

House DFL piling up cash advantage over House Republicans.

House DFL piling up cash advantage over House Republicans • Minnesota Reformerminnesotareformer.com The Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor House caucus has a large cash advantage over the GOP House caucus as of May 31, according to recent campaign finance reports. All 134 seats in the closely divided...

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

The Topline: Is Minneapolis really the happiest city in the U.S.? • Minnesota Reformerminnesotareformer.com 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: Klobuchar approval ratings; the “happie...

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

Allies in alloys • Minnesota Reformerminnesotareformer.com Everywhere you look, you see the intermingling of foreign investment and American industry.

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

Biofuel plants a significant source of air pollution in Midwest, study finds • Minnesota Reformerminnesotareformer.com A report out this week finds that biofuel refineries, which are overwhelmingly concentrated in the Midwest’s corn-producing states, emit significant amounts of compounds that foul the air and threaten...