The Voyageurs National Park boat launch and all its campsites on Rainy Lake remain closed due to high water levels, as well as all back-country campsites in the entire park. Park spokeswoman Tawnya Schoewe says, “With the floating debris out there… you don’t even know what’s floating sometimes…. You can get to the site, but… […]
MN Senate Dems demand special session for anti-gun-violence measures
A group of Democratic senators wants lawmakers back in Saint Paul for a special session to pass an unfinished public safety bill, and include anti-gun-violence measures in it. Saint Louis Park Senator Ron Latz says Senate Republicans have repeatedly blocked even compromise measures for a “red flag” law and closing the background-check loophole on gun […]
State and federal teams start 3rd week of flood, storm damage assessments
Teams from the state and FEMA begin week three of assessing damage from flooding and severe storms that hit Minnesota since the third week of April. This week they’ll visit the Grand Portage Band Of Chippewa, and Aitkin, Cass, Cook, Lake, Lake of the Woods and Saint Louis counties — plus Koochiching County, still the […]
State trial for 2 officers charged in George Floyd’s death delayed until 2023
The state trial for two former Minneapolis police officers charged with George Floyd’s death has been moved to January 2023. Attorneys for former officers Tou Thao and J. Alexander Kueng requested last week that their trial be delayed and moved to a new location. The request to change the venue was denied. Jury selection is […]
USDA low-interest loans available to farmers hit by storms, flooding
Low-interest loans from the federal government are now available to ag producers in 60 Minnesota counties who have physical structure or livestock damage from this spring’s severe storms and/or flooding. Dan Mahoney with the U-S-D-A Farm Service Agency in Saint Paul says, “Producers can borrow up to 100 percent of the actual physical structure that […]
MCCL endorses Republican Brad Finstad for U-S House in 1st District
The group Minnesota Citizens Concerned for Life is endorsing Republican Brad Finstad in the August 9th special election for the First District U-S House seat formerly held by the late Congressman Jim Hagedorn. M-C-C-L’s Paul Stark says while Finstad was in the Minnesota House “he cast 63 different pro-life votes. That’s a perfect, 100-percent pro-life […]
MN exports now exceed pre-pandemic level
Minnesota’s first-quarter 2022 exports were 13 percent higher than first-quarter 2021, totaling 6.1 billion dollars. Employment and Economic Development Commissioner Steve Grove says, “We are now exporting more goods per quarter than we were before the pandemic, so we’ve not only returned to that…[point] but we’ve exceeded it — but of course you always want […]
MN GOP leaders slam Republican challenger to endorsed candidate in attorney general primary election
Leaders of the Republican Party of Minnesota have issued a strong statement against a Republican who’s challenging the party’s endorsed candidate in the high-profile race for Minnesota attorney general. Former state Representative Doug Wardlow, who did not receive the G-O-P endorsement at the state convention in Rochester, has filed papers to run against endorsed candidate […]
MN students walk out in protest of gun violence
Students in Minnesota are set to stage walkouts today in protest against gun violence. It comes in the wake of last week’s mass shooting at Robb Elementary School in Texas. Aaliyah Murray is a senior at Fridley High School and leader of the non-profit Minnesota Teen Activists. She says she doesn’t want to “be a […]
Finstad files to run for 1st District U-S House in August special election
The race for the First District U-S House seat formerly held by the late Congressman Jim Hagedorn is officially underway, with special primary election winner, Republican Brad Finstad filing today (Tues) to run in the August 9th special election. Finstad says, “Providing jobs as small employer in southern Minnesota, I just feel like I have […]