Share This Story Democratic Minnesota Sen. Nicole Mitchell didn’t speak once — with the exception of saying “I do” when she was put under oath — when she appeared with her attorneys before a Senate ethics panel Tuesday evening. The embattled first-term senator from Woodbury was charged with felony first-degree burglary last month and was accused of breaking into her elderly stepmother’s Detroit Lakes home in the early hours of the morning on April 22. Her arrest has upended the final days of the legislative session as Republicans argue she should resign or face discipline from the chamber. As ..read more

Share This Story With less than two weeks remaining in what DFL leaders said would be a relatively politically quiet legislative session, the 2024 non-budget year in the Minnesota House and Senate has been anything but. As a $985 million DFL-sponsored bonding package begins working its way through both chambers in the closing days before the May 20 deadline, a number of controversial proposals Democrats introduced as standalone bills earlier in session have been tucked in omnibus bills. The fate of those provisions are being meted out by several bipartisan conference committees meeting th ..read more

Share This Story (The Center Square) — Two reports released Monday show that the U.S. combined Social Security trust fund is projected to deplete its reserves by 2035. The Trustees for Social Security and Medicare released annual reports on Monday. The Trustees projected the Medicare Hospital Insurance trust fund will exhaust its reserves in 2036. The Social Security Old-Age and Survivors Insurance (OASI) trust fund was projected to be insolvent by 2033. Maya MacGuineas, president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, said the reports reflect what Congress has long known. “We’re l ..read more

Share This Story In a letter sent to a congressional committee, House Majority Whip Tom Emmer, R-Minn., demanded that no funding be allocated to a federal program that provides shelter, transportation, food, and other services to migrants. Citing the ongoing migration crisis and concerns about illegal immigrants being transported with federal funds, the fifth-term lawmaker said the Shelter and Services Program (SSP) “should receive no funds until abuse in the program has ended.” A part of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), the SSP issues grants to non-governmental organizations (N ..read more

Share This Story A proposed “Equal Rights Amendment” to the Minnesota Constitution would go before voters in the 2026 election under language approved by a key committee Monday. The language of the amendment, called the ERA for short, has been sharply criticized by faith leaders who say its name is misleading because it would threaten the safety of women and undermine religious liberty. “What’s at stake here is not so much equal rights for women, but rather I would say a kind of imposition of the sexual revolution on the people of our state,” Bishop Robert Barron of the Diocese of Winona-Roche ..read more

Share This Story Mineral leases in Minnesota’s Superior National Forest were canceled by the federal government after a left-wing environmental group had off-the-books meetings with officials employed by the U.S. Department of the Interior, according to Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo. In a contentious back-and-forth exchange, Hawley questioned Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland about the canceled mineral leases and undisclosed meetings between federal officials and The Wilderness Society. The exchange occurred at a committee meeting of the U.S. Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee. Accord ..read more

Share This Story It’s been less than a week since a group of anti-Israel activists on the University of Minnesota’s Minneapolis campus packed up their tents and provisions and ended their encampment protest on Northrop Mall. And now come the questions: How much was the damage incurred by the boycott/divestment/sanctions protesters? Who will pay for it? Members of the Minnesota House of Representatives debated that topic on Friday during discussion on how the legislature should appropriate a half-million budget target to the public higher education system acro ..read more

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Share This Story Former President Donald Trump will headline the Minnesota Republican Party’s annual Lincoln Reagan dinner, party chairman David Hann announced Monday. “We are thrilled to welcome President Trump back to Minnesota to headline our Lincoln Reagan dinner, an annual tradition that reminds us of the roots of our Party and the leaders who have been most impactful in promoting our American values. I can think of no one more fitting to join us this year than President Trump,” Hann said. This will be the former president’s first trip to Minnesota in the 2024 election cycle. Trump campai ..read more

Share This Story (Daily Caller News Foundation) — This week, the Public Interest Legal Foundation filed two federal lawsuits in Minnesota and Wisconsin to end these states’ special exemptions from a federal election transparency law. Congress decided three decades ago that transparency is an essential component of any election infrastructure. That’s why the National Voter Registration Act, usually called “Motor Voter,” deemed all records related to who is eligible and not eligible to vote to be public records — except in six states. These records include voter rolls, remov ..read more