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4 days ago · ‘Substantial evidence’ Gaetz paid for sex with minor, U.S. House Committee says BY: Ashley Murray - December 23, 2024 President-elect Donald Trump’s first choice for attorney general in his second presidency, former Florida Congressman Matt Gaetz, paid for sex, including with a minor, used illegal drugs and sought to obstruct investigators, according to a U.S. House Committee on Ethics ...
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Minnesota: An easy mark BY: J. Patrick Coolican - December 13, 2024 Last week Gov. Tim Walz told Minnesotans that one of the drivers of the state’s emerging “fiscal imbalance” — i.e., over the next couple years, we’ll be spending more than we’re taking in — is the rapid increase in spending on early intervention for children on the autism spectrum.
Charter schools, chemtrails and bong water: 2024 in review
4 days ago · Minnesota 4th graders are performing worse on standardized reading tests than their peers in Mississippi. At least six state lawmakers have been arrested and charged with various crimes while in office. Bong water can send you to prison for decades. Those are a few of the more startling things I’ve learned in a year of […]
Republicans win MN House majority, for now, after judge rules …
Dec 20, 2024 · District Court Judge Leonardo Castro on Friday ruled that Democrat Curtis Johnson did not meet the residency requirement to serve in the Minnesota House, enjoining him from receiving an election certificate and saying the seat should be filled through a special election. Castro, in a blistering opinion, said Johnson did not meet the requirement that […]
Minnesota's budget outlook: Smaller surplus, deficits down the …
Dec 4, 2024 · With a multi-billion dollar deficit looming in a few years, the divided state Legislature must decide next session whether to address the imbalance immediately, or delay potential budget cuts or tax increases until 2027. That’s the prognosis of the state’s budget agency, which released a detailed forecast on Wednesday. Budget analysts project that state lawmakers […]
Minnesota: An easy mark • Minnesota Reformer
Dec 13, 2024 · On this score, state government finally seems to be awakening from a stupor. Just consider the evolution at the Department of Human Services since June, when then-Reformer reporter Deena Winter asked the agency about skyrocketing growth in the number of autism treatment providers and spending in the past five years.“I don’t think we are surprised or particularly disturbed by the rate of ...
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The Minnesota Reformer is an independent, nonprofit news organization dedicated to keeping Minnesotans informed and unearthing stories other outlets can’t or won’t tell. We’re in the halls of government tracking what elected officials are up to — and monitoring the powerful forces trying to influence them. But we’re also on the streets, at the bars […]
Manufacturing already has made a comeback • Minnesota Reformer
Nov 13, 2024 · Employees work at a Rivian electric vehicle factory in Normal, Ill., in 2021. A historic recovery in manufacturing jobs between 2019 and 2023 was concentrated in small urban areas such as McLean County, where Normal is located, …
The Topline: 5.5 degrees of warming (so far) • Minnesota Reformer
Oct 28, 2024 · 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: How climate change is already affecting different regions of the state; racial bias in traffic stops versus traffic cameras; the data on reform prosecutors’ records; and […]
Election Day is here: Finally, mercifully, the voters get to do the ...
Nov 5, 2024 · Christopher Ingraham covers greater Minnesota and reports on data-driven stories across the state. He's the author of the book "If You Lived Here You'd Be Home By Now," about his family's journey from the Baltimore suburbs to rural northwest Minnesota.