Here’s how much you need to make to live in Minnesota
Feb 14, 2024 · A single person in the Twin Cities metro area needs to earn $47,442 a year — about $22 an hour — to afford the basics: food, housing, health care, transportation and a cell phone. For a family of four, the parents need to earn at least $119,229 a …
The newbies: Get to know a few newly elected Minnesota lawmakers.
Nov 15, 2024 · Editor’s note: Over the next couple weeks, the Reformer will be introducing readers to the 22 new state House members and one new state senator. Voters on Nov. 5 elected 22 new members of the Minnesota House, including 14 freshmen Republicans and eight new Democratic-Farmer-Labor members. The Minnesota House is …
I watched ‘The Fall of Minneapolis’ so you don’t have to
Jan 11, 2024 · I never thought the prosecution of Derek Chauvin would be a slam dunk. Cops rarely get charged with, much less convicted of, crimes, and the fact that George Floyd had health problems and drugs in his system when he died was sure to be used by the defense at trial, as I wrote a few weeks before the murder trial began.. Alpha News Reporter Liz Collin, in her documentary “ The Fall of ...
Home heating assistance is available. Here’s how to get it.
Nov 14, 2024 · J. Patrick Coolican is Editor-in-Chief of Minnesota Reformer. Previously, he was a Capitol reporter for the Minneapolis Star Tribune for five years, after a Knight-Wallace Fellowship at the University of Michigan and time at the Las Vegas Sun, …
Latest 2024 farm income forecast shows overall decrease from 2023
Dec 3, 2024 · Farm income is forecasted to have decreased in 2024 by 4% from 2023, largely because of a decrease in cash receipts, or the gross income, from the sale of commodity crops, according to the December update of the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s farm income forecast.. Carrie Litkowski, the farm income team leader with USDA Economic Research Service, presented the latest update in a webinar ...
A straightforward explanation and defense of the new state flag …
Mar 8, 2024 · RED LAKE — In December, the State Emblems Redesign Commission, which was created by the Legislature, adopted the new Minnesota state flag.The new flag is brilliantly blue — like the sky above us and the waters around us. The color “Minnesota Blue” was chosen for the abstract shape of Minnesota as part of the new state flag.
Walz comes home ready to defend Minnesota, find common ground
Nov 8, 2024 · Gov. Tim Walz made his first official appearance in Minnesota since he lost his bid for vice president on Tuesday, and in a pep-rally-like speech, said he’s going to try to keep an open mind to people who disagree with him politically — a nod to the reality that the Democratic trifecta is gone and the governor will again have to navigate a split Legislature.
Summit pipeline decision in Minnesota could come Dec. 12
Nov 11, 2024 · An administrative law judge report recommends that Minnesota approve a small segment of the massive Summit Carbon Solutions project that would pass through states including South Dakota and store millions of tons of carbon dioxide underground in North Dakota. A final decision from the Minnesota Public Utilities …
Minnesota minimum wage to rise to $11.13 per hour, a 26
Aug 26, 2024 · Minimum wage workers in Minnesota will get the biggest pay bump in years in 2025 as a result of Democratic lawmakers eliminating the state’s wage tiers and raising the limit on inflation adjustments. The state currently has two hourly minimum wages: $10.85 for workers at large businesses (with revenues greater than $500,000) and $8.85 for […]
GOP-endorsed judicial candidate hyped Pizzagate and other …
Oct 10, 2024 · A GOP-endorsed candidate for district judge has promoted numerous fringe conspiracy theories, including the Pizzagate child sex trafficking hoax. Nathan Hansen, a practicing lawyer and longtime fixture on Minnesota’s conservative social media scene, has also called an attempted 2009 airline bombing a “false flag attack”; claimed “Satanic people run our government”; said that “all ...