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WEB4 days ago · BY: Max Nesterak - October 3, 2024. Evergreen Acres Dairy will pay $250,000 in back wages and make repairs to its worker housing to settle a lawsuit brought by Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison, who alleged the dairy’s owners underpaid hundreds of workers while charging them for squalid, cockroach-infested housing.
Why it matters that Gov. Tim Walz was a geography teacher
WEBAug 28, 2024 · Whether or not you agree with Walz’s politics, the fact that he was a geography teacher is important because it means he could bring this perspective into the White House. His geographic outlook is different from those before him, who were often trained in law, politics, business and economics. As …
In Minnesota, Xcel Energy looks to mimic power plant with solar …
WEBAug 28, 2024 · Xcel Energy is proposing a new approach to powering the grid in Minnesota. The utility recently told state regulators it wants to build a network of solar-powered energy storage hubs, located strategically on its grid and linked with technology so they can be operated in concert with each other. The result would be what’s known […]
Attorney general, lawmakers announce agenda to address …
WEBFeb 26, 2024 · Minnesota could more easily rein in corporate power if lawmakers pass a series of reforms to the state’s antitrust laws, Attorney General Keith Ellison said Monday. Ellison and some Democratic-Farmer-Labor lawmakers are advocating for policies that would grant the attorney general’s office more leeway to punish large corporations that use their market share to artificially […]
Here’s what you need to know about your rebate check, other …
WEBJul 11, 2023 · The Legislature passed multiple measures this year to give money back to Minnesotans, the first of which is set to go out in a few months. The Department of Revenue provided an update this week with some key details. Lawmakers passed a broad tax rebate for most filers; a new child tax credit and expanded […]
Here’s how much you need to make to live in Minnesota
WEBFeb 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 year — or about $28 an hour each. That’s according to the Economic Policy Institute’s ...
MyPillow is getting evicted from a warehouse, but Lindell says it's …
WEBMar 26, 2024 · MyPillow is getting evicted from one of two Shakopee warehouses it leases, but CEO Mike Lindell told the Reformer that the building has been sitting empty since last fall.. The company’s main manufacturing warehouse — about a mile away — is where all of the Minnesota company’s products are made, including the famous foam-filled pillow, as well as bath towels, slippers, coffee and ...
Today is Primary Election day in Minnesota. Here’s how to vote.
WEBAug 13, 2024 · Government & Politics. Today is Primary Election day in Minnesota. Here’s how to vote. By: Michelle Griffith - August 13, 2024 5:00 am. A vote here sign at a polling place in Hugo in November 2020. Photo by Max Nesterak/Minnesota Reformer. Minnesota voters will head to the polls on Tuesday to cast their ballots in the primary election.
A straightforward explanation and defense of the new state flag …
WEBMar 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.
Aimee Bock’s ‘right hand man’ says everyone at Feeding Our …
WEBMay 8, 2024 · A former Feeding Our Future employee who described himself as Executive Director Aimee Bock’s “right hand man” testified Wednesday about how he participated in a massive fraud, setting up sham nonprofits and consulting companies and taking kickbacks to help others get millions in federal funds. Some of …