Minnesota Legislature
Session Daily Archive
A compendium of Session Daily articles dating back to 2004
Results:
House lawmakers OK bill to help people retrieve property from towed vehicles
By Margaret Stevens
At a minimum, having a vehicle towed is an inconvenience. However, for people without a permanent address, losing that access could also mean losing everything they own – winter...
House passes $50 million in funding for homeless prevention program
By Tessa Pieper
What was requested initially ended up being cut in half. Still, it would help provide a roof over the head of many Minnesotans.
Originally, Rep. Michael Howard (DFL-Richfiel...
Bill would direct health department to analyze costs, benefits of universal health coverage
By Tessa Pieper
Americans pay more to die sooner.
We pay an average of $12,318 per person on health care annually, yet our life expectancy is only 76.1 years. Whereas other comparatively we...
Lawmakers hear plan to fund, provide American Indian education to all Minnesota students
By Steve Abrams
Education for and about Indigenous Minnesotans has been lackluster for years, say advocates who’ve long pushed the Legislature to make improvements in curriculum and investments...
Scholarship program proposed to address Minnesota’s persistent police staffing shortage
By Rob Hubbard
Police forces are shrinking, and Rep. Dan Wolgamott (DFL-St. Cloud) would like to do something about that.
“Our law enforcement agencies are experiencing dire workforce shor...
Committee OKs $40 million to replenish the state’s disaster contingency account ahead of spring flood season
By Tim Walker
Spring is a time of rebirth, and a time to replenish our northern souls after a long winter.
It’s also the time to replenish the state’s disaster assistance contingency acco...
Transportation panel greenlights bill that could charge developers for street improvements
By Margaret Stevens
Each new home built in a community adds an average of 10 vehicle trips per day. According to Prior Lake City Manager Jason Wedel, that could mean 66,000 new trips every single d...
Public safety panel advances bill to prohibit no-knock warrants
By Tim Walker
Andre Locke spoke from the heart about his son, Amir, to a hushed committee room Wednesday evening.
“Amir was a beautiful 22-year-old man with his whole life to be lived and...
Could environmental bill be swan song for lead sinkers in some Minnesota lakes?
By Margaret Stevens
Trumpeter swans are the protagonists in one of the most remarkable comeback stories of the animal world, going from fewer than 100 in the country in the 1930s to approximately 2...
Holocaust survivor urges lawmakers to mandate genocide studies in Minnesota classrooms
By Steve Abrams
Dora Zaidenweber is 99 years old and a survivor of the Holocaust.
Born in Poland, most of her family was wiped out by the Nazis. When she first arrived in the United States ...
Bill could help recycle landfills for use as solar sites
By Rob Hubbard
If one person’s trash is another’s treasure, then perhaps a community’s landfill could become one of its chief sources of electricity.
That’s the idea behind HF2627, sponsor...
Special state fund proposed for targeted groups to support emerging developers
By Tim Walker
Although Minnesota regularly ranks high on lists of best states to live in, there is a caveat, some say, which is that it’s not such a great a state to live in if you’re not whi...
Safety grants could help defend human services providers from workplace violence
By Tessa Pieper
Go to work. Get punched. Go to work. Get kicked. Go to work. Get assaulted.
For many human service workers, this is life on the clock. In more extreme cases, employees have ...
Local officials pitch capital investment panel on need for Duluth, St. Cloud airport projects
By Margaret Stevens
Airport safety projects landed in the House Capital Investment Committee Wednesday with a pair of informational hearings of bills proposing money for airports in Duluth and St. ...
Bill seeks $1.9 million to provide job training for people with disabilities
By Tim Walker
Every day Rep. Sydney Jordan (DFL-Mpls) drives to her job at the House, she passes the manufacturing headquarters of Minnesota Diversified Industries.
And every day she thin...
