Tag: Minnesota House
Edina DFLer says she won’t seek fourth term in state House
A three-term DFL legislator from Edina announced this week that she won’t seek a new term in 2024, nearly six months before the candidate endorsement process...
Three candidates enter race to fill Rep. Ruth Richardson’s seat
Minnesota Rep. Ruth Richardson’s successor must be sworn in before the start of the next legislative session in February, according to the Secretary of...
Wolgamott cited in 2021 for abandoning vehicle after crash
State Rep. Dan Wolgamott, who was arrested last week on suspicion of driving drunk, was cited in 2021 when he abandoned his vehicle after...
Democrats on state House committee vote themselves a per diem pay...
The 2023 Minnesota legislative session wrapped up about three weeks ago, but that doesn’t mean lawmakers have stopped working.
Democrats in a state House legislative...
House passes red-flag, universal background check proposals
The Minnesota House passed an omnibus judiciary and public safety bill Wednesday that contains two controversial gun-control measures.
The Senate version of the omnibus bill,...
Minnesota House passes higher ed funding increase amid enrollment decline
(The Center Square) — The Minnesota House of Representatives on Thursday passed a record increase in investment for the state’s colleges and universities amid...
GOP state rep slams Minnesota’s ‘trans refuge’ bill
(The Washington Free Beacon) — State representative Walter Hudson (R.) slammed Minnesota's "trans refuge" bill — which allows children from other states to get...
DFLer carrying ranked choice voting bill ‘confident’ he’ll get GOP support,...
A Democrat lawmaker carrying a bill that would make Minnesota only the third state in the nation to adopt statewide ranked choice voting in its elections said...
Biological male named Minnesota’s ‘Woman of the Year’
USA Today named Rep. Leigh Finke, a biological male who identifies as a woman, Minnesota’s “Woman of the Year” over the weekend.
“I have a...
DFL bill replaces ‘woman’ and ‘mother’ with ‘pregnant person’
A DFL bill making its way through the Minnesota Legislature would replace the words “woman” and “mother” with the term “pregnant person” in some...