Tag: Minnesota Legislature
House passes recreational marijuana bill, Senate will take it up Friday
DFL party leaders and legislative candidates campaigned during the 2022 election cycle on the slogan “Minnesota is Ready” to legalize recreational marijuana. Former DFL...
GOP rep says DFL’s education agenda will start ‘a race war’
A first-term Republican legislator didn’t hold back in his criticisms of the DFL’s education agenda during a House floor session last week.
Rep. Walter Hudson,...
DFL wants to strike anti-pedophile language from state statutes
Minnesota Democrats want to remove language from the state’s Human Rights Act which clarifies that pedophilia is not included in the protected “sexual orientation"...
Gays Against Groomers to open MN chapter to fight ‘grave abuse...
An organization that fights against the “sexualization, indoctrination, and medicalization” of children is speaking out against the “freak show” in St. Paul.
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Jaimee Michell, the...
House and Senate approve 40 percent increase in state operating expenditures
Forming a commission to redesign the state flag, studying the possibility of instituting ranked choice voting in statewide elections, and signing onto a national...
Senate passes three controversial bills, including ‘trans refuge’ legislation
A few hundred people filled the halls outside of the Minnesota Senate chambers Friday morning both in support of and opposition to three polarizing...
Senate DFLer breaks ranks, joins GOP in vote to halt official...
A DFL-backed effort to officially retire the Minnesota state flag in favor of a yet-to-be determined redesign was dealt a blow late Thursday night in the state...
Kersten: Legislature is planning an ‘antiracist’ revolution in Minnesota schools
Most Minnesotans likely know that taxes and abortion are major topics of debate at the State Capitol this session. But it’s a good bet...
Senator says teachers union rep called Christians ‘the problem’
A GOP senator says he kicked Education Minnesota representatives out of his office after they expressed support for teaching kids "perverted stuff."
Sen. Nathan Wesenberg,...
Minnesota House passes ‘green shaming’ bill
The DFL-controlled Minnesota House passed an expansive, 473-page environment and natural resources bill that would increase spending in this area by $670 million while...