Editorial Roundup:Minnesota
Minneapolis Star Tribune. April 27, 2021.
Editorial: The 2020 census: Nice job, Minnesota
It took years of planning and strong execution to save the state’s eighth seat in Congress.
Minnesota has successfully hung onto all eight of its congressional seats, thanks to a top-in-the-nation turnout for the most recent U.S. census, the decennial count of the nation’s population.
That it did so was no fluke, but the result of years of work, planning, preparation and then execution under the most difficult circumstances imaginable. Minnesota had been in serious danger of losing a congressional seat, until a broad coalition of foundations, community groups, tribal nations, corporations and strong partnership with the state demographer’s office went to work, starting as far back as 2015.
Senate GOP walks back pledge to hold fact-finding police reform hearings Republicans now say proposals will be considered in joint House-Senate committee. April 23, 2021 4:31pm Text size Copy shortlink:
Republican leaders in the Minnesota Senate have dropped plans to hold hearings next week on police accountability reforms sought by Gov. Tim Walz and Democratic legislators.
Speaking on the Senate floor late Thursday, Senate Majority Leader Paul Gazelka, R-East Gull Lake, said the GOP-led Senate will instead debate the policies in a conference committee, where a limited number of lawmakers will resolve differences between the House and Senate public safety spending bills.
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Minnesota police oversight board votes to ban white supremacists, update crowd control tactics article
Law enforcement as part of Operation Safety Net respond to a protest outside the Brooklyn Center Police Department after the police shooting of Daunte Wright.
ST. PAUL, Minn. (FOX 9) - Minnesota s police oversight board voted Thursday to take a first step toward banning officers who affiliate with white supremacy groups and imposing limits on police responding to protests.
The Minnesota Peace Officer Standards and Training Board took the unanimous votes two days after Derek Chauvin s murder conviction and on the same day Daunte Wright was laid to rest after he was killed by police in Brooklyn Center this month.
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