DFL state Sen. Lindsey Port told her legislative colleagues on Monday that she's switching to work mostly remotely as she struggles with worsening — and at times dangerous — symptoms of long haul COVID. Since contracting COVID in 2020, the second-term senator from Burnsville has struggled with ongoing symptoms, including extreme fatigue and neuropathy in her hands, arms, feet and legs, which .
Carly Melin, a former chief of staff to the DFL Senate caucus, was let go and claimed it was related to who she was married to. The Senate Rules Committee has agreed to resolve the issue without agreeing to wrongdoing.
The Democratic leader of the Minnesota Senate lashed out at Republican members this week for trying to end the practice of remote voting while a DFL senator is undergoing cancer treatment. GOP state Sen. Steve Drazkowski proposed a motion to eliminate remote and proxy voting during a rules committee meeting last week. Four years after the COVID-19 pandemic began, legislators are still allowed .