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On Thursday, Governor Tim Walz announced that Minnesota is joining the Biden Administration’s initiative to provide $100 to all Minnesotans age 12 and older who roll up their sleeves and get their COVID-19 vaccine from July 30 through August 15. With the Delta variant pushing cases up in Minnesota and across the country, the Governor […]
As 14 Minnesota counties are facing severe drought conditions, they are being put under a primary agricultural disaster designation by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), Governor Tim Walz today signed Executive Order 21-26 waiving trucking regulations to support Minnesota livestock producers facing a significant decrease in the availability of hay and other forage. “When
Governor Tim Walz has issued a proclamation calling a special session of the Minnesota State Legislature beginning on Monday June 14, 2021 to complete the two-year state budget. On Monday, he will also sign an executive order that extends Minnesota’s peacetime emergency for 30 days to allow Minnesota to maintain vaccination sites and the eviction
In Minnesota, Community Action Agencies have worked tirelessly over the past year to meet some of the most pressing needs caused by COVID-19, including providing rental, mortgage and utility assistance, food delivery and socially-distanced food distribution events, and broadband and technology support to name a few. The Economic Opportunity Act of 1964 authorized the creation
Ahead of an expected announcement this week by Governor Walz loosening Minnesota’s COVID restrictions, Rep. Deb Kiel, R-Crookston, is calling for transparent and concrete dates and/or metrics for the end of the peacetime emergency. Just this week, Florida lifted all remaining COVID restrictions, and Governors of Democrat states like New York and California have established target dates for the lifting
Former Vice President, Presidential nominee, U.S. Senator, and Minnesota Attorney General, Walter Mondale has passed away at the age of 93. Mondale was Vice President to Jimmy Carter from 1977 to 1981, and lost a presidential bid to Ronald Reagan in 1984. Mondale was born in Ceylon, Minnesota, and graduated from the University of Minnesota in 1951 after
