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Governor Tim Walz today signed Executive Order 20-51, providing a roadmap for safely restarting elective surgeries. Starting next week, doctors, dentists, and veterinarians who create a plan to keep patients and healthcare professionals safe may begin offering these procedures, which can treat chronic conditions, prevent and cure disease, and relieve chronic pain. Executive Order 20-51 […]
The Minnesota House Agriculture and Food Finance and Policy Division today advanced additional resources to help farmers who are impacted by COVID-19, including another extension of the deadline for farmer lender mediations. Click here to read a letter from the Minnesota Farmers Union in support of the legislation voted on during today’s hearing. Lawmakers approved all legislation
On Monday, Senate Republicans shared ideas from small businesses and churches to safely reopen as Minnesota enters the third month with a stay at home order. Despite billions in federal stimulus dollars being pumped into the state, nearly 600,000 Minnesotans have filed for unemployment, and thousands of small and local businesses and churches, have closed their
Students at Washington and Highland Elementary Schools are participating in “virtual” staff appreciation week May 4-8. Below is a video shared with teachers and staff from the students. [yotuwp type=”videos” id=”vA1bb7ht0-I” ]
Late in the evening on Monday, May 4 the Grand Forks Fire Department learned that a firefighter has tested positive for COVID-19. As a result of the positive case, and the fact that this firefighter had been working at Fire Station 5 located at 1002 47th Ave S, the Fire Department made the decision to
The Minnesota Management and Budget (MMB) is releasing an updated budget projection for the current biennium, Fiscal Years 2020 and 2021. Minnesota’s budget and economic outlook has significantly worsened since the coronavirus pandemic. A deficit of $2.426 billion is now projected for the current biennium, which is almost a $4 billion change compared to the
