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Minnesota · MinnesotaHogs in transit. Photo by Getty Images. More than 7 million gallons of manure have been improperly kept at a former southern Iowa hog confinement for nearly 10 years, according to the Iowa Department of Natural Resources. In a recent order, the DNR directed the owners of the Albia facility to dispose of the manure by the end of the year or be fined up to $5,000. The site is owned by Jeffrey and Tina Smith, of Duluth, Minnesota, who operated the …See the Story
Former swine site owners ordered to get rid of 7 million gallons of manure • Minnesota Reformer
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Gaza · GazaA Target attorney tells employees they are better off without a union in a leaked video. Screenshot. Take a seat in the Break Room, our weekly round-up of labor news in Minnesota and beyond. This week: lawsuit challenges Minnesota’s ban on ‘captive audience’ meetings; labor standards board votes on minimum wages for nursing home workers; Minnesota House passes stricter rules on misclassification; immigrant farm workers sue employer; Lakeville te…See the Story
Lawsuit challenges Minnesota’s ban on captive audience meetings — and other labor news • Minnesota Reformer
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Mental Health · MinnesotaNot where kids in crisis belong. Photo by Getty Images. Children suffering from behavioral health crisis are collectively spending hundreds to thousands of hours boarding in hospital emergency departments. A bill (HR4779) sponsored by Rep. Kim Hicks, DFL-Rochester, would allow Medical Assistance — the Minnesota version of Medicaid, a public health insurance program for people with disabilities and the indigent — to be used for children to get t…See the Story
Let's get kids in mental health crisis out of hospital emergency departments • Minnesota Reformer
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U.S. SenateTwo Democratic U.S. senators announced Thursday they plan to introduce legislation that would require large companies to disclose quota practices to workers and prevent those quotas from threatening a worker’s health. “The Warehouse Worker Protection Act would put an end to the most dangerous quotas that plague warehouses,” Democratic Sen. Ed Markey of Massachusetts, a sponsor of the bill, said. There is no published bill text yet. Markey said t…See the Story
U.S. Senate Democrats to push warehouse worker safety bill - Maryland Matters
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Abortion · MinnesotaGetty Images. Two-thirds of Minnesotans say abortion should be legal in most or all cases, according to the latest public opinion data from the Public Religion Research Institute, a nonpartisan pollster. The survey shows 26% of Minnesotans say abortion should be legal in all cases, with an additional 41% saying it should be legal in most cases. Twenty-four percent say it should be illegal in most cases, with just 6% saying it should always be il…See the Story
Two-thirds of Minnesotans say abortion should be legal in 'all' or 'most' cases • Minnesota Reformer
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U.S. SenateTim Blakeley, manager of Sunset Junction medical marijuana dispensary, shows marijuana plant buds on May 11, 2010 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images)Quality Journalism for Critical Times Leading U.S. Senate Democrats reintroduced a bill Wednesday to remove marijuana from the list of federal controlled substances, following the Biden administration’s move a day earlier to significantly ease regulations on the dru…See the Story
U.S. Senate Dems launch renewed push for full marijuana legalization • Florida Phoenix
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UnitedHealth · MinnesotaUnitedHealth CEO Andrew Witty testified before the U.S. Senate Finance Committee on Wednesday, May 1, 2024, about a cyberattack on Change Healthcare, a subsidiary. Screenshot from committee webcast.
I hope Minnesotans read about the testimony of UnitedHealth Group CEO Andrew Witty at the U.S. Senate Committee on Finance Wednesday. It’s an eye-opener about the corporate practices of our Eden Prairie health insurance/big data/whatever behemoth. W…See the Story
Senators are right to scrutinize UnitedHealth, Minnesota's most powerful company • Minnesota Reformer
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Pandemic · MinnesotaThe Feeding Our Future trial is being held at the Diane E. Murphy United States Courthouse in downtown Minneapolis. Photo by Max Nesterak/Minnesota Reformer.FBI Special Agent Jared Kary heard a park in Circle Pines was closed due to construction, and yet people were getting reimbursed by the federal government after claiming to serve meals to 2,000 children per day there. The FBI investigation would grow into a sprawling $250 million fraud case…See the Story
Park where thousands of meals were purportedly given away during the pandemic was closed. • Minnesota Reformer
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