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Senator Goggin: CARES funds will bring relief to district

Today Governor Walz announced he would distribute the full $841 million in federal CARES funding to local entities. The distribution is according to the approved compromise legislation the Senate and House agreed to in the special…

Sen. Howe: Special Session: An Abandoned Agreement

The Senate adjourned from the special session early last Saturday morning. A week of negotiations on how best to spend federal CARES dollars, assemble a bonding bill, and pass police accountability ultimately broke down over…

Sen. Miller: Reflections on Special Session

Greetings from the District, The most recent special session was anything but special. The rhetoric, divisiveness, and political posturing reached a level that I have not seen in the Minnesota legislature. During my ten years in the…

Senate unanimously approves Sen. Nelson’s Education Policy Bill

The Minnesota state Senate Friday night unanimously approved an education policy bill that makes a number of significant improvements to the way Minnesota delivers education, including improvements for disciplining pre-kindergarten and pre-school children, support for…