Aurora win. Frost win. Timberwolves lose.
Twins host KC this weekend.
Former Minnesota First Lady Lola Perpich has died at 94. STRIB: https://fluence-media.co/4kwzb32
The Trump Administration has banned Harvard from recruiting international students unless it complies with their demands. AP: https://fluence-media.co/3ShQ9Gn
Sunday, May 25 marks five years since George Floyd was killed in Minneapolis. STRIB: https://fluence-media.co/4k5RXyC
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MPD: via FOX 9, VERBATIM: “Five years after the video of George Floyd’s murder sparked international outrage, two Minneapolis police chiefs are addressing efforts to rewrite history. In recent interviews with FOX 9, former police chief Medaria Arradondo called the ‘revisionist history’ of what happened to Floyd ‘dangerous.’ Brian O’Hara, who succeeded Arradondo, said ‘everyone knew what they saw’ when they watched the video of Floyd’s murder. … O’Hara and Arradondo also reflected on leading a depleted department in the aftermath of Floyd’s murder, which included riots, calls to defund the police and a drastic reduction of officers.” READ/WATCH: https://fluence-media.co/3YWBC6M
BODYCAMS: via MinnPost, VERBATIM: “A rarity even a decade ago, body cams are becoming more of a rule than an exception in Minnesota police departments. … Body camera adoption by police departments has taken off over the past five years, said Jeff Potts, executive director of the Minnesota Chiefs of Police Association (MCPA). An MCPA survey conducted in 2021 found that more than 100 police chiefs reported using them. … More than 80% of respondents said they supported using body cams in 2021, nearly double the percentage from an earlier [2016] survey.” READ: https://fluence-media.co/43uI3j2
DATA CENTERS: via Star Tribune, VERBATIM: “Amazon says it has suspended plans for a massive data center in Becker, an announcement that comes after state lawmakers and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz said they will reduce tax breaks for these projects. … Sen. Andrew Mathews, a Republican from Princeton who represents the Becker area, said Walz had ‘rolled out the red carpet for Amazon early in session’ and promised to get the project done, but that he and some DFLers in the Legislature then did ‘nothing but try to stonewall and prolong’ the regulatory process. … [However], Amazon hasn’t ruled out revisiting the project. It plans to keep 348 acres of land that it purchased in Becker. … Developers have proposed at least 10 other [data centers].” READ: https://fluence-media.co/4duUBv3
CANNABIS: via MPR, VERBATIM: ”Anoka is among 13 cities and counties in Minnesota that have applied for a license to operate a cannabis store. City liquor and cannabis operations manager Kevin Morelli says they’re waiting on the state’s Office of Cannabis Management to approve their license. MORELLI: “We might be waiting around for it, but at least we'll be ready to go, and we’ll have that in hand, and we can hit the ground running,” he said…According to Morelli, Anoka appears to be the first municipality to start building out a space for a dispensary so far in Minnesota. Other cities, like St. Joseph and Osseo, want to secure the license before construction… The Office of Cannabis Management says municipalities are guaranteed a license as long as they fulfill requirements for the license application. The deadline to apply for a municipal license was March 16…The agency has 90 days to approve or deny an application after final documentation is submitted, including local government approval…Office spokesperson Josh Collins says the agency expects to start seeing businesses, including municipal cannabis dispensaries, open up this summer.” READ: https://fluence-media.co/3Fkmhq8
AGENCIES: via KSTP, VERBATIM: “As more than five million gallons of potentially toxic coal ash wastewater spilled from a power plant in northern Minnesota last summer, state regulators scrambled to address the crisis. … But the state agency that oversees water quality – the Minnesota Department of Health – wasn’t even aware of the spill, according to internal emails obtained by 5 INVESTIGATES. ‘MDH is hearing about these incidents from the media which is not ideal,’ wrote a health department manager to leaders at Minnesota Pollution Control Agency, or MPCA. That manager went on to sound the alarm [about] the lack of coordination between the agencies.” READ/WATCH: https://fluence-media.co/3FvdC3Y
WILDFIRES: via MPR News, VERBATIM: “After a nearly two-week long battle, firefighting crews are now making rapid progress containing two wildfires still burning in northern Minnesota. The Camp House Fire, which destroyed about 150 structures including dozens of homes and cabins near Brimson, is now 90 percent contained. … Meanwhile, the larger Jenkins Creek Fire, burning in more remote country east of Hoyt Lakes, is now 32 percent contained. Officials say the southern edge of that fire is now considered secure. … Combined, the fires have burned about 45 square miles of forest.” READ: https://fluence-media.co/45kAVYP
NEGOTIATIONS: via House Session Daily, VERBATIM: “Lawmakers are nearing the completion of bills left over from the regular legislative session that ended Monday. In an update Thursday, House Speaker Lisa Demuth (R-Cold Spring) and Speaker Emerita Melissa Hortman (DFL-Brooklyn Park) said they’ve been meeting with working groups to receive updates on agreements on bills. House and Senate members are working to get everything wrapped up as soon as possible, Demuth said. … Earlier Thursday, Senate Majority Leader Erin Murphy (DFL-St. Paul) said she hopes the working groups can wrap up their work before the weekend. … Ideally the working groups would be done by the end of the day Friday, Hortman said, but if the taxes working group continues at its current pace the tax bill won’t be wrapped up by Friday. If working groups aren’t finished, Demuth said they expect them to work this weekend until the agreements are completed.” READ: https://fluence-media.co/3H1Bc9c
TRANSPARENCY: Via MPR News, legislative working groups held public meetings Thursday following backlash earlier this week from government transparency advocates. VERBATIM: “Pieces of the remaining bills started to surface on Thursday, with legislative groups meeting publicly for the first time to show their work. A human services committee was set to unveil its agreement Thursday afternoon and a jobs and economic development panel planned to present its budget Thursday evening. An education policy working group made public its proposed changes for public preschool through high school programs. But it didn’t have its funding plan completed as of Thursday afternoon.” READ: https://fluence-media.co/3YWq5Vc
MORE: via MinnPost, VERBATIM: “In 1990, the Minnesota Legislature passed a bill making their body exempt from the Minnesota Open Meeting Law. … Lawmakers are only subject to the open meeting statute ‘when a quorum is present and action is taken.’ … The key phrase here is ‘action is taken,’ said Don Gemberling, spokesperson for the Minnesota Coalition on Government Information, and action means whether lawmakers vote on something.” GEMBERLING: “They will vote in the open meeting for what they already decided in the closed meeting.” READ: https://fluence-media.co/3Had0kR
BUDGET: Speaking to reporters, House DFL Leader Melissa Hortman gave updates yesterday on each outstanding budget bill. Via House Session Daily, VERBATIM:
“The education working group met Thursday and the agreement is progressing, although there’s some tension between the House and Senate members;
Work on the children and families budget is close to completion;
The human services working group is done except for some details and plans to meet Friday to sign an agreement;
The environment working group is working on agreement language;
The jobs and labor working group is done on everything except the issue of non-compete agreements and is meeting Thursday evening; and,
The transportation working group is currently focused on nailing down details.” READ: https://fluence-media.co/3H1Bc9c
MEDICAID SUPPORTS HEALTH CARE FOR ALL OF US: Medicaid keeps Minnesota’s hospitals strong and ensures communities across the state have access to care. Policymakers must protect Medicaid so every Minnesotan — regardless of income or health status — can get the care they need, when they need it. LEARN MORE: https://fluence-media.co/3FtrCuH (SPONSORED: Minnesota Hospital Association)
OIG: Via WCCO-TV’s Caroline Cummings, House DFL Leader Melissa Hortman told reporters that a bipartisan effort to establish a new Office of Inspector General is “dead” for the 2025 session due to insufficient finances in the current budget framework. Certain other anti-fraud measures will still be included in the state government finance omnibus. TWEETS: https://fluence-media.co/43rTHuH
CAPITOL: via MPR, VERBATIM: “The state government finance bill that awaits action by Gov. Tim Walz after legislative approval would allocate $3 million to the Ramsey County Sheriff’s Office to ‘implement a coordinated public safety and livability plan in the Capitol area.’ It will be developed in partnership with state entities and deal mostly in areas in the vicinity of the Capitol. State-owned or leased buildings are not included in the sheriff’s jurisdiction, but the effort will focus on ‘public safety, youth and family programming and state and neighborhood cleanup and ambassadors’ in the Capitol neighborhood.” READ: https://fluence-media.co/43oEMS3
SIGNED: via Office of the Governor, VERBATIM: “Governor Tim Walz today signed four bipartisan bills into law. … House File 1143 appropriates $100 million to the school unemployment insurance aid account. … In response to the accident in St. Louis Park that left two people dead and dozens injured, Governor Walz signed Chapter 29, House File 2130, which extends the length of driver’s license revocations for individuals with prior driving under the influence incidents. … House File 1290 allows for the establishment of Automatic External Defibrillator signs on public roads. … House File 3228 updates and clarifies Minnesota’s workers’ compensation laws.”
Thank You Lawmakers For Listening to Minnesotans and Funding Reinsurance without Raising Taxes on Essential Safety-Net Coverage: Now that lawmakers have come together on a bipartisan framework to fund state government that includes funding for the state’s individual healthcare market, it’s critical that lawmakers stand firm in their agreement to not create a new Minnesota Insurance Coverage Tax. Non-medical safety-net insurance products aren't a luxury. It’s coverage that provides critical protection for families during some of life’s most difficult and unpredictable moments. In the upcoming special session, please continue to stand with Minnesota families, small businesses, and seniors to ensure coverage remains accessible to those that need it most. Learn More: ProtectOurCoverage.com (SPONSORED: Minnesota Insurance and Financial Services Council)
CONGRESS: via Star Tribune, VERBATIM: “Changes to Medicaid, including a stringent work requirement, are key to the massive domestic policy bill the U.S. House passed early Thursday morning — and they have many Minnesotans worried. … Minnesota’s Department of Human Services published an analysis of federal Medicaid cuts Wednesday [that] estimates up to 253,000 Minnesotans could lose coverage. It also said new hurdles…would bury front-line workers and enrollees in paperwork and red tape. The analysis, which did not account for last-minute tweaks to the bill, estimated the state would lose $500 million annually. … But work on [the] bill isn’t over. Next it heads to the Senate, where some Republican members have opposed major Medicaid cuts.” READ: https://fluence-media.co/4kwpyBl
MORE: via WCCO Radio, VERBATIM: “House Republicans passed the massive tax breaks and spending program cuts in an all-night session with a narrow, one-vote margin. If the bill were to pass through the Senate, it would have devastating consequences, says MNSure's Chief Executive Officer Libby Caulum. … Over 140,000 Minnesotans get their insurance through MNSure.” CAULUM: “We estimate that over 62,000 Minnesotans could lose their private health insurance coverage. On average, these consumers will see a premium increase of about $180 every month.” READ/LISTEN: https://fluence-media.co/3H1Gsts
REACTIONS: Minnesota officials shared divided responses to the House passage of Pres. Donald Trump’s budget bill. The state’s eight representatives voted on party lines.
Via a GOP Rep. Brad Finstad statement, FINSTAD: “Not only does this once-in-a-generation legislation prevent the largest tax hike in our country’s history, it delivers what the American people voted for: a secure border, national security, energy dominance, and an end to government waste, fraud, and abuse.”
Via a DFL Rep. Betty McCollum statement, McCOLLUM: “The ugly truth of Donald Trump’s ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ is that it strips away healthcare from 20,000 Minnesotans with disabilities, seniors, children, and working parents in Minnesota’s 4th Congressional District – that’s the equivalent of every resident of Stillwater losing their healthcare overnight. … Under this legislation, the average family earning less than $50,000 would get under $300 in tax cuts in 2027, [but] a wealthy tax filer earning $1,000,000 or more a year would receive about $90,000.”
Via a GOP Rep. Tom Emmer statement, EMMER: “House Republicans have delivered historic America First policy wins for the American people. Not only does our One Big Beautiful Bill include the largest reduction in mandatory spending in history and bring out-of-control government programs to account, it also allows President Trump to continue his essential border security and deportation operations and creates a pro-growth tax code.”
Via a DFL Rep. Ilhan Omar statement, OMAR: “The GOP budget bill is a win for billionaires at the expense of working people. … It is the largest transfer of wealth from the poor to the rich in U.S. history and includes the largest cuts to Medicaid and SNAP we have ever seen. My Republican colleagues will tell you that they are just going after waste, fraud, and abuse. But let’s be clear: the only way to slash safety net spending is by making it harder for people to survive.”
Via a GOP Rep. Michelle Fischbach statement, FISCHBACH: “I am immensely proud of the work my colleagues and I have done on the Ways & Means and Rules Committees to ensure we develop a bill that provides vital relief for farmers, families, and small businesses. … Anyone who voted against this bill is not listening to what the American people are telling Congress they need.”
EDUCATION: via Office of the Atty. General, VERBATIM: “Attorney General Keith Ellison today won a court order stopping the Trump Administration’s attempts to dismantle the Department of Education (ED). On March 13, Attorney General Ellison joined a coalition of 20 other attorneys general in suing the administration after it announced plans to eliminate 50% of ED’s workforce. … Today, the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts granted the preliminary injunction, halting the administration’s policies that would dismantle ED and ordering all employees who were fired as part of the layoffs to be reinstated.” READ: https://fluence-media.co/4mktK98
BETTING POLL: Support is surging among Minnesotans who want legal wagering on sporting events. New polling by the Sports Betting Alliance of Minnesota indicates 60% of voters in the state support the legalization of sports betting. The survey of 1,000 Minnesota voters also revealed overwhelming support for legal wagering among 18–29-year-olds, with 75% of females and 73% of males in favor of allowing sports betting in Minnesota — something that is available in 39 states. LEARN MORE: https://fluence-media.co/49uj4OF (SPONSORED: Sports Betting Alliance)
FEED FRAUD: via MPR News, VERBATIM: “The Feeding Our Future meal fraud investigation is expanding. Federal agents on Thursday searched the offices of the New Vision Foundation, a St. Paul nonprofit allegedly connected to a sprawling scheme to steal hundreds of millions of dollars from two taxpayer-funded nutrition programs for children in need during the pandemic. Agents were seen removing computers and other items from NVF’s Vandalia St. offices early Thursday afternoon. … In a search warrant, FBI Special Agent Travis Wilmer writes that NVF operated two phony meal distribution sites under the sponsorship of the defunct nonprofit Feeding Our Future.” READ: https://fluence-media.co/3ZwIkk1
IT’S POSSIBLE TO SIMULTANEOUSLY UPHOLD ENVIRONMENTAL INTEGRITY AND GROW OUR ECONOMY: Minnesota’s lengthy and uncertain permitting process has frustrated businesses for decades. A recent report found that air permitting in Minnesota can take up to six times longer than comparable states. A coalition of business and labor groups are advocating for reform that will shorten timelines and increase certainty while maintaining our strong environmental standards. Contact your legislators and tell them to support streamlining the permitting process. CONTACT: https://fluence-media.co/3Ea5Tbe (SPONSORED: Minnesota Chamber of Commerce)
FED FUNDS: via Rochester Post Bulletin, VERBATIM: “The National Institutes of Health has canceled two more Mayo Clinic research grants, along with multiple University of Minnesota grants, according to data released by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. There are now three Mayo Clinic research grants that have been terminated under the Trump Administration. … One recently canceled grant provided funding to a doctoral student at the Minnesota Population Center, [according to] Theresa Osypuk, the center's director and a UMN professor of epidemiology and community health. … The center is appealing the grant's termination.” READ: https://fluence-media.co/3ZyHJOP
MORE: via MPR News, VERBATIM: “Six billboards that popped up in Duluth earlier this month that read ‘Greetings from Voyageurs National Park’ [criticize] the Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, for budget cuts it made to the National Park Service earlier this year. The billboards were put up by the group More Perfect Union, a liberal advocacy group.” READ: https://fluence-media.co/4kjvw8Y
NURSES: via an MNA press release, VERBATIM: “More than 15,000 nurses in Minnesota today announced their intent to hold an informational picket at hospitals across the state on Wednesday, June 4, 2025. … The Minnesota Nurses Association is sending notices of the planned picket to hospitals this Friday, May 23, in accordance with legal requirements. This is ahead of contract expirations. … The June 4 informational picket is not a strike or work stoppage. All nurses participating will do so outside of working hours, and hospital operations will not be interrupted.”
MAYO: via Rochester Post Bulletin, VERBATIM: “Gov. Tim Walz lauded the vitality of Rochester and Mayo Clinic to hundreds of community leaders gathered for a luncheon to mark the 10-year milestone of the 20-year-long Destination Medical Center initiative. … Former Gov. Mark Dayton, another retiree who helped shepherd the DMC initiative, described the massive economic development project as a memorable success of his administration. He said it was an easy vision to support. … [Walz’s] speech wrapped up the event.” WALZ: “Everybody wants this. I hear that everywhere I go, especially with governors, when I'm talking about what you have in Rochester. They're always like, ‘Oh, I wish we had that.’ It’s an incredible engine. … As goes Rochester, so goes Minnesota. And I would argue, as goes Minnesota, goes the Upper Midwest.” READ: https://fluence-media.co/3H6szKx
SUPPORT SF 2929 AND HF 2677: Third-party lawsuit funding (TPLF) — or “lawsuit lending” — is a growing and extremely concerning trend in courts across the state and throughout the country that encourages frivolous lawsuits and threatens to drive up the costs of products, services, and insurance for Minnesota consumers. Fortunately, lawmakers are considering legislation — the Consumers in Crisis Protection Act (SF 2929 & HF 2677) — to increase transparency around this highly secretive practice and reasonably regulate third-party lawsuit funders to protect consumers and help keep premiums low. MORE INFO: https://fluence-media.co/4jivOfT (SPONSORED: ASPCIA)
PRISON: via MPR News, VERBATIM: “The Minnesota state Legislature passed a bill this year that will close the Minnesota Department of Corrections Facility in Stillwater by 2029. Nearly 1,200 inmates are housed there. T.O.N.E. U.P. Inc., an organization that helps people leaving incarceration, said they want a current inmate and former inmate-led coalition to be established as part of the transition planning. … At a news conference, [advocates] had several demands of the transition, including a commitment from the Minnesota Department of Corrections that closing Stillwater will not lead to the construction of any new prisons. They also want transition safety protocols.” READ: https://fluence-media.co/4mvb72s
PUSH BACK AGAINST TAX BREAKS FOR BIG TECH DATA CENTERS: Our tax money should be going to essential services for Minnesotans, like education, health care, and infrastructure — not subsidies for billionaire owned data centers. The current tax credit has already cost our state an estimated $5 million a year since 2011. In 2025 it will be over $100 million. It’s time to stop these skyrocketing numbers. Tell your legislators, ‘No big tax breaks for Big Tech.’ LEARN MORE: https://fluence-media.co/3ErmQh8 (SPONSORED: Minnesota Center for Environmental Advocacy)
WATER: via a DEED press release, VERBATIM: “The Minnesota Public Facility Authority (MPFA) today announced more than $44.2 million in loans and grants to 15 wastewater and drinking water infrastructure projects throughout the state. … Funding for these projects primarily comes from the MPFA's Clean Water Revolving Fund (CWRF) and the Drinking Water Revolving Fund (DWRF). … Funding details for each project are available on the MPFA website.” LIST: https://fluence-media.co/4k6oCns
MEDIA: via MinnPost, VERBATIM: “When Charlie Rybak co-founded Minneapolis Voices in 2021, the organization focused on quality hyperlocal journalism for the city. It was also trying to fix a broken system: advertising. … But they didn’t buy in. On May 12, Rybak announced a ‘reset’ at Minneapolis Voices and its two free digital-only publications, Southwest Voices and Downtown Voices. Melody Hoffmann, SV’s founding editor, and Brianna Kelly, DV’s founding editor, were laid off. … Rybak hopes Minneapolis Voices will continue in some form. A few options are in the works, from being acquired by another media company to becoming a nonprofit.” READ: https://fluence-media.co/4dxwxrx
FREE AND LOW-COST FAMILY FUN: The beloved Flint Hills Family Festival is celebrating 25 years in downtown Saint Paul, May 30-31. This year’s festival, presented by the Ordway and Flint Hills Resources, welcomes outstanding headliners, including Grammy winners Lucky Diaz and the Family Jam Band and Ada Twist, Scientist, as well as the returning NOOMA, an Opera for Babies. Bring kids of all ages to enjoy free outdoor entertainment and activities, visit food trucks and take in an indoor show where tickets start at just $8. GET TICKETS: https://fluence-media.co/FHFestival (SPONSORED: Flint Hills Resources)
MPLS: via WCCO Radio, VERBATIM: “Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey is responding for the first time to Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O'Hara's ‘bizarre ideology’ jab at Minneapolis' politics during an interview with the New York Post last week. … Frey tells WCCO [that] he didn't think the comment was directed at him.” FREY: “Here's how I took it — that occasionally politics, and specifically more extreme politics, gets in the way of just reasoned common sense decision making. And if that's what he meant by it, I agree. … I think what the chief was talking about was the general leadership of the political class in the city.” READ/LISTEN: https://fluence-media.co/4dsS58G
MORE: via Star Tribune, VERBATIM: “Several nonprofits are competing to redevelop the ‘People’s Way,’ a defunct Speedway gas station that serves as the protest headquarters of George Floyd Square. Whoever is chosen will exert tremendous influence over the direction of the entire fractious intersection, which is still viewed worldwide as a barometer of how much Minneapolis has healed from the events of 2020. … Elected officials remain at loggerheads over the street design, and competing visions have emerged within the activist community that still gathers there daily.” READ: https://fluence-media.co/43bSpp5
ST PAUL: via Pioneer Press, VERBATIM: “In downtown St. Paul, vandals sneaked into the shuttered Alliance Bank Center last weekend and trashed an entire floor by emptying fire extinguishers, throwing around appliances and damaging other property, according to St. Paul Police and the mayor’s office. Police were called to the vacant 16-story office building Sunday on reports people had been accessing the condemned structure, according to a written statement from the mayor’s office. Officers discovered extensive damage throughout a single floor, which was empty of commercial tenants.” READ: https://fluence-media.co/3F45BTK
WORTHINGTON: via Star Tribune, VERBATIM: “Workers at the JBS pork plant in Worthington, Minn., bargained for access to pensions, raises and increased safety protections as part of a national contract the union reached with the world’s largest meat producer this week. The deal, which covers 26,000 workers at 14 plants belonging to the U.S. subsidiary of Brazil-based JBS, creates the first pension a meatpacking employer has offered since 1986.” READ: https://fluence-media.co/4mvcQEY
BURNSVILLE: via Pioneer Press, VERBATIM: “Burnsville [hosted] a groundbreaking ceremony Thursday evening as it embarks on a three-year, multimillion-dollar renovation project to address its police and city hall needs for the next 30 years. The Police City Hall renovation project, which will cost an estimated $98.5 million, will modernize the existing facility…and more than double its square footage to allow for more efficient operations, training and enhanced security, said Burnsville Parks, Recreation and Facilities Director Garrett Beck. … A growing police force, the hiring of a training sergeant, establishing a behavioral health unit, hiring social workers and more collaboration with the fire department to address mental health calls have all added to the need for additional space, Beck said.” READ: https://fluence-media.co/3Fs10KX
MOORHEAD: via FOX 9, VERBATIM: “A new cannabis retail shop in Moorhead, the first to open off reservation land, could be up and running as soon as this weekend, White Earth officials [said]. … The location is one of two off-reservation sites set to open in Minnesota. A new compact made it possible for tribes to open up off reservation.” READ/WATCH: https://fluence-media.co/3YWBvIo
TODAY: Governor Tim Walz will attend a George Floyd Day of Remembrance event, sign a bill to increase pensions for Minnesota teachers, police officers, and firefighters, and chair a meeting of the Minnesota Executive Council.
TODAY: via a Sen. Amy Klobuchar press release, VERBATIM: “Today, U.S. Senator Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) will travel to Ottawa, Canada as a part of a bipartisan delegation with Senators [including] Kevin Cramer (R-ND). … While in Ottawa, the Senators will meet with Prime Minister Mark Carney, Foreign Minister Anita Anand, Minister of National Defense David McGuinty, Minister of Industry Mélanie Joly, the Business Council of Canada, and other leading Canadian companies and business groups.”
MAY 31: Attorney General Keith Ellison announced he will host a community forum in Worthington on Saturday, May 31 at 11:30 a.m. Per a release, Ellison will discuss his efforts “to protect Minnesotans from federal attacks on citizenship, privacy, funding, immigration, LGBTQ+ rights, and more.”
MAY 31: Rep. Betty McCollum announced she will host a “Medicaid Town Hall” in Stillwater on Saturday, May 31 at 11:00 a.m. Per a release, McCollum will join “a panel of special guests to discuss the importance of Medicaid for Minnesota seniors, children, and working parents.”
JUNE 13: The MN DFL announced its annual Humphrey-Mondale Dinner will be held on Friday, June 13 with Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker as the keynote speaker. DETAILS: https://fluence-media.co/4iiEa5R
JUNE 14: Sen. Amy Klobuchar will be the keynote speaker at a New Hampshire Democratic Party dinner on June 14. She is reportedly traveling to support Chris Pappas’ Senate campaign. DETAILS: https://fluence-media.co/3HiY83C
JULY 12: Gov. Tim Walz will be the keynote speaker at the South Dakota Democratic Party’s annual McGovern Day dinner on July 12 in Sioux Falls, SD.
BDAYS: multimedia racquet enthusiast Dan Edwards, chicken whisperer Dan Wolter, MPR’s Brian Bakst, City of St. Paul’s Russ Stark, retired lobbyist Susan Turbes SAT: lobbyist Amanda Duerr; Fox 9’s Rob Olson, Famous Dave Anderson, fmr. Brooklyn Center Mayor Mike Elliott, Eden Prairie Hockey Coach Lincoln Nguyen, St. Paul booster Joe Spencer SUN: legislative insider Tim Commers, car guy Steve Whitaker, journalist Kryssy Pease, Rep. Paul Novotny MON: Speaker Emeritus Melissa Hortman, Delta’s Jeff Davidman, the one and only Don Shelby, lobbyist Jon Tollefson
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