It was a session of modest ambitions.
After 2023 produced a record $72 billion in biennial funding, Minnesota’s legislative leaders were dampening expectations for anything resembling an encore. Tweaks and bonding seemed to be the chief items on the agenda.
Before the session started, House Speaker Melissa Hortman (DFL-Brooklyn Park) said, “The state’s borrowing bill will be the biggest order of...
History was made on Monday when a conference committee to iron out differences between the Minnesota House and Senate versions of a bill to modify residential housing tenant and landlord provisions met. For the first time it was being chaired by two Black women, one of Nigerian descent and the other Somali.
Before a bill can be sent to the...
The conference committee on a bill to modify residential housing tenant and landlord provisions reached an agreement Monday.
The proposed legislation would, among other things, protect victims of domestic and sexual violence from housing discrimination and further limit other forms of tenant discrimination.
Rep. Esther Agbaje (DFL-Mpls) and Sen. Zaynab Mohamed (DFL-Mpls) sponsor HF3591/SF3492* that would allow tenants to organize, seek...
Democrats in Minnesota’s Fifth Congressional District on Saturday endorsed U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar for reelection in an unprecedented style – it was the first time in her congressional career that she received the local party unit’s nod in the first round.
She first ran in 2018 and has won the endorsement in subsequent reelection bids, but it has required multiple...
Rwanda’s ambassador to the United States, Mathilde Mukantabana, will deliver the keynote address at the annual Books for Africa fundraising luncheon on Friday, May 10 in Roseville, Minn.
Books for Africa is the world’s largest shipper of donated books to Africa, and Ambassador Mukantabana’s address is the first major event for the organization since its 35th anniversary celebration last September.
Over...
President Yoweri Museveni of Uganda on Tuesday criticized the west and institutions such as the World Bank for having their priorities upside down when it comes to economic development in Africa.
The president was speaking at the World Bank’s International Development Association summit for African Heads of state in Nairobi.
The president was speaking at the World Bank’s International Development Association...
317,000 former students of the now defunct for-profit Art Institutes woke up Wednesday to news that President Biden has ordered the federal government to cancel $6.1 billion they owed.
“Today, my Administration is approving $6.1 billion in student debt cancellation for 317,000 borrowers who attended the Art Institutes,” Biden said in a statement.
The president in his statement said Art Institutes,...
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On Monday April 15, Brooklyn Park Mayor Hollies J. Winston and four of my colleagues at the City Council passed a resolution to censure me. By doing so, they hope that I will go away.
I won’t.
The mayor, some members of the City Council, and the city manager have tried to paint me as an out-of-control, condescending, and disrespectful council...
Since being elected to Congress in 2018 as the first African-born Member to serve, I have worked to reshape engagement with the continent within the United States. As you might expect, my deep personal connection to Africa fuels my passion for advancing more just and mutually empowering partnerships between the U.S. and Africa. So do the many constituents of...
National Small Business Week is a presidential proclamation that dates back to 1963 and this year it falls during the week of April 29 through May 3rd.
In a news release on Tuesday, the U.S. Small Business Administration said it will recognize 11 Minnesota-based small businesses and small business champions, including Minnesota’s Small Business Person of the Year, Micah Eveland...