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Conservative political motion committee Right Now Minnesota faces questions on the way it’s spending donors’ money

Welcome to the Glean, MinnPost’s twice-daily roundup of Minnesota news. Ryan Faircloth and Briana Bierschbach on the Star Tribune report a conservative political motion committee (PAC) in Minnesota, Right Now Minnesota, spent zero dollars to assist elect Republican candidates last...

Minneapolis City Council votes to send Third Precinct location proposal back to committee

Century Plaza MinnPost photo by Kyle Stokes Welcome to the Glean, MinnPost’s twice-daily roundup of Minnesota news. Samantha Fischer and Morgan Wolfe at KARE-11 report just days after the Minneapolis City Council voted to approve plans to maneuver the police department’s First...

St. Paul school board votes to livestream audio of its committee meetings

The St. Paul school board will begin livestreaming audio of its committee meetings starting in January. The board members voted unanimously at their Tuesday night meeting to livestream the audio of the committee meetings, that are held in a smaller...

Committee seeks to place St. Paul early learning grants on November ballot

A city-driven committee composed of two dozen educators and community advocates has asked the St. Paul City Council to place a matter on the November ballot that might cover the fee of childcare and early learning programs for low-income...

MN Senate committee probes allegations of toxic workplace at veterans home

Lawmakers on the Minnesota Senate veterans committee heard dramatically different views during a Tuesday evening oversight hearing of whether there's a toxic workplace culture on the Minnesota Veterans Home in Hastings and if there's enough being done to deal...

MN state lawmakers urge slowdown in first committee hearing on proposed Fairview/Sanford merger

Key state lawmakers joined Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison in encouraging leaders of Fairview Health Services and Sanford Health to ditch a scheduled March 31 merger date for the 2 nonprofit health entities, which operate greater than 58 hospitals...

One other Republican refuses to ban Omar from Foreign Affairs Committee

Rep. Ilhan Omar REUTERS/Elizabeth Frantz Welcome to the Glean, MinnPost’s twice-daily roundup of Minnesota news. At Axios Sareen Habeshian and Andrew Solender say, “Rep. Ken Buck, R-Colorado, on Friday joined a bunch of House Republicans against kicking Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minnesota, off...

D.C. Memo: GOP House members, including George Santos, get committee jobs

Republican House committee assignments got to Rep. George Santos. REUTERS/Evelyn Hockstein The D.C. Memo is a weekly recap of Washington political news, journalism, and opinion, delivered with a watch toward what matters for Minnesota. Enroll to get it in your inbox...

St. Paul City Council creates reparations committee

Following months of labor by a city committee, the St. Paul City Council voted 7-0 on Wednesday to ascertain the St. Paul Recovery Act Community Reparations Commission, an 11-member commission dedicated to the query of racial reparations. The ordinance, sponsored...

Committee recommends developer for St. Paul’s Hamm’s Brewery indoor marketplace, reasonably priced housing

On St. Paul’s East Side, the five-acre, city-owned portion of the storied Hamm’s Brewery complex will soon be within the hands of a St. Paul-based developer who intends to construct a mixture of economic space and greater than 250...
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St. Paul prevails in legal fight to raze, replace historic Hamline-Midway Library

Following 16 months of litigation, a Ramsey County district judge has given the town of St. Paul the go-ahead...
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St. Paul-based Securian Financial lays off 58 employees across departments

Securian Financial has notified 58 employees — roughly 2% of its total workforce — that their roles with the corporate are being eliminated in...

U.S. Rep. Betty McCollum seeks thirteenth term in rematch with May Lor Xiong in 4th District

Longtime St. Paul Democratic U.S. Rep. Betty McCollum is in search of one other term in Minnesota’s Fourth Congressional District and again faces May...

Believed to have been the oldest working nurse in Minnesota, Joyce Gimmestad retired at 88. She reflects on 7 many years in healthcare

Joyce Gimmestad hoped to succeed in 90 before retiring from being a nurse. Still, she retired on June 22, at 88, attributable to a...

Family of 83-year-old St. Paul man killed in hit-and-run: ‘We’ll forgive you. … Please turn yourself in’

For 30 years, John Bidon took each day runs around Lake Phalen near his St. Paul home. He’d stretch it out to 5 miles...