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Kaleena Burkes is head of Minnesota's new Office of Missing and Murdered Black Women and Girls
The Alabama native wants to help the underrepresented and disenfranchised after years on the state's Guardian ad Litem Board.
Minnesota Senate passes new penalties for gun straw buyers, bans binary triggers
Hermantown DFL Sen. Grant Hauschild voted for it while saying he won't support a safe-storage bill.
Ethics panel: Senator who sent graphic video link needs instruction on appropriate emails
DFL Sen. Erin Maye Quade filed the complaint last year against the Glencoe Republican because of an email he sent linking to a graphic gender surgery video.
GOP senators grill Sen. Nicole Mitchell's attorneys during ethics hearing about her burglary charge
The Woodbury DFLer didn't answer questions before the bipartisan subcommittee, but her attorney accused GOP senators of a "witch hunt." Democrats said Mitchell deserves due process.
Ethics panel takes up complaint against Republican senator who sent graphic video link
Sen. Erin Maye Quade said Sen. Glenn Gruenhagen's email linking to genital surgery violated Senate ethical norms.
Hot Dish 5.3.24
Two gun safety bills pass the House late on mostly party-line votes
Walz appoints Supreme Court finalist to Court of Appeals
The Minnesota law professor clerked for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor.
Gun safety bills may hinge on one senator's fate despite House support, likely passage
Bills before the Minnesota House would require safe storage and crack down on straw purchases The House passed legislation Monday creating a duty to report missing guns to law enforcement within 48 hours.
Hot Dish 4.26.24
Legislature completes jarring week jolted by arrest and charge against Mitchell
U.S. Bank Stadium gets new executive director
Ed Kroics has worked at the stadium for operator ASM since 2016