Esme Murphy
Anchor and Reporter at WCCO-TV (Minneapolis, MN)
Reporter/Anchor WCCO-TV ,Mom and wife
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1 week ago |
cbsnews.com | Esme Murphy
Health care for undocumented Minnesotans among road blocks to budget agreement Budget talks between legislative leaders and the governor continued on Monday at the State Capitol. There are two weeks left in the session, and the biggest priority is reaching a balanced budget deal. Legislative leaders and Governor Tim Walz met all weekend and have not come to any agreement. Some key roadblocks are preventing a deal from coming together.
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1 week ago |
cbsnews.com | Esme Murphy
Since 1969, Minnesota private school children have been eligible for a taxpayer funded transportation stipend. In the 1970s, another taxpayer-paid stipend was added for books, nurses and counselors. The transportation stipend is $500 to $600 and aid per pupil for textbooks, nurses and counselors is $540 a year, for a grand total of $1,140 per pupil. Statewide, the subsidy amounts to $109 million a year. Gov.
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2 weeks ago |
cbsnews.com | Esme Murphy |Liz Christy
New lead to take the helm amid education uncertainty For the first time in 12 years, the 84,000-member Minnesota teachers union, Education Minnesota, will have a new president. Monica Byron will be MEA's first president of color at a time when the president of the United States, Donald Trump, is warning of funding cuts unless all DEI programs are banned. Byron says Minnesota teachers will fight to keep DEI-focused programs.
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2 weeks ago |
cbsnews.com | Esme Murphy
Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison faced members of the House Fraud Committee on Monday who sought questions about a 2021 meeting he had with business owners later convicted in the Feeding Our Future fraud case. In a secretly recorded conversation, the future defendants are heard complaining about state agencies and discussing possible campaign contributions. The conversation took place one month before the first search warrant was filed, and nine months before any indictments.
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2 weeks ago |
cbsnews.com | Esme Murphy
This is the first year Minnesota is providing undocumented workers with the state health insurance known as MinnesotaCare. Republicans at the State Capitol say they want to end the program, in large part because of the cost to taxpayers. But Democrats — as well as hospitals, doctors and nurses — are lobbying to keep the benefit.
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.@AGEllison is suing @realDonaldTrump @AGPamBondi for “bullying “ trans gender kids and barring them from sports . Ellison says Administration is threatening to cut off federal funding to Mn- Ellison launching this as a preemptive strike @wcco 4,5 6 pm https://t.co/IQTyp9sFPM
In 1st year numbers of undocumented immigrants applying for free health care in Mn shatters expectations- GOP wants program rolled back , Democrats say the undocumented pay taxes and it’s not a giveaway and alleviates crowded ERs - @WCCO 5pm
