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2 weeks ago | 
birminghamworld.uk | Jack O'Connor
Consumers can compete for the chance to win JD vouchers whilst enjoying a live DJ as the ‘King of Trainers’ launches its newly refurbished store at The Fort Shopping Park. JD, the leading retailer of sports, fashion and lifestyle brands has opened the doors to its bigger and better store at The Fort Shopping Park. The newly refurbished unit, open from Monday 9th June, includes a significant expansion, with an additional 3,794 sq. ft of retail space now added.
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3 weeks ago | 
jdsupra.com | Tracey E. Diamond |Jack O'Connor
On June 1, new job posting requirements took effect in New Jersey under the New Jersey Pay and Benefit Transparency Act. The “Pay Transparency Act,” signed into law by Governor Phil Murphy in November 2024, requires employers to include information about compensation in job postings. Employers also must take steps to make current employees aware of internal promotional opportunities.
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3 weeks ago | 
openlegalblogarchive.org | Jack O'Connor |Tracey E. Diamond
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1 month ago | 
inforum.com | Jack O'Connor
MINNEAPOLIS — Minnesota’s two largest higher education institutions are warning of tuition increases and education cuts as the Legislature passes a limit on new higher education spending. HF2431 , which passed out of the Senate on Thursday, May 1, makes dramatic cuts to one-time grant funding to the University of Minnesota and Minnesota State Colleges and Universities systems. The bill does not decrease base funding for the institutions.
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2 months ago | 
inforum.com | Jack O'Connor
MINNEAPOLIS — The first person convicted of helping Feeding Our Future steal millions of dollars of public funds was sentenced in October 2024. Two autism treatment centers in St. Cloud and Minneapolis were raided by the FBI in December for fraudulent Medicaid claims. In April, a couple was indicted for defrauding around $15 million from health insurers, and the state’s attorney general’s office convicted an apartment subcontractor of wage theft for the first time.
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2 months ago | 
inforum.com | Jack O'Connor
MINNEAPOLIS — Over a hundred people came to the capital Wednesday to raise awareness about the disproportionate rates of violence facing Black women as part of Missing and Murdered Black Women and Girls Day on the Hill. The Wednesday, April 9, event also celebrated the Office for Missing and Murdered Black Women and Girls, which was created in 2023 to investigate and attempt to reduce the deaths and disappearances of Black women in the state.
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2 months ago | 
duluthnewstribune.com | Jack O'Connor
ST. PAUL — Legislators advanced the education policy omnibus bill, which could require schools to implement a cell phone ban policy, mandate greater transparency for charter schools and amend the READ Act. The Senate and House passed their versions of the education policy omnibus bill Wednesday with bipartisan support, where it will eventually be heard on the floors of both chambers.
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2 months ago | 
postbulletin.com | Jack O'Connor
ST. PAUL — Legislators advanced the education policy omnibus bill, which could require schools to implement a cell phone ban policy, mandate greater transparency for charter schools and amend the READ Act. The Senate and House passed their versions of the education policy omnibus bill Wednesday with bipartisan support, where it will eventually be heard on the floors of both chambers.
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2 months ago | 
parkrapidsenterprise.com | Jack O'Connor
MINNEAPOLIS — Private schools are raising the alarm over Gov. Tim Walz’s proposed education budget, which cuts funding for nonpublic school transportation and educational materials in 2026. Walz’s updated budget proposal, released March 21, eliminates nonpublic pupil education aid — estimated to cost $52.5 million in 2026-27 and $56.4 million in 2028-29 — and nonpublic pupil transportation aid — budgeted at $56.2 million for 2026-7 and $58.4 million for 2028-29.
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Mar 29, 2025 | 
inforum.com | Jack O'Connor
MINNEAPOLIS — Prison reformers want Minnesota to end its use of solitary confinement and improve conditions for inmates separated from the rest of the prison population. The commissioner overseeing the state’s prisons and jails said the issue is more complicated. A Senate bill, SF207, and its House counterpart, HF1628, would ban solitary confinement and mandate better conditions for those in segregated housing.
