Minnesota Reformer

1 week ago | minnesotareformer.com | Jennifer Shutt |Minnesota Reformer

WASHINGTON — The Public Broadcasting Service and Lakeland PBS in Minnesota sued the Trump administration Friday, arguing an executive order seeking to cut off their federal funding violates the Constitution and would “upend public television.”The lawsuit was filed just days after a collection of National Public Radio stations sued President Donald Trump over the same executive order, which blocked the Corporation from Public Broadcasting from funding the networks.

1 week ago | minnesotareformer.com | Ariana Figueroa |Minnesota Reformer

WASHINGTON — A federal judge in Maryland slammed the Trump administration Friday for its “blatant lack of effort to comply” with her order earlier this month to report steps taken to facilitate the return of a second wrongly deported man to a notorious mega-prison in El Salvador.

1 week ago | minnesotareformer.com | Michelle Griffith |Minnesota Reformer

A bill to fund critical public works projects — including upgrading the state’s roads, protecting Minnesota’s drinking water and expanding city sewers — is dead this year, legislative leaders said Thursday. The Minnesota Legislature in even years typically passes an infrastructure package — known as a “bonding bill” around the Capitol because it’s funded with borrowed money — that costs hundreds of millions and sometimes billions of dollars.

1 week ago | minnesotareformer.com | Max Nesterak |Minnesota Reformer

In a victory for Minnesota’s new Nursing Home Workforce Standards Board, a federal judge dismissed a lawsuit brought by two industry groups challenging the board’s authority to mandate that nursing homes pay workers time-and-a-half on 11 holidays. The lawsuit was the first legal challenge to the board since the Legislature created it in 2023 to set minimum pay and working standards for nursing home workers across the state.

1 week ago | marijuanamoment.net | Christopher Ingraham |Minnesota Reformer

Minnesota became the butt of national jokes after the state Supreme Court ruled in 2009 that bong water could be legally considered a drug. By Christopher Ingraham, Minnesota ReformerMinnesota authorities would no longer be able to charge people with major drug crimes solely on the basis of the dirty water in their bongs—thanks to a provision in the 192-page judiciary and public safety bill that was sent to Gov. Tim Walz (DFL) over the weekend. He’s expected to sign it.