Renee Schneider

1 week ago | miamiherald.com | Renee Schneider

As the Minnesota Legislature blew its deadline to pass a $66 billion budget last week, legislative leaders and Gov. Tim Walz said they hoped lawmakers would return to the Capitol for a special session to enact new state spending by the end of May. That's looking less likely by the day as disagreements over a budget framework deal reached by leadership continue to slow progress.

2 weeks ago | islandpacket.com | Renee Schneider

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz answers questions after a bill signing expanding support for service dogs in training at the State Capitol in St. Paul, Minnesota, on Thursday, May 8, 2025. (Renée Jones Schneider/The Minnesota Star Tribune/TNS) Renée Jones Schneider TNS MINNEAPOLIS - Gov. Tim Walz drew the ire of the Trump administration this week after he likened federal immigration authorities to Hitler's Gestapo during a commencement speech to Minnesota law school graduates.

2 weeks ago | miamiherald.com | Renee Schneider

With just hours remaining in the regular 2025 legislative session on Monday, Minnesota lawmakers still hadn't granted final passage to major pieces of the upcoming two-year state budget, including bills on taxes, education and health care spending. A special session will be required to enact last week's $66 billion or so budget framework agreement reached by Gov. Tim Walz, the Democratic-Farmer-Labor majority Senate and DFL and Republican leadership of the 67-67 tied House.

3 weeks ago | miamiherald.com | Renee Schneider

MINNEAPOLIS - When the University of Minnesota offered to let me experience what it's like to die, naturally I said yes. Aren't we all morbidly curious about the undiscovered country, as Hamlet put it, from which no traveler returns? Except this time, happily, I would get to return because it would be a virtual death, an experience in a VR studio that's part of the university's Health Sciences Library system.

3 weeks ago | kansas.com | Renee Schneider

MINNEAPOLIS - When the University of Minnesota offered to let me experience what it's like to die, naturally I said yes. Aren't we all morbidly curious about the undiscovered country, as Hamlet put it, from which no traveler returns? Except this time, happily, I would get to return because it would be a virtual death, an experience in a VR studio that's part of the university's Health Sciences Library system.