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Last night, the Minnesota House decided that amendment using the same 40-hour per week standard to calculate overtime for farm workers was not germane to a bill designating March 31 as Cesar Chavez Day. Continue Reading
Overall, Bluestem Prairie is pleased with the compromise minimum wage agreement that’s coming out of the conference committee. The wage is raised to $9.50 in steps, it’s indexed to inflation (and apparently deflation), and there’s a small business rate and youth rate. Continue Reading
After months of objecting to government regulation, Minnesota state representative Marion O’Neill (R-Buffalo) has finally found one she loves. Continue Reading
As the photo above illustrates, Governor Dayton has backed off statements Bluestem examined in Medical pot: Mark Dayton feels your pain, but thinks you people with PTSD are probably faking it. Continue Reading
Bluestem Prairie’s neighbors here in Maynard are deeply concerned about our disappearing pollinators; it’s the one subject people talk most about, perhaps because the tiny town is a farming community–or because everybody agrees that we need to rescue our bees and butterfly populations. Continue Reading
The guest of honor at the Minnesota Tea Party Alliance 1st Quarter Event on March 6 in Mounds Views was roasted in Arizona the other night. Continue Reading
In Variety of topics expected during legislative session, Forum News Service political reporter Don Davis includes the following in a laundry list of potential bills: Continue Reading
While state legislative leaders declared concerns about frac sand mining off the table for the coming session, grassroots opponents in Southeastern Minnesota’s bluffs and sand hills are shifting their resistance to a different branch of government. Continue Reading
Much is being made about a new Star Tribune Minnesota Poll: Majority support legalization of medical marijuana. That seems like good news for those of us who want marijuana made legal if heavily regulated and available by prescription from doctors. Continue Reading
One conventional bit of argument about raising the minimum wage is shared by a businessman in extreme Southwestern Minnesota cited in Doug Beldon’s article in Friday’s Pioneer Press, Raising Minnesota’s minimum wage expected to be hot issue: Continue Reading