Twin Cities Daily Planet (https://www.tcdailyplanet.net/author/sonja-hegman/)
As the House works to wind down its work for the session, it’s still clear that anything can happen — example: a bill dealing with gambling became one that also contains the House’s liquor provisions.
If you’re a family caregiver should you be protected against discrimination in the workplace? This is the question the conference committee on the Women’s Economic Security Act (WESA) seeks to answer as it considers expanding protected classes within the Minnesota Human Rights Act.
Short-term lenders in Minnesota may be capped at the number of loans they can issue to a borrower per year and may have to limit interest rates.
After nearly three hours of debate — and several accusations that the minimum wage package was done as a “back room deal” between House and Senate leadership in exchange for a new legislative office building — the House voted 71-60 to increase the state’s minimum hourly wage to $9.50, phasing it in by 2016, and indexing for inflation starting in 2018.
After nearly four hours of debate Wednesday, the House passed the so-called “Women’s Economic Security Act” on a 106-24 vote.
Is racism at play in how the arts are funded in Minnesota? Some artists of color think so and are advocates of a bill sponsored by Rep. Phyllis Kahn (DFL-Mpls).
When little girls fantasize about what they want to grow up to be, some might imagine becoming an astronaut or archeologist while others might want to become lawyers or doctors. Others still might want to own a business. Yet, in the end, many don’t follow through with those dreams, thus creating a cycle of women going into lower wage jobs that are considered more traditionally female.
Cities and counties in Greater Minnesota could see expanded infrastructure help for business growth. This hinges on whether $25 million is appropriated in this year’s bonding bill to support the Greater Minnesota Business Development Public Infrastructure Grant Program.
Imagine a young girl standing patiently by as her father works on a car in their garage. She fetches any tool he needs and has memorized each one just to be a better helper. One day, she finally asks if he’ll teach her to work on cars and he says, “You’ll get dirty. Girls don’t work on cars.”
Liquor was the name of the game on Tuesday in the House Commerce and Consumer Protection Finance and Policy Committee. Eight bills were heard from allowing on-sale wine and malt-liquor licenses for professional junior hockey games in Richfield to reinstating sacramental wine sales by religious stores and expanding microdistillery sales. All bills were laid over for possible inclusion in an omnibus liquor bill.