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94th Minnesota Legislature
The Ninety-fourth Minnesota Legislature is the current meeting of the legislative branch of the state of Minnesota, composed of the Minnesota Senate and the Minnesota House of Representatives. It convened in Saint Paul on January 14, 2025, following the 2024 Minnesota House of Representatives election, November 2024 elections for the House as well as a 2024 Minnesota Senate District 45 special election, special election for Senate District 45. The Minnesota Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party, Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party (DFL) held a one-seat majority in the Senate and a five-seat majority in the House in the 93rd Minnesota Legislature, previous legislature. The 2024 elections left the Senate composition unchanged, but it left the House evenly split between the Republicans and the DFL. Due to a pre-session vacancy, the 94th legislature began with a power struggle between the Republicans and the DFL in the House. Background House rule changes Under HF 1830, which was pa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
93rd Minnesota Legislature
The Ninety-third Minnesota Legislature was the meeting of the legislative branch of the state of Minnesota, composed of the Minnesota Senate and the Minnesota House of Representatives between 2023 and 2024. It convened in Saint Paul on January 3, 2023 and adjourned ''sine die'' on May 20, 2024. Background This was the first legislature to be fully DFL-controlled since the 88th Minnesota Legislature in 2013–15. During the first session (2023), the body passed a number of major reforms to Minnesota law, including requiring Paid time off, paid leave, banning Non-compete clause, noncompete agreements, cannabis legalization, increased spending on infrastructure and environmental protection, modernizing the state's tax code, codifying Abortion in Minnesota#Protecting Reproductive Options Act, abortion rights, universal free school meals, and universal Universal background check, gun background checks, among others. The ''Star Tribune'' called it "one of the most consequential" ev ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WCCO-TV
WCCO-TV (channel 4), branded CBS Minnesota, is a television station licensed to Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States, serving the Twin Cities area. It is owned and operated by the CBS television network through its CBS News and Stations division, and maintains studios on South 11th Street along Nicollet Mall in downtown Minneapolis; its transmitter is located at the Telefarm complex in Shoreview, Minnesota. WCCO-TV's programming is also seen on full-power satellite station KCCW-TV (channel 12) in Walker, Minnesota, Walker (with transmitter near Hackensack, Minnesota, Hackensack). Nielsen Media Research treats WCCO-TV and KCCW-TV as one station in local ratings books, using the identifier name WCCO+. From 1987 until 2017, WCCO-TV operated a second satellite, KCCO-TV (virtual and VHF digital channel 7) in Alexandria, Minnesota, Alexandria (with transmitter near Westport, Minnesota, Westport). WCCO is one of three owned-and-operated network affiliates in the Twin Cities market, t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Minnesota Supreme Court
The Minnesota Supreme Court is the highest court in the U.S. state of Minnesota. The court hears cases in the Supreme Court chamber in the Minnesota State Capitol or in the nearby Minnesota Judicial Center. History The court was first assembled as a three-judge panel in 1849 when Minnesota was still a territory. The first members were lawyers from outside the region, appointed by President Zachary Taylor. The court system was rearranged when Minnesota became a state in 1858. Appeals from Minnesota District Courts went directly to the Minnesota Supreme Court until the Minnesota Court of Appeals, an intermediate appellate court, was created in 1983 to handle most of those cases. The court now considers about 900 appeals per year and accepts review in about one in eight cases. Before the Court of Appeals was created, the Minnesota Supreme Court handled about 1,800 cases a year. Certain appeals can go directly to the Supreme Court, such as those involving taxes, first degree ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harry Niska
Harry Niska is an American politician serving in the Minnesota House of Representatives since 2023. A member of the Republican Party of Minnesota, Niska represents District 31A in the north Twin Cities metropolitan area, which includes the cities of Ramsey and Andover in Anoka County, Minnesota. Early life, education and career Birth and education Niska grew up in Andover, Minnesota, and graduated from Anoka High School. He received his bachelor's degree in political science from Concordia College, Moorhead, and his Juris Doctor degree from the University of Minnesota Law School. Legal experience Niska worked as a law clerk on the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals for Judge Roger Leland Wollman from 2005 to 2006, and for Judge David Stras in 2018. He also served on the Ramsey County Charter Commission. He worked at law firm Ross & Orenstein, and unsuccessfully ran for a seat on the Ramsey City Council in 2010. In 2015, Niska brought a complaint against a Republican activist ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Anderson (Minnesota State Representative)
Paul H. Anderson (born June 15, 1951) is an American politician serving in the Minnesota House of Representatives since 2009. A member of the Republican Party of Minnesota, Anderson represents District 12A in central Minnesota, which includes the cities of Morris and Benson and portions of Big Stone, Pope, Stearns, Stevens and Swift Counties. Early education and career Born in Starbuck, Minnesota, Anderson attended Starbuck High School. He graduated from the University of Minnesota, Morris, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts in physical education and education. Before running for the House, Anderson served as a Pope County commissioner, a member of the Starbuck School Board, and a Starbuck township officer. He is a fourth-generation farmer, and operates a 700-acre farm near Starbuck. Minnesota House of Representatives Anderson was elected to the Minnesota House of Representatives in 2008 and has been reelected every two years since. He first ran after three-term Republic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Steve Simon
Steve Simon (born December 12, 1969) is an American politician from the state of Minnesota serving as the 22nd Minnesota Secretary of State. A member of the Minnesota Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party (DFL), he previously represented District 46B in the Minnesota House of Representatives. Early life, education, and career Simon graduated from Hopkins High School in Minnetonka, then went on to Tufts University in Medford, Massachusetts, receiving his B.A. in Political Science in 1992. He earned his J.D. from the University of Minnesota Law School in 1996. He worked as an assistant attorney general for Minnesota attorneys general Hubert H. Humphrey III and Mike Hatch from 1996 to 2001, and has been an associate with the law firm of Robins, Kaplan, Miller, and Ciresi since 2001. Minnesota House of Representatives Simon was first elected in 2004, and was re-elected in 2006, 2008, 2010, and 2012. On Monday, May 2, 2011, Simon testified regarding and opposed a proposed constit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Associated Press
The Associated Press (AP) is an American not-for-profit organization, not-for-profit news agency headquartered in New York City. Founded in 1846, it operates as a cooperative, unincorporated association, and produces news reports that are distributed to its members, major U.S. daily newspapers and radio and television broadcasters. Since the award was established in 1917, the AP has earned 59 Pulitzer Prizes, including 36 for photography. The AP is also known for its widely used ''AP Stylebook'', its AP polls tracking National Collegiate Athletic Association, NCAA sports, sponsoring the National Football League's annual awards, and its election polls and results during Elections in the United States, US elections. By 2016, news collected by the AP was published and republished by more than 1,300 newspapers and broadcasters. The AP operates 235 news bureaus in 94 countries, and publishes in English, Spanish, and Arabic. It also operates the AP Radio Network, which provides twice ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Gottfried (politician)
David Gottfried is an American politician. A member of the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party, he has served in the Minnesota House of Representatives since March 18, 2025, representing parts of Ramsey County. Gottfried was first elected by special election. Early life, education, and career Gottfried was born in Roseville, Minnesota, and attended Roseville public schools. He received a bachelor's degree in vocal performance from St. Olaf College and a Masters of Public Policy from the Humphrey School of Public Affairs at the University of Minnesota. Before entering electoral politics, Gottfried worked as a pro bono specialist at a local legal firm. Minnesota House of Representatives After Representative Jamie Becker-Finn announced her retirement from Minnesota House of Representatives, two candidates emerged for the seat: Gottfried and Curtis Johnson. After the DFL endorsed Johnson, Gottfried withdrew from the race and did not appear on the primary ballot that August. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2025 Minnesota House Of Representatives District 40B Special Election
A special election was held in the U.S. state of Minnesota on March 11, 2025, to elect a new member for District 40B in the Minnesota House of Representatives, representing parts of Ramsey County, Minnesota, Ramsey County. The election was to fill the vacancy made after the initial election of Minnesota Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party, Democratic–Farmer–Labor (DFL) candidate Curtis Johnson was overturned for his failure to meet residency requirements. David Gottfried (politician), David Gottfried of the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party defeated Republican Party of Minnesota, Republican Party candidate Paul Wikstrom. Background District 40B is located in the cities of Roseville, Minnesota, Roseville and Shoreview, Minnesota, Shoreview in Ramsey County, Minnesota, Ramsey County, in the northeast portion of the Minneapolis-Saint Paul, Twin Cities. Almost two-thirds of the district's voters reside in Roseville. On November 5, 2024, there was a 2024 Minnesota House of Repr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tim Walz
Timothy James Walz (; born April 6, 1964) is an American politician who has served since 2019 as the 41st governor of Minnesota. He was the Democratic Party (United States), Democratic nominee for Vice President of the United States, vice president in the 2024 U.S. presidential election and a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from 2007 to 2019. Walz was born in West Point, Nebraska. After high school, he joined the Army National Guard and worked in a factory. He later graduated from Chadron State College in Nebraska and then moved to Minnesota in 1996. Before running for Congress, he was a high school social studies teacher and American football, football coach. He was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives for in 2006 United States House of Representatives elections in Minnesota#District 1, 2006, defeating six-term Republican incumbent Gil Gutknecht. Walz was reelected to the House five times and was the ranking member of the House Veterans Affairs Committee ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
KARE-TV
KARE (channel 11) is a television station licensed to Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States, serving as the NBC affiliate for the Twin Cities area. Owned by Tegna Inc., the station maintains studios on Olson Memorial Highway (MN 55) in Golden Valley, Minnesota, Golden Valley and a transmitter at the Telefarm site in Shoreview, Minnesota. Channel 11 began broadcasting on September 1, 1953. It was originally shared by WMIN-TV in Saint Paul, Minnesota, St. Paul and WTCN-TV in Minneapolis; the two stations shared an affiliation with American Broadcasting Company, ABC and alternated presenting local programs. In 1955, Consolidated Television and Radio bought both stations and merged them as WTCN-TV from the Minneapolis studios in the Calhoun Beach Club, Calhoun Beach Hotel. The station presented several regionally and nationally notable children's shows in its early years as well as local cooking, news, and sports programs. Time Inc. purchased the station in 1957. Under its ownership, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Melissa Hortman
Melissa Anne Hortman (née Haluptzok; May27, 1970June14, 2025) was an American politician and lawyer who served as the 61st Speaker of the Minnesota House of Representatives from 2019 to 2025. A member of the Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party, she represented northern parts of the Twin Cities metropolitan area in the Minnesota House of Representatives from 2005 until her assassination in 2025, serving as the House minority leader from 2017 to 2019 and as the speaker from 2019 to January 2025. During her tenure, she advocated for transportation, environmental rights, abortion rights, police reform, and gun control policies, and was the chief author of the state's solar energy standard. On June 14, 2025, Hortman and her husband were shot dead in their home in Brooklyn Park, Minnesota. Early life and education Hortman was born Melissa Anne Haluptzok in Fridley, Minnesota, on May 27, 1970. She grew up in Spring Lake Park and Andover, and became interested in being a p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
