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Minnesota Reformer@minnesotareformer.com · 5h ago

More than half of Minnesota Paid Leave applicants earn less than $78,000 a year — workers who historically had the least access to paid leave and the least cushion to fall back on. Commentary: Paid Leave is helping workers — and businesses like mine minnesotareformer.com/2026/08/05/p...

Paid Leave is helping workers — and businesses like mine • Minnesota Reformer

For small businesses like mine, the Paid Leave program saves me money while providing a safety net that my employees deserve.

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Minnesota Reformer@minnesotareformer.com · 21h ago

AG nominee tells faith leaders he will take action to restrict abortion drug access minnesotareformer.com/2026/08/04/r...

AG nominee tells faith leaders he will take action to restrict abortion drug access • Minnesota Reformer

Acting U.S. Attorney General Todd Blanche is one step closer to confirmation after the Republican Judiciary Committee voted to advance his appointment on a party-line vote on Tuesday, and based on pro...

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Minnesota Reformer@minnesotareformer.com · yesterday

ICE will pay CoreCivic more than half a billion dollars over five years to reopen a defunct 1,600-bed prison in rural western Minnesota as an immigrant detention center.

ICE, CoreCivic to open Appleton immigrant detention center this year • Minnesota Reformer

Immigration and Customs Enforcement will pay private prison company CoreCivic more than half a billion dollars to reopen a defunct 1,600-bed prison in rural western Minnesota as an immigrant detention...

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Minnesota Reformer@minnesotareformer.com · yesterday

Commentary from @cingraham.bsky.social on the latest embarrassment for the Polk County attorney, who has spent decades pushing the law to its limits in pursuit of severe penalties for drug users. minnesotareformer.com/2026/08/04/m...

Minnesota's most aggressive drug prosecutor keeps getting overruled. He’s running unopposed (again). • Minnesota Reformer

Elections are the primary check on prosecutorial power, but in Minnesota and elsewhere that check is largely theoretical.

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Minnesota Reformer@minnesotareformer.com · 2d ago

On Jan. 11, Gregory Bovino watched as his Border Patrol agents dragged a man out of his car at a St. Paul Speedway, knelt on his back until he lost consciousness, and dragged his limp body into the back of a van. The man's name is Orbin Mauricio Henriquez Serrano and this is his story.

Orbin Mauricio Henriquez Serrano survived a violent arrest in St. Paul. It still haunts him. • Minnesota Reformer

The morning of Jan. 11 began for Orbin Mauricio Henriquez Serrano with an ominous warning: The gas light on his Jeep Cherokee was glowing yellow on the dashboard. He didn’t want to go to work at the r...

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Minnesota Reformer@minnesotareformer.com · 2d ago

Klobuchar gives low-dose THC industry some hope for a reprieve from coming prohibition minnesotareformer.com/briefs/klobu...

Klobuchar gives low-dose THC industry some hope for a reprieve from coming prohibition • Minnesota Reformer

Sen. Amy Klobuchar, who is a candidate for governor of Minnesota, said her bill — known as the Hemp Planning Predictability Act — made it into a bipartisan Senate budget deal that would keep the gover...

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Minnesota Reformer@minnesotareformer.com · 2d ago

Commentary: Data shows that in 2025 Minnesota’s statewide suicide rate increased by 4%, totaling more than 800 deaths in a single year. Rates among children ages 10 to 14 are moving in the wrong direction. Kids in middle school. Kids like Ava and Alexis. minnesotareformer.com/2026/08/03/o...

Our children are telling us something. Are we listening? • Minnesota Reformer

We hold the losses of Ava Starr and Alexis Thornton, and every family who has walked this road, at the center of everything we do. Not as statistics. As children.

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Minnesota Reformer@minnesotareformer.com · 2d ago

On Jan. 11, Gregory Bovino watched as his Border Patrol agents dragged a man out of his car at a St. Paul Speedway, knelt on his back until he lost consciousness, and dragged his limp body into the back of a van. The man's name is Orbin Mauricio Henriquez Serrano and this is his story.

Orbin Mauricio Henriquez Serrano survived a violent arrest in St. Paul. It still haunts him. • Minnesota Reformer

The morning of Jan. 11 began for Orbin Mauricio Henriquez Serrano with an ominous warning: The gas light on his Jeep Cherokee was glowing yellow on the dashboard. He didn’t want to go to work at the r...

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Minnesota Reformer@minnesotareformer.com · 5d ago

Minnesota’s paid leave payroll tax will remain at 0.88% in 2027, the state announced Friday — but a new actuarial analysis indicates the program may need to increase the rate in 2028 to abide by state law.

Minnesota paid leave payroll tax rate to remain the same next year • Minnesota Reformer

Minnesota’s paid leave payroll tax will remain at 0.88% in 2027, shared between workers and their employers, the state announced Friday — but a new actuarial analysis indicates the program may need to...

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Minnesota Reformer@minnesotareformer.com · 5d ago

President Donald Trump on Friday, speaking about cyber attacks on Minnesota water systems that experts say originated in Iran: "I would blame it on Minnesota and the governor, the corrupt governor of Minnesota… Iran’s got bigger problems than worrying about Minnesota," Trump said.

Blaming the victim: Trump faults Minnesota for cyber attacks experts say came from Iran • Minnesota Reformer

American intelligence agencies believe Iran is behind a cyber attack on more than 30 Minnesota water systems — plus an unknown number in other states — which came five months into the U.S.-Iran War, a...

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Minnesota Reformer@minnesotareformer.com · 5d ago

Trump and Musk cut funding for wildfire mitigation — and then the Northland started burning, Brian Martucci reports.

Trump and Musk cut funding for wildfire mitigation — and then the Northland started burning • Minnesota Reformer

The U.S. Forest Service lost more than 100 Minnesota employees and delayed $10 million in grant funding for wildfire mitigation in the Superior National Forest during the chaotic first year of Preside...

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Minnesota Reformer@minnesotareformer.com · 6d ago

Great reporting by @jennifershutt.bsky.social String of outbreaks tests US public health system amid funding cuts, vaccine resistance minnesotareformer.com/2026/07/30/r...

String of outbreaks tests US public health system amid funding cuts, vaccine resistance • Minnesota Reformer

HHS and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention did not agree to interview requests or to send a statement on the cause of the myriad of disease outbreaks.

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Minnesota Reformer@minnesotareformer.com · 6d ago

Immigration officials misused weapons hundreds of times during protests, report finds minnesotareformer.com/2026/07/30/i...

Immigration officials misused weapons hundreds of times during protests, report finds • Minnesota Reformer

Reprinted with permission from Capital & Main.  Human rights investigators have documented hundreds of instances of misuse of crowd-control weapons at protests of immigration enforcement since Preside...

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Minnesota Reformer@minnesotareformer.com · 7d ago

Worth revisiting a column published in 2024: minnesotareformer.com/2024/07/22/w...

What will happen to Emmer's beloved Constitution when they carry out their mass deportation? • Minnesota Reformer

He’ll apparently capitulate to just about anything for a spot on the stage.

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Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last wk.

Tom Emmer: "We are not creating a new Somalia ... if you do not want to be an American, you do not want to assimilate, then get the hell out of here. Go back to where you came from. You don't belong here."

Minnesota Reformer@minnesotareformer.com · last wk.

In Commentary, Joshua Thoreson asks Minnesotans — particularly Christians who have traveled to Haiti on mission trips — to consider the morality of sending Hatians back to a country Americans are advised not to visit.

If Haiti is too dangerous for American travelers, why is it safe enough for forced return? • Minnesota Reformer

The Supreme Court can decide what an administration is allowed to do.Minnesotans must still decide what is wise, humane and consistent with the values we claim.

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Minnesota Reformer@minnesotareformer.com · last wk.

The Trump administration is using the CFTC’s authority — which was intended to limit the economy’s exposure to massive risk-taking — to ban Minnesota from limiting people’s ability to take on extreme risk. minnesotareformer.com/briefs/judge...

Judge halts Minnesota ban on prediction markets • Minnesota Reformer

The companies have successfully persuaded the Trump administration that they are not gambling sites but a platform for futures contracts.

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Minnesota Reformer@minnesotareformer.com · last wk.

Commentary: Tobacco companies were once seen as invincible too: Cigarette smoking rates among American adults dropped from 43% to 12% between 1965 and 2022. We face the same daunting policy and cultural challenge when it comes to climate change. minnesotareformer.com/2026/07/28/w...

We've made progress against Big Tobacco, and we can do the same with the latest batch of bad air • Minnesota Reformer

My grandfather always told me, “I don’t want to go by the lungs.” Those were his words for telling me he feared dying due to lung failure.  I spent so much time at the hospital during his treatment an...

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Minnesota Reformer@minnesotareformer.com · last wk.

Angie Craig's vote for the Laken Riley Act has become perhaps her greatest liability in her tough Democratic primary for U.S. Senate against Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan. What that vote, and her reversal, says about her. minnesotareformer.com/2026/07/27/w...

Angie Craig defends immigration vote in the face of Democrats' fury over Operation Metro Surge • Minnesota Reformer

U.S. Rep. Angie Craig regrets that she didn’t see it coming: thousands of masked federal agents flooding American streets, arresting law-abiding immigrants without warrants and packing them in disease...

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madi mcvan@madisonmcvan.bsky.social · last wk.

we can't translate and disseminate all of our reporting in multiple languages. but when we interview someone in a another language, we make sure to hire a professional to translate the story for the source, their family and others who may be interested. as always, it's free for others to republish.

Minnesota Reformer@minnesotareformer.com · last wk.

‘No me rendiré tan fácilmente’: tras cuatro meses detenida, Andrea Pedro-Francisco comienza su lucha por obtener asilo

max nesterak@maxnesterak.bsky.social · last wk.

“My regret to give them a f***ing inch does drive my commitment to making sure that the Trump administration pays for what they’ve done,” said Rep. Angie Craig about her vote for the Laken Riley Act. minnesotareformer.com/2026/07/27/w...

What Angie Craig’s most controversial vote says about her • Minnesota Reformer

U.S. Rep. Angie Craig regrets that she didn’t see it coming: thousands of masked federal agents flooding American streets, arresting law-abiding immigrants without warrants and packing them in disease...

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