79,810 Minnesotans are $100 richer and have a lower risk of getting sick from COVID
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I'd do that for $100: 79,810 Minnesotans got their first COVID-19 vaccine shot over the past three weeks in exchange for a $100 gift card from the state.
Is this seat taken? The search goes on for the next next MN GOP chair. State Senator Mark Koran says he'll pass on that job.
Governor candidate watch: A "Draft Kendall Qualls" for Minnesota Governor committee has been registered. Kendall Qualls ran for Minnesota's Third Congressional District last cycle. More from Brian Bakst.
The officer who shot and killed Ashli Babbitt during the January 6 insurrection acted within department policy and won't be disciplined, the Capitol Police announced.
Since Babbitt's death, the far right has painted the rioter as a martyr who was felled by a system intent on villainizing Trump supporters.
The department has faced a flurry of calls to identify the officer who fired the fatal shot, including from within the Congress among lawmakers the officers are sworn to protect.
"Six months ago today, Ashli Babbitt, a 110-pound woman with nothing in her hands, not a rock, not a stick or a bat, was shot dead by a still unknown Capitol Hill police officer," Arizona Rep. Paul Gosar said in a statement on the six month anniversary of the insurrection.
Law enforcement has also faced criticism within progressive circles for failing to thwart — and by some video evidence, seeming to welcome — the horde of violent Trump supporters. Read more from Alana Wise.
Listen: It's been a Monday, eh? I often like to listen to jazz or electronic music with minimal words when I'm writing or editing. One of the newest arrivals on my focus playlist is Disclosure's In My Arms. If you end up busting a move, keep dancing and imagine rain falling from the sky across the state. | |
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