Temperatures will be chilly, mainly in the 30s with some lower 40s in far western Minnesota. Tuesday will be slightly warmer, but a colder pattern sets in midweek into the weekend with the potential for two snowfalls. Get the latest weather news on Updraft.
Coming up on Morning Edition: Uber and Lyft say they plan to stop service in the Twin Cities May 1. The threat has some calling for a statewide solution to adequately protect and compensate rideshare drivers. Joining MPR News host Cathy Wurzer this morning is Sen. Omar Fateh, the author behind one such bill at the legislature right now.
Minnesota lawmakers are on course to surpass 10,000 bills submitted since this two-year run of the Legislature began, setting a record for the most proposals offered up in that cycle.
Most of them will fall by the wayside this week as a Friday deadline funnels out policy proposals that haven’t been teed up for a floor vote in time.
“I think on Monday, we’re gonna cross 5,000 bills introduced into the House, and of those 5,000, there are probably 4,500 that I would not want to make deadline and they won’t,” Rep. Zack Stephenson, DFL-Coon Rapids, joked last week.
When the state of Minnesota legalized adult-use cannabis last year, legislators made a subtle change to the books: they struck most mentions of “marijuana” and swapped it out for “cannabis.”
Amid the slew of changes coming with legalization — expunging criminal records, setting up a licensing, staffing up the Office of Cannabis Management after a botched appointment — the language change is small. But it’s become common practice across the country as more states legalize it.
Before 1900 or so, most medical reports and studies in the U.S called it cannabis, the scientific name. But, around the turn of the century, many newspapers and politicians started calling it “marijuana,” the Spanish word for the plant.
‘Fargo’ cinematographer to be featured at MSP International Film Festival.Oscar-winning cinematographer Roger Deakins will be attending three events in Minneapolis in late April, including a screening of “Fargo” and a book signing for “Byways,” his book of still photography.
PWHL: Minnesota defeats New York, extending longest winning streak of the season. PWHL Minnesota won its fourth-straight game Saturday, defeating New York 5-1 in front of more than 9,000 fans at Xcel Energy Center in St. Paul.
Minneapolis makes steps towards compliance with policing agreement, obstacles remain. The city of Minneapolis has leadership vacancies in two departments which play a central role in keeping up the city’s end of the court-enforced agreement on policing with the state’s human rights department.
