MPR News PM Update

March 11, 2024

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Minnesota Senate advances school resource officer bill

The bill heads next to a conference committee where members of the House and Senate will smooth out differences between the proposals they advanced.
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Vice President Kamala Harris plans visit to Twin Cities on Thursday

The White House said Thursday’s visit will be the sixth stop on Harris’ “Fight for Reproductive Freedoms” tour that started in January.
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🧫 Minnesota Democrats weigh in on national IVF debate, push infertility treatment coverage
Minnesota Democrats are pushing to require health plans to cover the cost of infertility treatments and to cement access to the services in state law.
🏛️ Minnesota court affirms rejection of teaching license for ex-officer who shot Philando Castile
A Minnesota board was justified when it rejected a substitute teaching license for a former police officer who fatally shot Philando Castile during a traffic stop in 2016, an appeals court ruled Monday.
🏆 Minnesota’s Peggy Flanagan to Lily Gladstone on her Oscar loss: ‘You already won’
Gladstone was the first Indigenous performer to win a Golden Globe award, for best actress in a drama — just one of the many “firsts” that she achieved leading up to the Oscars.
🔍 State investigators back at site of Lutsen Resort fire this week
State fire investigators will be back at Lutsen Resort along Minnesota’s North Shore as they continue working to determine the cause of the massive fire that destroyed the resort’s main lodge last month.
🛍️ Retailers howled about theft last year. Why not now?
Mentions of retail theft seem to be fading, their fever pitch cooling. What’s changed? And how bad was the problem in the first place?
–  Nicole Johnson, MPR News
 

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