Author: MinnPost

The press release all Minnesota Capitol reporters, state workers and others have been waiting for arrived Friday afternoon: Gov. Tim Walz has called a special session of the Legislature for Monday and outlined the agreements that would govern what will be discussed and how. This ambitious one-day special session aims to tackle a mountain of work that lawmakers left unfinished when the Legislature ended its regular session on May 19 without completing numerous budget bills that must be passed to avoid a state government shutdown. I’ve put together some key takeaways from the documents, a House leadership press conference Friday…

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For Courteney Ross, there’s a distinction between the man she still loves and the movement that bears his name. “I kind of have to separate Floyd from George Floyd,” said Ross. Ross met Floyd, who she called by his last name – “unless I was getting mad at him and call(ing) him George Perry Floyd” – in 2017. Floyd was working security at the Salvation Army’s Harbor Light Center, where Ross was waiting to visit someone. Floyd noticed that Ross was becoming upset and offered to pray with her. “I just was so kind of taken back by how kind…

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