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Minnesota prisons are logging record amounts of overtime, and it’s wearing workers down

The Minnesota Department of Corrections shelled out nearly $12.3 million for more than 262,000 hours of overtime in fiscal year 2019, according to DOC data. → Read More

In ‘Conan’ interview, Al Franken talks resignation, Trump impeachment – Twin Cities

Al Franken continued to inch his way back into the spotlight on Thursday night, telling late-night television host Conan O’Brien that he “deserved due process” before he stepped d… → Read More

Can Minnesota Republicans and Democrats find a compromise to solve the insulin problem?

Lawmakers themselves have boiled down their differences to this: Democrats want an emergency bill, Republicans want an urgency bill. → Read More

Oak Park Heights prison officer Joe Parise honored on first anniversary of his death

A humble hero. A servant of the community. A person always willing to help. Those were some of the words that friends and colleagues used to describe fallen corrections officer Joe Parise during a … → Read More

Minnesota DHS estimate of tribal overpayments grows: Total now about $29 million

The Minnesota Department of Human Services has come forward with a new estimate on the amount it overpaid two Native American tribes for substance abuse treatment covered under Medicaid. Officials … → Read More

UMN President Joan Gabel: Hiring of lawmaker put ‘core value’ at risk – Twin Cities

Yeah, it wasn’t quite right. That’s essentially how the new University of Minnesota president described the hiring of a Democratic state lawmaker that brought scrutiny on the U’s … → Read More

Minnesota DHS Commissioner fills out staff following flurry of resignations

Minnesota Human Services Commissioner Jodi Harpstead has picked a new chief of staff and state Medicaid director to help oversee the sprawling agency. Harpstead announced Monday that Stacy Twite, … → Read More

15 minutes with the new DHS commish: Her plan to restore trust in the troubled agency

Minnesota’s new Human Services Commissioner Jodi Harpstead has been at the helm of the state’s largest and most troubled agency for just over a week. And she is already charting a path for her firs… → Read More

Medical marijuana patients on edge over vaping scare; manufacturers say products are safe

Katy Cummins-Bakko relies on medical marijuana for her connective tissue disease, which can trigger pain or dislocation with each step. At night, when pain can creep up and keep her awake, she uses… → Read More

Klobuchar slams ‘Medicare-for-all,’ defends her prosecutor record – Twin Cities

U.S. Sen. Amy Klobuchar blasted “Medicare-for-all,” defended her record as a prosecutor in Minnesota and said she supports a voluntary gun buyback program during the third Democratic presidential d… → Read More

Democratic lawmaker resigns from UMN amid questions over how he was hired

A Democratic lawmaker has resigned from a position at the University of Minnesota amid questions about how he got the gig and whether it conflicted with his work at the State Capitol. And the woman… → Read More

State legislative auditor will investigate MPCA for its handling of Water Gremlin scandal

Minnesota Legislative Auditor Jim Nobles is wading into a standoff between state regulators and an embattled air-polluting factory in White Bear Township. But it’s not the factory that he say… → Read More

Minnesota Medicaid director resigns from her post at DHS

The Minnesota Department of Human Services is losing another member of its executive leadership team, just days before a new commissioner will take the helm at the troubled agency. Marie Zimmerman,… → Read More

Departing Minnesota DHS commissioner says state should break up the agency

Minnesota’s interim Human Services commissioner is leaving the embattled agency with one last recommendation: split the department in two. → Read More

At State Fair, Democrats begin gathering public input on marijuana legalization

Minnesota Democrats say they want to legalize and regulate marijuana in next year’s legislative session, but first they want members of the public to tell them how they should do it. → Read More

Minnesota owes the feds $48 million for improper Medicaid payments made by DHS

The state of Minnesota must pay back an estimated $48 million to the federal government because it improperly dealt out money to certain state chemical dependency treatment providers. → Read More

Minnesota DHS leader resigns again, after she rescinded resignation last month

A top official from Minnesota’s embattled Human Services agency has resigned, just over a month after she tendered an earlier resignation and then took it back. Claire Wilson, deputy commissi… → Read More

Federal officials order Minnesota DHS to repay Medicaid money it improperly dealt out

Federal officials have ordered the Minnesota Department of Human Services to pay back money that it improperly dealt out to certain state chemical dependency providers. In a May letter, the Centers… → Read More

Presidential hopefuls Bernie Sanders and Amy Klobuchar to visit Minnesota State Fair

U.S. Sens. Bernie Sanders and Amy Klobuchar will visit the Minnesota State Fair this week to whip up support for their Democratic presidential campaigns. Sanders will visit the State Fair on Saturd… → Read More

Presidential hopeful Sen. Bernie Sanders to raise money in Minneapolis this weekend

U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders will visit Minneapolis this weekend to raise money for his presidential campaign, making him the fifth Democratic 2020 hopeful to visit Minnesota this election cycle. The V… → Read More