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Steve Ovens joins Critical Thought and we dig into Canadian healthcare and Canadian tourism into the US.

https://www.valleynewslive.com/2023/02/16/minnesota-moves-toward-paid-sick-leave-mandate-everyone/

Nearly all Minnesota workers would be entitled to paid sick leave under a plan moving through the Legislature that’s aimed at the roughly one-third whose employers don’t already give them time off when they’re ill.

https://www.theepochtimes.com/single-world-government-and-ai-could-doom-humanity-says-musk-as-bing-ai-goes-rogue_5062220.html?utm_source=Morningbrief&src_src=Morningbrief&utm_campaign=mb-2023-02-17&src_cmp=mb-2023-02-17&utm_medium=email&est=y0nc96%2FtssIb3v1jzGcCzlv5QoTNIVnQV%2BcdVziVZ0CYbKE4bZji5bj29Sx6%2FKxP6iKSBc2DkREQLw%3D%3D

Establishing a “single world government” could bring about the end of humanity as a whole, billionaire Elon Musk warned while also calling artificial intelligence one of the “biggest risks” facing human civilization.

https://www.grandforksherald.com/business/state-tourism-industry-leaders-say-vaccine-requirement-is-keeping-canadian-travelers-home

The North Dakota director of tourism says although the number of Canadian travelers visiting North Dakota continues to increase, numbers have not yet recovered to pre-pandemic levels.

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/social-media/child-influencers-exploitation-bill-hearing-washington-state-hb1627-rcna70479

A Washington state teenager is advocating for a bill to protect the privacy of the children of influencers.

Chris McCarty, 18, a freshman at the University of Washington, said they wanted to advocate for children’s right to privacy online after having learned about influencer Myka Stauffer, who shared extensive, intimate content about her adopted son before she relinquished custody because of his medical needs.

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Mayor Brandon Bochenski (2/6/23) and Dana Sande (2/8/23) join the program and we discuss the city council last night voting to scrap the controversial Fufeng project to Grand Forks.

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As expected the city council last night (Monday) voted to scrap plans to bring the controversial Fufeng project to Grand Forks.

The move ends a lengthy debate over the China-based corn milling plant. It also follows a letter last week from an assistant secretary of the Air Force who cited national security concerns with locating the project in close proximity to the Grand Forks Air Force Base.

Prior to the action the council heard from over a dozen citizens upset with why it took so long to do so. Many asked for the resignation of individual council members and staff.

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U.S. Senator Kevin Cramer joins Critical Thought to discuss the Air Force letter that was critical of the Fufeng project in Grand Forks.

Cramer says the reason Andrew Hunter – the assistant secretary for acquisition, technology and logistics – penned the draft is testimony to the future of the GFAFB. “The most important person in the Air Force for Grand Forks right now is exactly that person because acquisition and technology screams Grand Forks Air Force Base.”

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U.S. Senator Kevin Cramer says the right person authored the Air Force letter that was critical of the Fufeng project in Grand Forks says a lot.

Cramer says the reason Andrew Hunter – the assistant secretary for acquisition, technology and logistics – penned the draft is testimony to the future of the GFAFB. “The most important person in the Air Force for Grand Forks right now is exactly that person because acquisition and technology screams Grand Forks Air Force Base.”

The letter called the proposed corn milling plant a threat to national security. As a result Grand Forks is dropping the project. Cramer says the Air Force has great interest in the local base – and that’s a good thing.

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The U-S Air Force has come out against the proposed Fufeng corn milling plant in Grand Forks for security reasons.

A letter to North Dakota U-S Senators John Hoeven and Kevin Cramer from the office of the assistant secretary of the Air Force said in part… that while the Committee on Foreign Investment in the U.S. (CFIUS) concluded that it had no jurisdiction, the Air Force believes the project presents “a significant threat to national security with both near- and long-term risks of significant impacts to our operations in the area.”

Mayor Brandon Bochenski joins Critical Thought to discuss the news, and as always your calls and your thoughts guide the discussion!

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The U-S Air Force has come out against the proposed Fufeng corn milling plant in Grand Forks for security reasons.

A letter to North Dakota U-S Senators John Hoeven and Kevin Cramer from the office of the assistant secretary of the Air Force said in part… that while the Committee on Foreign Investment in the U.S. (CFIUS) concluded that it had no jurisdiction, the Air Force believes the project presents “a significant threat to national security with both near- and long-term risks of significant impacts to our operations in the area.”

Fufeng bought land in Grand Forks to build a corn milling plant about 12 miles from the Grand Forks Air Force Base.

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A North Dakota House committee took testimony today (Thu) on a bill that would prohibit the State Board of Higher Education from on-campus bans of concealed firearms owned by anyone allowed to carry them. Should students be allowed to carry firearms on campus?

https://knoxradio.com/2023/01/26/testifiers-oppose-bill-to-bar-ndus-from-banning-legal-concealed-firearms-on-campus/

A North Dakota House committee took testimony today (Thu) on a bill that would prohibit the State Board of Higher Education from on-campus bans of concealed firearms owned by anyone allowed to carry them.

But other than the bill’s sponsor, Bismarck Republican Rep. Matt Heilman, no one spoke in favor of it.

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Amid a national wave of attempted book banning on LGBTQ subject matter, a North Dakota House panel heard arguments on a bill that would prohibit “sexually explicit” content – including depictions of sexual or gender identity – from public libraries, and would criminalize librarians who continue to display it.

https://knoxradio.com/2023/01/18/nd-weighs-ban-of-sexually-explicit-library-books/

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MN wants to give drivers license for all, Illinois becomes the latest state to ban assault rifles, and doctors insist on delivering bad news to patients themselves.

https://www.inforum.com/news/minnesota/minnesota-house-weighs-drivers-licenses-for-people-in-u-s-illegally

A Minnesota House panel is hearing testimony on a bill that would allow people in the U.S. illegally to obtain a driver's license, a long-held goal of immigration advocates that may gain more traction this year in a Democratic-Farmer-Labor controlled state government.

The “Driver’s Licenses For All” bill, sponsored by Rep. Aisha Gomez, DFL-Minneapolis, would remove the requirement for license applicants to provide proof of citizenship or lawful presence in the U.S. Minnesota created the requirement 20 years ago, barring those without legal status from obtaining a license.

https://abcnews.go.com/US/illinois-latest-us-state-ban-assault-weapons/story?id=96356906

Illinois on Tuesday became the latest U.S. state to ban the sale or possession of semiautomatic weapons.

Just hours after the legislation's passage in both chambers of the Illinois General Assembly, Gov. J.B. Pritzker signed the "Protect Illinois Communities Act" into law during a ceremony at the State Capitol in Springfield. Supporters, some of whom were gun violence survivors, erupted with applause and cheers as the governor presented the signed document.

https://www.politico.com/news/2023/01/09/doctors-test-results-patients-00076843

Congress was full of good intentions when it directed the Department of Health and Human Services to make sure patients get their test results as soon as they’re available.

But the implementation of that directive has set off a battle between doctors on one side and HHS and patient advocates on the other, and raised a fundamental question: How should patients get bad news? The debate underscores how medicine’s digital transformation is changing the doctor-patient relationship and upending ingrained practices.

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DFL’ers from the Minnesota House and Senate joined advocates today (Thu) to announce legislation to legalize adult-use cannabis in the state. We talk with a cardiologist of over 40 years to help us understand the Damar Hamlin incident.

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https://knoxradio.com/2023/01/05/mn-dems-introduce-bill-to-legalize-adult-use-cannabis

DFL’ers from the Minnesota House and Senate joined advocates today (Thu) to announce legislation to legalize adult-use cannabis in the state.

Rep. Zach Stephenson, the bill’s House author, says it will create a “safe, well-regulated legal marketplace, including best practices for consumer protection, health, and public safety.”

He said it also includes a “robust expungement program, so people who have disproportionately been caught in the criminal justice system due to cannabis can move on with their lives. Minnesota is ready for legalization.”

Stephenson says current laws do more harm than good.

“State and local governments are spending millions enforcing laws that aren’t helping anyone, money that could be put to far better purposes,” he said. “There is a better way, where we’re honest about cannabis and its impact, and model our laws accordingly.”

The bill had its first reading today (Thu). It was referred to the Commerce Finance and Policy Committee.

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New York has a new take on banning guns, ask the gun manufactures what they know about the harm their product causes. Do you think this is a valid approach?

https://abcnews.go.com/US/city-buffalo-files-kind-lawsuit-gun-industry/story?id=95615548

The city of Buffalo announced Tuesday it has filed a "first of its kind" lawsuit against the gun industry, seven months after a teenager killed 10 people and wounded three others at a Buffalo grocery store.

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Mayor Brandon Bochenski joins me and we talk a new soybean crushing plant that's chosen Grand Forks as it's home! A woman from Meridian Idaho was forced to leave her tiny home a city-code-enforcment officer showed up.

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A company looking to build a $400 million dollar soybean crushing plant has selected Grand Forks as the location for the facility.

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https://news.yahoo.com/woman-had-move-her-tiny-141946741.html

A woman who bought a tiny home is taking legal action against her city, which threatened to fine her $1,000 a day if she continued living in it, because the action left her unhoused.

Chasidy Decker of Meridian, Idaho, couldn't afford to buy a house, so she opted for the 252-square-foot tiny home and arranged to put it on Robert Calacal's property for $600 a month, according to the lawsuit.

A neighbor called the Meridian Police Department when the tiny home arrived on the property and asked whether living in it would be legal.

In May, a day after Decker moved in, a Meridian city-code-enforcement officer threatened both Decker and Calacal with criminal prosecution and fines of $1,000 a day unless she moved out

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Special Guest: Brandon Bochenski .