The Minnesota Department of Health says it likely will lay off 150 to 200 people, because of funding cuts at the federal level.  MDH says the federal government has terminated about 220 million dollars in grants to MDH related to the COVID pandemic.

A Twin Cities nonprofit investigated alongside Feeding Our Future is fighting to resume taking part in a taxpayer-funded food program.

Members of the two largest state employees unions are pushing back on a plan that will require public employees to be in-person more frequently.  Leaders with both the Minnesota Association of Professional Employees and the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees are asking Governor Walz to rescind his requirement that employees return to the office at least 50 percent of the time.

The Minneapolis City Council has passed a resolution directing about 640-thousand dollars of public safety funding to violence interruption services for the Cedar Riverside and Elliot Park areas.

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