Minnesota Matters

This week: new legislative session, incidents of white supremacist propaganda up in MN, drug seizures up statewide in 2019, Gopher baseball preview.

In January of 2020, Gov. Mike Parson met with Ft. Leonard Wood soldiers and spouses to talk about their roles in the workforce and to tout the legislative bill to honor occupational licenses that were granted in other states.

The City of Park Hills is planning a celebration to honor its hometown hero of World War Two -- Darrell S. Cole who died at the age of 24 and is now buried in Farmington. The USS Cole naval destroyer was named for him.

Features Park Hills City Administrator Mark McFarland.

This week: impeachment/Line 3, Iowa caucuses/Amy Klobuchar, Polar Plunge/Special Olympics with Abby Pearson, Twins spring training preview with Cory Provus.

In his 2020 State of Judiciary Address to the Legislature,

Missouri Supreme Court Chief Justice George W. Draper the third said it is a priority to serve those who have served the nation- through veterans treatment courts.

The new legislative year begins in Missouri and some lawmakers hope to pass bills to help those who help the state's military veterans.

District 47 lawmaker and marine veteran Chuck Basye wants to use some of the medical marijuana tax revenue to go to a veterans law clinic at the University of Missouri.

Features Rocky Sickmann, orginally of Krakow Missouri, in Franklin County. He was held in the Iranian Hostage Crisis of 1979 and speaks of its impact on him.

The Veterans Community Project in Kansas City Missouri begins 2020 with a new tiny house village and community center.

Four years ago, the project began - a private, non-profit that helps homeless veterans get back into a place to live—and back on track to self-sufficiency.

Features Chief Operating Officer Matt Bonnot.

The B-2 is based out of Whiteman Air Force Base in Missouri and celebrated its 30th year of flight in 2019. Its flyover is a popular feature of the Rose Bowl each year. (With flyover sound)

Service members of all races, religions, and backgrounds fought in WWI, but the Medal of Honor was not awarded to minority veterans until the 1990s. Congress has authorized more recent reviews for minority service members from World War II to the present, but the only review undertaken for WWI took place in 1919 – and no minority veterans received the Medal of Honor as a result of that review.