Daily Digest for November 30, 2020 Posted at 7:45 a.m. by Michael Olson |
Good morning. Faulting inaction in Washington, governors and state lawmakers are racing to get pandemic relief to small-business owners, the unemployed, renters and others whose livelihoods have been upended by the widening coronavirus outbreak. ( AP)
Budget forecast to set tone for COVID-19 relief talks Minnesota has been on a budget rollercoaster in 2020, lurching from projected surpluses to steep deficits to revenue upswings more recently.
A new forecast due Tuesday will offer the latest turn. And it will dictate how talks around a business and worker relief package will go as Gov. Tim Walz pushes for a deal that could be ratified by lawmakers soon.
The COVID-19 pandemic has made it exceedingly difficult to predict the state’s finances. “It will not be the simplest of forecasts,” said Minnesota Management and Budget Commissioner Jim Schowalter.
In International Falls, a rejection of backyard chickens It was a contentious election season in 2020, but in the far northern Minnesota border city of International Falls, the political arguments this fall weren’t about the presidential race.
They were about chickens.
Christopher Krebs, who led the federal government's efforts to secure the 2020 election, was fired by President Donald Trump last month for saying the election went smoothly and with no signs of cheating or interference.
In reflecting on whether that was the right decision, considering how such a statement would contradict Trump's baseless claims of fraud and hacking, Krebs told NPR he has no regrets.
"It was the right thing to do in the name of democracy," Krebs said in an interview with NPR's Morning Edition host Steve Inskeep.
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