Here's the latest news from across the state to start your day. ☕
WEATHER
🌬️ Blustery winds will howl across the state Thursday. Northwest winds will blow at 15-30 mph with gusts as high as 40 mph to even 50 mph in spots.
🌨️ Snow will develop late Friday night into Saturday with the heaviest falling midday Saturday across central Minnesota. Snowfall totals could be the highest we've seen this winter season yet.
A standoff that has stretched on for more than three weeks appears to be ending in the Minnesota House. Sources familiar with the agreement said the deal gives Republican Rep. Lisa Demuth the path to become House speaker for the entire two-year term.
Dannah Nephew is Ojibwe from the White Earth Nation. As a third-year student in the program, she wants to help upcoming Native American students feel welcome in an industry she says has a complicated history with tribal communities.
⛏️ Stauber reintroduces bill to reverse mining ban near Boundary Waters, return leases to Twin Metals. Republican U.S. Rep. Pete Stauber has reintroduced legislation to overturn a 20-year mining ban near the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness that was imposed two years ago under the Biden administration.
📃 Some Venezuelans in Minnesota face uncertainty amid end of 'Temporary Protected Status.' Venezuelans under TPS who received the protections in 2023 will lose their temporary status in April. Some who fled Venezuela and are in Minnesota fear what will happen if they have to go back. 🏛️ What Simon says in House goes, but temporary chamber leader tiptoes through intensely partisan terrain. The Democrat has held public office for two decades and served as the top election official in Minnesota for half of that time. Now he finds himself in the middle of the party power fight in the Minnesota House.
🏳️⚧️ State lawmaker behind 'trans refuge' law blasts Trump order on trans athletes in school. Rep. Leigh Finke, DFL-St. Paul, says the order is saying that transgender people should not be allowed to be active members of society.
