Category: Minnesota

Minnesota Hospital Shuts Down ER and Urgent Care Amid Nurse Strike

A hospital in Minnesota confirmed it temporarily shut down its emergency room and urgent care facility due to a nurse strike. Allina Health, located in Plymouth, said in a statement that due to the strike, emergency and urgent care services at its WestHealth location were suspended from Sunday morning until Wednesday. “No other services on the…


Judge Denies Request by Anonymous Minnesota Health Care Workers to Block Vaccine Mandate

A federal judge has rejected a request anonymously filed by a group of 188 workers to block their employers’ COVID-19 vaccination mandates. Following a nearly three-hour hearing, U.S. District Judge Nancy Brasel on Tuesday said that those behind the lawsuit would have to reveal their identities to their employers, who are named as defendants in…


1 Killed, 14 Wounded in Shootout at Minnesota Bar

ST. PAUL, Minn.—A shootout at a busy bar in St. Paul, Minnesota, early Sunday left a woman dead and 14 other people wounded, authorities said. The shooting happened shortly after midnight at the Seventh Street Truck Park bar. Police said preliminary information indicated several people fired gunshots. Police arrested three men who were being treated…


Minnesota Supreme Court Denies Chauvin’s Request for Public Defender

Minnesota’s top court on Wednesday denied former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin’s request for a public defender to represent him in his bid to appeal his conviction and sentence in George Floyd’s death last year. Chauvin was convicted in April of second-degree unintentional murder, third-degree murder, and second-degree manslaughter in Floyd’s death. He was later…


Minnesota School Removes ‘F’ Grade and Allows Retests to Combat ‘Systemic Racism’

A Minnesota middle school said it will no longer allow teachers to give students an “F” grade for “failure”, as part of the school’s effort to tackle “systemic racism.” In a video shared on YouTube, Sunrise Park Middle School Principal Christina Pierre explained that the new grading system will replace the “F” with an “I,”…


Nearly 200 Minnesota Healthcare Workers Sue Employers Over Vaccine Mandates

Almost 200 Minnesota healthcare workers sued their employers in a bid to block COVID-19 vaccine mandates at their facilities. The lawsuit, filed on behalf of unnamed workers in various hospital systems across the state, identifies about two dozen healthcare institutions, hospitals, and federal officials as defendants. That includes the Mayo Clinic, Fairview Health Services, University of…


Minnesota Supreme Court Allows Proposal to Dismantle, Replace Police Department on Ballot

The Minnesota Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that voters in Minneapolis will be able to have their say on the city’s police department on the local ballot. It overturned a lower court ruling that struck down a proposed ballot initiative asking voters to replace the city’s police department with a new Department of Public Safety…


Police: Case of 4 Found Fatally Shot in Wisconsin a Mystery

MENOMONIE, Wis.—Four people found slain in an abandoned SUV in a western Wisconsin cornfield had been shot and were all from Minnesota, authorities said Tuesday of a case they described as a mystery. Preliminary results of autopsies performed Monday by the Ramsey County Medical Examiner’s Office showed the two men and two women all died…


Parent Group Lawsuit Seeks Statewide Mask Mandate in Minnesota Schools

A group of parents sued the state of Minnesota asking a judge to order Gov. Tim Walz (D) to impose a statewide school mask mandate. The group filed the complaint (pdf) in Ramsey County District Court on Friday. The parents want Walz to declare a state of emergency and use the authority to impose a…


Learn from Minnesota: How to Run for School Board…. And Win!

Commentary It’s fair to say the rise of Critical Race Theory—the idea that one’s race, rather than one’s character, is the most important thing in one’s life—as the governing principle in many, if not most, U.S. schools at all levels has both astonished and alerted parents across the country to what has happened to our…