Walz's office responds to request for
National Guard, State Patrol in Minneapolis
Posted By: voxpopuli, 10/16/2021 12:04:59 PM
A group of Minneapolis neighbors is calling Gov. Tim Walz’s response to a request for help “insufficient.” More than two dozen people who live on the north side sent a letter to the governor in September asking him to send the National Guard and State Patrol to the city to assist Minneapolis Police amid ongoing violence.
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A group of Minneapolis neighbors is calling Gov. Tim Walz’s response to a request for help “insufficient.”
More than two dozen people who live on the north side sent a letter to the governor in September asking him to send the National Guard and State Patrol to the city to assist Minneapolis Police amid ongoing violence.
According to multiple reports, Gruden informed his staff he will resign as head coach after a series of emails showed him delivering racist, homophobic and misogynistic comments in emails during his time at ESPN.
Gruden later announced through the Raiders he was resigning.
City allowed unlicensed 'rooming house'
to continue operating for years despite
warnings, orders 7 replies
to continue operating for years despite
warnings, orders 7 replies
The ceiling above Jaime Steffenson’s bed was cracked and sagging. Burn marks on an electrical socket had her afraid to plug anything into it.
Ron Miller says conditions in his makeshift bedroom in the basement of the same house in Minneapolis were even worse. A lawsuit he filed against the owner this year documented blocked windows, standing water and raw sewage. (snip) ..the city did not file criminal charges against Mohammed Shahidullah until after 5 INVESTIGATES started asking questions last month.
Gunfire exchange among people in 2 SUVs
results in Minneapolis crash that kills bystander 23 replies
results in Minneapolis crash that kills bystander 23 replies
A woman is dead and four others were hospitalized after police said a gunfight between people in two vehicles ended in a crash.
The crash happened late Wednesday near Target Field in Minneapolis.
Police said investigators are checking cameras and gathering evidence to see what led up to the crash. (snip) Witnesses told police people in two vehicles were shooting at each other.
Moments later, those two SUVs crashed at the intersection of Fifth Street and Sixth Avenue North.
One of the vehicles left the road and hit a woman riding a scooter down the sidewalk.
After a battle over the ballot, early voting begins Friday in Minneapolis.
Residents will get to vote on the ballot question on whether to replace the Minneapolis Police Department with a new department of public safety.
The Minnesota Supreme Court reversed a decision blocking the city from counting votes on the question.
The question on the ballot, to which voters respond "yes" or "no," is as follows:
Corporate tax increases are necessary for the U.S. to better compete globally, U.S. Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo told Yahoo Finance Live in an interview. House Democrats are out with a proposal to raise the tax rate on companies with income of at least $5 million to 26.5%.
“If American business is going to compete, we need these investments,”
UPDATE: Emily Claire Hari, who was previously known as Michael Hari and recently said she is transgender, has been sentenced to 53 years in prison for the 2017 bombing of a Bloomington mosque. (snip) The leader of an Illinois anti-government militia group who authorities say masterminded the 2017 bombing of a Minnesota mosque is in a federal court on Monday, awaiting sentencing for several civil rights and hate crimes in an attack that terrified a community.
President Biden called a Black adviser "boy" during a Federal Emergency Management Administration (FEMA) briefing on Monday.
The president used the term while introducing his senior adviser Cedric Richmond, a former Louisiana congressman.
"I'm here with my senior adviser and boy who knows Louisiana very, very well and New Orleans, Cedric Richmond," Biden said at a press briefing with FEMA after Hurricane Ida rocked Louisiana.
Macalester College announced on Monday that they will divest all of their publicly traded oil and gas investments, including from Enbridge, Inc., in response to the student divestment proposal in the protest of the Line 3 tar sands pipeline replacement project.
According to the college, the Board of Trustees of Macalester College decided to:
Divest of all dedicated, publicly traded oil and gas assets, including all shares of Enbridge, Inc.
Wednesday, hundreds of protesters gathered amid a four-day event calling on state and federal leaders to stop the progress of Enbridge Energy’s Line 3 oil pipeline.
Protesters were gathering for the "Treaties not Tar Sands Rally to Stop Line 3" at the Minnesota State Capitol in St. Paul.
"I think my whole life and my whole history is defined by water," Karen Goulet, a member of the White Earth Band of Ojibwe who is helping to lead the rally, said in a statement.
The first group of Afghan refugees fleeing the Taliban arrived Sunday at Fort McCoy in Wisconsin.
According to a news release, special immigration visa applicants, their families and other people at risk arrived at the military installation midway between Sparta and Tomah. More were finalizing their processing at Fort Lee in Virginia.
Around 1,000 service members are working to build out capacity at Fort McCoy in anticipation of more refugees, according to the release.
We've reported on the restructuring of George Floyd Square in south Minneapolis. Now, a neighborhood close to it is looking to reimagine its future. KSTP's Brandi Powell reports on how a community organizer is hoping to celebrate business ownership in the city's Central Neighborhood.
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Throughout August, the risk of dying from Covid-19 was 11 times higher for unvaccinated adults than for fully vaccinated adults in the United States, according to new data published by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Unvaccinated adults faced a six times higher risk of testing positive for Covid-19 throughout the month, and In the last week of August, the risk of being hospitalized was nearly 19 times higher for unvaccinated adults than fully vaccinated adults.
Some states and local jurisdictions have recently started publishing Covid-19 case, death and hospitalization rates by vaccination status on their own dashboards
Nearly a year has passed since the 2020 election, yet there has not been a clear, satisfactory answer to the central mystery: How did a dull, declining Joe Biden manage to get more than 81 million votes and win the presidency? After all, Biden spent most of the pandemic-laced campaign in his Delaware basement and his appearances were marked by sparse crowds and signs he had lost more than a step. Yet he flipped five states Hillary Clinton lost in 2016, including Georgia and Arizona, and racked up 306 electoral votes to Donald Trump’s 232.
Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-IL) on Friday condemned the process that led to the redistricting of his House seat ahead of the next election, calling it “anything but transparent.” “I have proudly served six terms in the U.S. House and it has been an honor to do so,” Kinzinger said. “Following the release of the new congressional maps for Illinois, my team and I will spend some time looking them over and reviewing all of the options, including those outside the House. This redistricting process has been anything but transparent, which comes as no surprise to anyone. I believe the people
Queen advised to drop her daily cocktail;
family friend says 95-year-old does not
appreciate it 39 replies
family friend says 95-year-old does not
appreciate it 39 replies
Queen Elizabeth II, the world's longest-reigning living monarch, is a picture of good health even at 95 years of age. One of the reasons the monarch has aged so gracefully is that she follows the advice of her nutritionists and doctors, but she wasn't very happy when she was recently asked to drop her daily cocktail. (Snip) As per various reports, the queen enjoys a gin cocktail in the morning, followed by a glass of wine or champagne with lunch, and another glass of champagne plus a dry martini in the evening. Her late cousin Margaret Rhodes said that the
China launched a new hypersonic nuclear-capable missile that circled the entire globe at low-orbit in August, the Financial Times reported.
US Intelligence and US Military officials were left stunned.
“We have no idea how they did this,” a source told the Financial Times.
According to the report, the missile missed its target by about 24 miles and caught US intel by surprise.
Earlier this year, a satellite image showed China had expanded its nuclear missile silo field.
“Identified via satellite imagery, the new missile base in China’s Xinjiang region may eventually include 110 silos, said the report released Monday by the Federation of American Scientists (FAS).
Former President Bill Clinton has been released from a Southern California hospital on Sunday after he spent five nights receiving treatment for a urological infection.
Clinton and his wife, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, left the University of California Irvine Medical Center in Orange, just southeast of Los Angeles, as they held each other's arms. The former president shook hands with hospital staff as he departed the facility alongside his wife of 46 years. Just before his release, the former first lady was seen being escorted to the entrance of the facility early on Sunday morning.
Philadelphia became the first major city to ban police traffic stops of low-level motor vehicle offenses, a tactic which critics claim disproportionately affects black people.The Philadelphia City Council passed two Driving Equity bills on Thursday that Mayor James Kenney is is expected to sign into law this week. The law creates an open searchable database recording traffic stops and prohibits police officers from stopping drivers for minor offenses by reclassifying several offenses as secondary violations.Secondary violations citations are issued to drivers by mail,
Dozens of climate activists have been arrested after they clashed with police in Washington DC and forced their way into the Interior Department building in scenes that some have called reminiscent of the US Capitol riot.
An Interior Department spokeswoman said a group of demonstrators rushed the lobby on Thursday, injuring multiple security officers, at least of whom was taken to a nearby hospital.
Police and protesters clashed outside the building, and officers used Tasers and batons against several unarmed protesters, representatives for the activist group said. The group said 55 participants were arrested.
The dramatic scenes came during five days of demonstrations in the capital
WH’s Psaki Defends Inflation — ‘Good
Thing’ Because It Means ‘More People
Are Buying Goods’ 31 replies
Thing’ Because It Means ‘More People
Are Buying Goods’ 31 replies
White House press secretary Jen Psaki said Friday on CNN’s “The Lead” that rising prices were a “good thing” because it meant more people were buying goods.Anchor Jake Tapper said, “Inflation is skyrocketing as I don’t need to tell you. The prices for home heating costs, cars, groceries, furniture, rent, gasoline are hitting Americans right in the wallet. The White House response has been generally to say, ‘Hey, inflation shows we’re coming out of the recession. It’s a good sign.'”He continued, “President Biden’s chief of staff Ron Klain enthusiastically retreated an economist who said in part ‘Most of the economic problems, inflation, supply chains, et cetera, are high-class problems.’
President Joe Biden and his wife Jill enjoyed an Italian seafood dinner at a Michelin-starred Washington DC restaurant on Saturday evening. The Bidens dressed up for what the White House dubbed as a 'date night' at Fiola Mare in Washington Harbor.The couple looked loved up and held hands as they made their way into the restaurant, followed by secret service downed in black suits and black face masks. They had earlier attended church at Holy Trinity Catholic Church in Georgetown. The date came on 'Sweetest Day' - a holiday celebrated in the Midwest and Florida to celebrate romantic deeds and expressions.
President Joe Biden visited a daycare center in Connecticut on Friday, promoting his multitrillion-dollar spending bills that would make the federal government subsidize child and elder care.
The president argued that his “Build Back Better” bill was focused on human infrastructure to get the economy running again.
“How can we compete in a world if millions of American parents, especially moms, can’t be part of the work force?” Biden asked. “Because they can’t afford the cost of child care or elder care?”
Biden said the cost of childcare in America made it difficult for both parents to work.
Former President Bill Clinton was hospitalized Tuesday for a urological infection, a source close to the situation told Fox News.
By Thursday evening, the former president, 75, remained hospitalized for monitoring at the University of California Irvine Medical Center in Orange, California, according to spokesperson Angel Urena. (snip)According to Dr. Marc Siegel, professor of medicine at NYU Langone Health and a Fox News medical contributor, "Urinary infections are more common in men at older ages, sometimes involving prostate, sometimes not. They can spread rapidly because of a lot of blood flow to the bladder and kidneys and enter the blood stream causing urosepsis."
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Part 1 of 2 THIS is what AMERICANS and concerned people in Murderapolis want! see part 2 as to what Red Walz is providing