“Ecstatic to have this land to farm
on.” A Hmong farm in Dakota County is
saved by bonding bill
Posted By: voxpopuli, 6/17/2023 3:17:49 PM
The roar of Highway 52 in Dakota County is just a right turn from a rural enclave. “This is a collective farm of Hmong farmers,” says Janssen Hang, the co-founder and executive director of the HAFA farm in Vermillion. “A collective farm is working in community with one another.” (snip) “I am extremely happy and ecstatic to have this land to farm on,” he says, through an interpreter. Xiong, 64, is among 100 Hmong farmers.. (snip) The proposed interchange was not cheap — with a $35 million price tag.
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“Ecstatic to have this land to farm
on.” A Hmong farm in Dakota County is
saved by bonding bill 4 replies
on.” A Hmong farm in Dakota County is
saved by bonding bill 4 replies
The roar of Highway 52 in Dakota County is just a right turn from a rural enclave.
“This is a collective farm of Hmong farmers,” says Janssen Hang, the co-founder and executive director of the HAFA farm in Vermillion. “A collective farm is working in community with one another.” (snip) “I am extremely happy and ecstatic to have this land to farm on,” he says, through an interpreter.
Xiong, 64, is among 100 Hmong farmers.. (snip) The proposed interchange was not cheap — with a $35 million price tag.
Possibly the most talked about bill during this year’s legislative session, the recreational marijuana bill, was signed into law on Tuesday.
Joined by state lawmakers and other advocates, including former Gov. Jesse Ventura, Gov. Tim Walz signed the legislation during a ceremony at the State Capitol to make Minnesota the 23rd state to legalize recreational marijuana.
“Jimi Hendrix is looking down on Minnesota smiling today,” Ventura said while pumping his fist.
A pro-Trump rap group’s single, titled “Boycott Target,” has exploded online, racking up nearly three million views and climbing to number #6 on the iTunes Charts.
Forgiato Blow, Jimmy Levy, Nick Nittoli, and Stoney Dudebro created the hit song, boasting lyrics about retail giant Target “targeting” your children with Satanic and sexualized goods.
Mayhem erupted at a south Minneapolis high school Thursday evening during a planned Somali cultural event and performance that resulted in fights, a stabbing, and shots fired.
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Goodbye, Minnesota
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I was born in Minneapolis, graduated from the University of Minnesota and have lived in the Twin Cities essentially my entire life. So when I sold my business and took early retirement in 2017, planning to get away from the Minnesota winters, I always thought I'd remain a resident of the state I love that had provided me so much. (snip) The last reason I'm leaving Minnesota is because of a lack of hope. I'm a realist, and realism tells me there's nothing more I can do to help prevent Minnesota's decline.
Uber, Lyft call on Gov. Walz to veto legislation
that would give rideshare drivers pay raise 2 replies
that would give rideshare drivers pay raise 2 replies
Lyft and Uber officials are calling on Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz to veto legislation that would give rideshare drivers pay raises and job protection, saying the provisions would lead to fee hikes and force the companies to stop serving parts of the state. (snip) f the legislation becomes law, rideshare drivers would be paid $1.45 a mile — one of the highest rates in the United States — and drivers would be guaranteed 34 cents per minute. (snip) The company said 60% of Lyft rides in Minnesota start or end in low-income areas, and the majority of riders earn below the state's median income.
The Minneapolis DFL Ward 10 convention descended into chaos as groups supporting rival candidates engaged in pushing and shoving, which led to the session's adjournment.
Video shot at the event shows current City Councilwoman Aisha Chughtai's supporters were on the stage as a group of people backing challenger Nasri Warsame protested.
At the Capri Theater in north Minneapolis Saturday, there was a celebration of a new state law.
A law that restores voting rights to Minnesotans who’ve served time in jail or prison.
“It’s long overdue that we’ve corrected this injustice,” declared Antonio Williams, of St. Paul. “I think it’s long overdue. We talk about our democracy, we talk about inclusion, but we haven’t truly lived it as a government.”
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President Joe Biden is expected to sign an executive order on Tuesday aiming to increase the number of background checks to buy guns, promote better and more secure firearms storage.. (snip) But Biden has been emboldened by the midterms after his regular talk of gun control didn’t result in massive losses, and he’s expected to continue to push for strong changes as he inches toward a 2024 run, his aides say.
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Nurses at Children’s Minnesota are working to ensure health care workers understand how to properly care for textured hair. Over the last year and a half, the hospital system has implemented hair care training and added products for textured hair. (snip) The hospital has launched training videos to teach health care workers how to care for different hair textures and how to approach the conversation with families.
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The utter failure of Merrick Garland
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Merrick Garland began his tenure as attorney general with the stated intention of restoring faith in the Justice Department and the rule of law. By that standard, Garland has been a failure.
In fact, if anything, the crisis of faith surrounding his department has only deepened on his watch, and he bears some of the blame. Polls show that half the country distrusts the FBI. A recent poll by Harvard CAPS-Harris found that 70 percent are either very or somewhat concerned about election interference by the FBI and other intelligence agencies. An additional 71 percent agreed that changes post-2016 had not done enough to prevent further interference and
Five people were killed and at least 42 were injured in multiple shootings as violence erupted across the country over the holiday weekend.
A shooting at a Juneteenth celebration in a suburban Illinois town left one person dead after at least 20 people were shot outside a shopping center overnight.
It happened around 12:30 a.m. on Route 83 near Honeysuckle Lane in Willowbrook, Illinois, Battalion Chief Joe Ostrander with the Tri-State Fire Protection District told WLS.
Monday, the nineteenth of June, is our newest federal holiday (just 2 years old), Juneteenth, and federal workers get yet another day’s pay without having to work for it. Since the federal workforce is heavily overrepresented with black workers (18.2% of the federal workforce versus 12.6% of the population), the words “disparate impact” come to mind, benefitting African Americans with a paid holiday that not too many other employees get, judging by the fact that I was able to book two appointments with service providers tomorrow before I even realized Monday was holiday.
The transgender issue makes everyone crazy. That’s the only explanation I can give for the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) berating the state of Florida for executing Duane Owen, who was convicted of raping and murdering a 14-year-old babysitter and a 38-year-old mother of two.
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Confusion as Biden Blurts Out ‘God Save
the Queen, Man’ at End of Gun Control
Speech in Connecticut 22 replies
the Queen, Man’ at End of Gun Control
Speech in Connecticut 22 replies
Joe Biden on Friday left Americans scratching their heads with an off-the-cuff remark that was, well, royally unusual for a US president: “God save the queen, man!”
What he meant, which queen he was referring to, and why he threw in what sounded like the traditional patriotic British cry, no one could immediately tell.Queen Elizabeth II, whom Biden met, died in September 2022 and was replaced by a king — her son Charles.Biden had just completed an impassioned speech at the National Safer Communities Summit in Connecticut on getting Congress to toughen gun ownership laws when he made the remark from the stage. (Tweet/Video)
Democrat and Ranking member of the House Weaponization Subcommittee says the quiet part out loud. Democrat Delegate to the House of Representatives from the US Virgin Islands Stacey Plaskett appeared to make a Freudian slip during her latest appearance on MSNBC. During her latest appearance on The Sunday Show Plaskett stated, “Having Trump not only having the codes but now having the classified information for Americans and being able to put that out and share it in his resort with anyone and everything who comes through should be terrifying to all Americans.” Plaskett then continued, “He needs to be (shot) — Stopped.”
Willowbrook, Ill. (CBS) - Police are investigating after one person was killed and 19 others were hurt in a mass shooting in southwest suburban Willowbrook overnight.
We're learning it happened during a Juneteenth celebration among young people there.
CBS 2's Asal Rezaei reported from the scene with what we know so far.
Police say the shooting happened around 12:30 a.m. while a crowd gathered for a party in a parking lot off Route 83 in Willowbrook.
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Frank Luntz Needs to Retire
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Overrated political pollster Frank Luntz admitted last week that he was wrong to prematurely dismiss a Trump comeback. "Not only can Donald Trump win the GOP primary again, but he can also win the presidency again," Luntz tweeted.
Luntz has always struck me as a pretend statistician whose real role is to shill for whatever the Republican side of the Uniparty needs voters to support. He peddles Deep State lies to ordinary Americans as truth. He wears a bad toupee, eats his feelings, and is more believable as Chris Farley's "man in a van down by the river" than House speaker McCarthy's former landlord.
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35 MILLION of TAXPAYER DOLLARS to fund this @$#% so these indigents can sell a bushel of tomatoes at a farmers market