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Newspaper won second in general excellence Feb 13, 2021 The Messenger editorial and advertising staffs have won more than 20 Iowa Newspaper Association awards, accumulating the most total points in the history of The Messenger’s participation in the contest. The awards were announced Thursday during a virtual presentation. “These statewide awards reflect the hard work our people put in,” said Publisher Terry Christensen. “I’m extremely proud and excited for our newsroom and adverti...

As a Brisbane teenager in Sir Joh’s stifling, authoritarian, corrupt police state, I’d buy a Nation Review each week to read Mungo on federal politics. His dark humour grounded in passionate belief gave me a way to see a Queensland politics that had hope in it. When I mentioned this on Twitter after Mungo died, several Tweeps said yep, that’s what they did and how they felt too. My big cause now is the urgent need for a strong federal ICAC. There’s only one way to make it happen, citiz...

Will Gov. Walz extend Minnesota virus restrictions? Business closures expire Jan. 11, so an announcement is expected soon.  January 2, 2021 — 1:48pm Text size Copy shortlink: Gov. Tim Walz is expected to announce this week whether Minnesota restaurants, bars and entertainment venues that have been under forced closure since the end of November will be able to reopen soon. Using emergency powers, Walz ordered the businesses closed t...

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Despite plenty of sound and fury Monday, only 17 lawmakers voted against a bill to provide $216 million in COVID-19 relief to businesses impaired by the governor’s Nov. 20 executive order. The bill, Senate File 31 — passed during the seventh and final special session of 2020 — also includes a 13-week extension to unemployment benefits for about 125,000 Minnesotans. Those benefits were set to expire by the day after Christmas. Gov. Tim Walz was expected to sign it Tuesday. Much of Monday�...

Despite plenty of sound and fury Monday, only 17 lawmakers voted against a bill to provide $216 million in COVID-19 relief to businesses impaired by the governor’s Nov. 20 executive order. The bill, Senate File 31 — passed during the seventh and final special session of 2020 — also includes a 13-week extension to unemployment benefits for about 125,000 Minnesotans. Those benefits were set to expire by the day after Christmas. Gov. Tim Walz was expected to sign it Tuesday. Much of Monday�...

The House and Senate agreed Monday on a proposal to provide $216.5 million to help businesses that have experienced a sales decline. As part of the years seventh special session — necessitated by Gov. Tim Walz extending his emergency powers in response to COVID-19 — members also agreed on a plan to extend unemployment benefits to applicants who have exhausted all available state and federal unemployment benefits. Following the 117-13 House vote — after 62-4 passage by the Senate ...

Updated: 7:57 a.m. Minnesota lawmakers passed legislation Monday night designed to help businesses and workers hurt by the COVID-19 pandemic. The measure approved in a special session includes grants to struggling small businesses and an extension of unemployment benefits for out-of-work Minnesotans.  Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle pushed for the COVID-19 relief, but Republicans made it clear that DFL Gov. Tim Walz is the one who put businesses in financial peril with his executive order...

Copy shortlink: The Minnesota Legislature late Monday night approved a COVID-19 relief package, providing aid to struggling businesses and extending unemployment insurance to workers whose benefits could dry up after the holidays. The $242 million deal will funnel grants directly to bars, restaurants and entertainment venues that Gov. Tim Walz ordered closed for four weeks in mid-November as a second wave of COVID-19 cases hit the state. It now goes to Walz, who said he ...