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Lawmakers in 10 states work towards challenging mass incarceration and addressing collateral consequences. Reforms include compassionate release policies, drug policy reforms, and voting rights expansion. Youth justice is also a focus. Comprehensive reforms still needed to transform the
Hospitals and health care facilities across the state are struggling with severe staffing shortages, and patients are the ones bearing the brunt, - State. Sen. Carla Nelson
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NEW ULM Greg Peterson, the Brown County Veteran’s Service Officer and Minnesota Association of County Veterans Service Officers (MACVSO) President, testified before the Minnesota Veterans & Military Affairs Finance & Policy Committee Feb. 25 at the State Capitol via Zoom.
“As president of the service officers (association), I felt compelled to be the lead testifier, and since we recently attended the Robert Niemann Memorial at Soldier’s Rest (at the New Ulm City Cemetery), I knew how much his daughter Ann Bakkensen has worked for 30 years on the national level with POW/MIA efforts,” Peterson said.
He testified on behalf of Minnesota Senate File 1041, a resolution memorializing the United States government to bring home every American prisoner of war/missing in action veteran (POW/MIA).
The Small Craft Brewers Coalition in Minnesota is seeking legislation that would grant them the ability to sell 12 and 16 ounce cans of beer from their breweries. Current state law prohibits those sales due to an annual production cap.