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Editor's note: This is the latest in a series of biweekly columns from the Becker County Master Gardeners, who are part of the University of Minnesota Extension.
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Minnesota lawmakers passed 31 laws this spring, even if they didn t finish drafting a new two-year budget.
The new policies included responses to the COVID-19 pandemic, such as a law allowing dentists to administer COVID-19 vaccines.
And the new laws also included changes to the state s medical marijuana statute and a new law to keep babies with their incarcerated mothers for the first year after birth.
The Legislature will return to St. Paul in mid-June to pass a state budget and finalize other work.
The first law of the year extended a policy allowing couples to apply for marriage licenses remotely, rather than in person, from January through May because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Twin Cities trash is piling up so quickly, 4 landfills may need to expand
Waste generation in the metro area was up 30% in the past year.
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Twin Cities residents garbage is piling up so quickly, its landfills are running out of space. The immediate fix, the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) says, is to make four south metro landfills larger.
The agency this week detailed its proposed short-term solution to handle the flow of garbage going from area homes to nearby dumps. It involves expanding the garbage capacity at four landfills in the area by a total of 5.6 million tons, which would be allocated in this manner: