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KSTP Created: December 19, 2020 08:35 PM
A group of parents suing Gov. Tim Walz over youth sports says it will continue fighting the case in court after a judge upheld the governor s ability to put organized sports on hold during the pandemic.
Judge John Tunheim of the U.S. District Court of Minnesota denied Let Them Play MN s case late Friday night, and the group says it will appeal to the Eight Circuit Court of Appeals.
The group claims that Walz is targeting false or misleading information regarding youth sports and COVID-19, and the original complaint states that kids shouldn t accept arbitrary and irrational burdens.
Updated 11:39 a.m.
Downward trends in the trajectory of new COVID-19 cases, hospital admissions and test positivity rates in Minnesota continued Sunday.
Those encouraging signs, however, came as state health officials reported another 70 COVID-19 deaths in the state, raising December’s record monthly death toll to 1,257.
Averaged over the past week, the number of deaths reported each day is also dropping that number was 58 on Sunday, down from as high as 67 last week. But that average is still far above figures seen less than two months ago. On Nov. 1, the average daily death toll was 18.
And any recent improvements in COVID-19 stats could be jeopardized by upcoming holiday gatherings.
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Indoor restaurants and bars will stay shut down, but fitness clubs and other venues will reopen under a new plan by Gov. Tim Walz to limit the spread of COVID-19 and buy time for distribution of vaccine against the infectious disease.
Minnesota s infections rate has been declining since Nov. 11, but Walz said restrictions are needed, particularly in group settings that have fueled broader spread of the coronavirus that causes COVID-19. This is a killer virus that we ve learned much about and have a lot of tools to fight, Walz said on Wednesday, but we ve got a little left to fight.
A law put in place will help give people a second chance at getting a better job and removing that negative stigma of having a felony on your record.
This expungement program has been pushed before locally by Flint Mayor Sheldon Neeley and now it s gaining even more momentum.