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No one’s stopping them from moving

Rep. Jeremy Munson, R-Lake Crystal, has introduced a bill in the Minnesota Legislature that would allow some western Minnesota counties to secede from Minnesota and join up with South Dakota. Well, isn’t that special? We’re not sure what those counties would gain from joining South Dakota. There are tax breaks, to be sure. South Dakota doesn’t levy personal income tax, its sales taxes are a point lower than Minnesota’s, though property tax rates are higher than Minnesota’s according to the Tax Foundation. South Dakota doesn’t require you to wear a face mask, it didn’t ...

Lawmakers need to re-examine sex offender registry

When this mother speaks on this particular issue, know that every one of her words is valuable and chosen carefully. Patty Wetterling lost a son to the actions of a sex offender. But she now has misgivings about a sex offender registry she helped create. Her concerns are worthy of attention. Wetterling’s son Jacob was abducted and killed in 1989 in central Minnesota by an area man. After Jacob’s disappearance, Wetterling worked to establish a sex offender registry that would help flag offenders for law enforcement. (The man who 27 years later admitted to Jacob’s abduction and ...

The Minnesota Supreme Court issued a ruling, based on the state’s laws, that a woman who was raped while she was drunk should not be considered mentally incapacitated, because she had consumed the alcohol willingly. Her attacker did not force her to consume alcohol against her will. Her attacker, therefore, is not liable for a more serious felony charge, though he could be charged with a gross misdemeanor charge. The man has been granted a new trial. Well, if that’s what the state’s law says, it’s time to fix the law. A person who is too intoxicated to know what they are ...

Voting rights battle

The battle over who gets to vote and how they get to vote is turning nasty. In a recent invitation-only call to Republican state lawmakers, the Associated Press reports, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) urged them to resist Democratic efforts to pass H.R. 1 and expand voting rights “to illegal aliens and child molesters.” “H.R. 1’s only objective is to ensure that Democrats can never again lose another election, that they will win and maintain control of the House of Representatives and the Senate and of the state legislatures for the next century,” Cruz is said to have told the group ...

Voting rights battle

The battle over who gets to vote and how they get to vote is turning nasty. In a recent invitation-only call to Republican state lawmakers, the Associated Press reports, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) urged them to resist Democratic efforts to pass H.R. 1 and expand voting rights “to illegal aliens and child molesters.” “H.R. 1’s only objective is to ensure that Democrats can never again lose another election, that they will win and maintain control of the House of Representatives and the Senate and of the state legislatures for the next century,” Cruz is said to have told the group ...

Boulder suspect shouldn’t have been sold a gun

The family of a suspect in the mass shooting in a Boulder, Colorado grocery store on Tuesday told investigators they thought he suffered some kind of mental illness, that he had delusions and sometimes believed people were following or chasing him. And yet, six days before the shooting, Ahmad Al Aliwi Alissa, 21, was able to buy the AR-15 he used to kill 10 people, including a police officer who was first to respond to the shooting scene. We stated before, after the mass shooting at the Allina Medical Clinic in Buffalo by a man who is now about to undergo a court-ordered mental ...