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The city of Minneapolis and the Justice Department have reached an agreement on additional court-ordered oversight of the police department, this time by a federal judge.
As MPR News correspondent Matt Sepic reports, the new consent decree follows a similar state-level agreement already in effect.
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Minnesota lawmakers passed several laws that strengthen tenant rights last session, including protections for survivors of domestic violence and residents who want to organize tenants rights associations.
Juan Luis Rivera-Reyes, the coalition organizer for Equity in Place, a housing advocacy group, joined MPR News host Nina Moini to talk about some of these new laws.
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A new children’s book by a Twin Cities author is out Tuesday. It’s called “Saturday Morning at the ‘Shop” and it’s the debut book for Keenan Jones, who is a middle school English teacher in the metro. He joined MPR News host Nina Moini to talk about the book and how it came to be.
Jones has several book launch events coming up, including one Jan. 11 in downtown Minneapolis and another Jan. 18 in Duluth.
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Fires at encampments across Minneapolis have once again brought to the forefront efforts to find solutions for unhoused people in the city. We also hear the latest on a new agreement requiring federal oversight of the Minneapolis Police Department.
A wide range of new measures intended to protect renters are now in effect. We find out how these laws could impact victims of domestic violence and recent immigrants.
Minnesota is seeing a housing shortage, especially in the Twin Cities and on the North Shore. We learn how a new Trump administration could impact the state's housing market.
And we meet a Twin Cities author whose debut children's book out today highlights Black barbershops.
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Minnesota, like the rest of the country, is grappling with a deepening housing shortage. It's an issue that started way back during the 2008 financial crisis, where housing production slowed to a crawl. Experts say the market is still feeling those effects.
Municipal, state and federal government leaders have pitched a number of strategies to get more houses built and slow the climbing prices of already existing houses. President-elect Donald Trump has ideas of his own. For a preview of what housing policy could look like under Trump, MPR News host Nina Moini talks with Andy Babula, Director of the Real Estate program at St. Thomas University in St. Paul.
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Amid the cold weather there have been a string of fires at encampments in Minneapolis. Two encampment fires ignited Monday just six blocks apart. Both were in the Midtown Phillips neighborhood in south Minneapolis.
At the larger of the two encampments, Minneapolis fire officials say propane tanks exploded, causing a large plume of black smoke to rise over the city. At the other encampment, they were able to put out the fire before any explosions occurred.
These incidents follow another fire under similar circumstances less than a month ago, where propane tanks exploded at an encampment in the same neighborhood.
Advocates for the homeless say more than 200 people were displaced in Monday’s fires. Minneapolis fire officials say they did not have an official count.
Minneapolis council member Jason Chavez represents the area where the encampment fires happened. He joined MPR News host Nina Moini to talk about solutions for unhoused people in Minneapolis.
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In the highly anticipated match-up between the Minnesota Vikings and Detroit Lions Sunday night, the Vikings blinked. Minnesota lost 31-9 and now goes into the playoffs as the number five seed, out of seven. Detroit got the number one spot.
Now the Vikings are looking ahead to next week’s game against the Los Angeles Rams, the only other team besides Detroit that has beat them this season. It’s a tricky way to start the playoffs. Wally Langfellow and Eric Nelson joined MPR News host Nina Moini to talk about it.
Wally Langfellow is the founder of Minnesota Score Sports Magazine and co-host of the sports talk show 10-Thousand Takes. Eric Nelson is the other host of that show and Minnesota Vikings NFL reporter for CBS' Eye on Football and Sirius XM.
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Congress met in Washington D.C. to certify Donald Trump’s re-election Monday. It’s on the same day that a mob of his supporters stormed the Capitol four years ago. We hear from Sen. Amy Klobuchar about new rules in place for the day’s process.
Minneapolis leaders are voting Monday on a federal consent decree that would mandate extensive reform to the Minneapolis Police Department.
A new law in Minnesota requires ticket sellers to list the full price of a ticket before fans get to checkout. We hear how that’s impacting local venues around the state.
Did you see the weekend’s Vikings game? It was a hard one to watch. We get the breakdown from our sports contributors on Sunday night’s game plus a recap on the Gopher bowl win.
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You have probably had this experience when buying a ticket for a concert or sporting event. As you’re clicking through the online ticketing process, the price you originally saw for your ticket nearly doubles by the time you are ready to give the vendor your credit card information. It’s a common problem across many ticketing platforms, and it’s causing people to spend much more than they intended. That’s changed now that a new state law has gone into effect. It’s known as the Taylor Swift bill. And it requires sellers to list the full price, including fees, on their website before buyers get to checkout.
The bill’s author, State Rep. Kelly Moller, said the inspiration for the bill came from her experience trying to secure tickets to Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour in Minneapolis two years ago. She wasn’t alone in her frustrations — thousands of fans couldn’t get tickets and some paid upwards of 70 times face value to secure tickets.
It prompted lawmakers across the country to introduce bills similar to Moller’s, which was fittingly identified as House File 1989 during session, a number many fans know as both the year Swift was born and the name of her fifth studio album.
Todd Duesing, Hennepin Arts CEO and president, joined MPR News host Nina Moini to talk about the implications this law will have for fans and local venues in Minnesota. Duesing testified in support of the bill at the Legislature last session.
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The Minneapolis City Council is in a closed door session Monday to discuss a new agreement with federal officials which would mandate reforms to the city’s police department.
MPR News reporter Estelle Timar-Wilcox has been covering the city council decision and joined MPR News host Nina Moini about the reform process that has taken several years after the murder of George Floyd in 2020.
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Lawmakers in Washington D.C. are gathering to count the electoral votes from the presidential election and certify Donald Trump’s win.
It was a process that was largely unknown until four years ago, on Jan. 6, 2021, when then-President Donald Trump, who had lost the 2020 election, attempted to block the certification of President Joe Biden’s win. Trump claimed the election was stolen from him, which was dismissed by various courts and election officials. Rioting by Trump supporters at the capitol that day left four people dead, 140 officers injured and another four officers who later died by suicide.
There have been 1,563 people charged with offenses related to the attack. Fifteen of those people were Minnesotans. There are now new rules in place for the Jan. 6 process, to prevent what happened four years ago. U.S. Senator Amy Klobuchar was part of crafting those reforms as chair of the Senate Rules Committee. She spoke with MPR News host Nina Moini ahead of the afternoon’s certification about what the day will look like.
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The start of 2025 means new laws going into effect in the state. We get a rundown of those, plus two special elections this month.
The federal government wants to require reform at the Minneapolis Police Department.
And the Vikings are taking an exciting step towards the Super Bowl. They are vying for the top spot in the playoffs on Sunday night.
A taskforce is recommending the state decriminalize psychedelic drugs for therapeutic purposes.
Plus, for many Somali Americans, New Year’s Day doubles as a birthday. We learn about why so many Somali refugees celebrate their birth on Jan. 1.
Our Minnesota Music Minute was “Compression” by Monica LaPlante.
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On Sunday, the Minnesota Vikings have the chance to become the number one seed in the NFC playoffs for the first time since 1998 in a primetime game against the Detroit Lions.
Both teams are entering the game with identical 14-2 records. The top seed guarantees home-field advantage throughout the postseason and a first-round bye. The loser, despite finishing the regular season with 14 wins, would fall to the number five seed, forcing them to play on the road in the opening round due to the NFL’s playoff structure.
It’s unprecedented for two teams with records this good to meet so late in the season. To talk about the dominant NFC North Division and the highly anticipated matchup, sports contributors, Wally Langfellow and Eric Nelson joined Minnesota Now.
Langfellow is the founder of Minnesota Score Sports Magazine and co-host of the sports talk show 10,000 Takes. Nelson is the other host of 10,000 Takes and Minnesota Vikings NFL reporter for CBS’ Eye on Football and Sirius XM.
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Minnesota’s psychedelic medicine taskforce published their first major report on Wednesday, including their recommendations on the use of psychedelic drugs like psylocibin, MDMA and LSD for medical purposes.
The taskforce has tapped into a growing body of research that suggests that these psychedelic drugs could be a game changer in the field of psychotherapy to treat conditions like addiction, PTSD, depression and bipolar disorder.
Jessica Nielson, a neuroscientist and the chair of the Psychedelic Medicine Taskforce, joined Minnesota Now host Nina Moini to explain the taskforce’s recommendations.
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Twenty five years ago, we weren’t just starting a new year — we were entering a new millennium. No one knew what exactly would unfold over the next few hours, let alone the next 25 years. As we begin a new quarter-century, MPR News asked Minnesota fiction writers Brian Thao Worra, Mubanga Kalimamukwento and Ben Percy to imagine the state 25 years from now, in the year 2050.
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To some people, the new year is an opportunity to start a new chapter or hang a new calendar. To others, it’s just another day when rent is due. For many Somali Americans, New Year’s Day is also their birthday.
Somali refugees and other immigrant communities did not always have records of their birth date when they moved to the U.S. Some lost records while fleeing war in their home country and others never had a reason to track their age to the exact day. When filling out paperwork to resettle in the U.S., many immigrants chose or were assigned Jan. 1 as their birthday.
According to a 2013 Minnesota Law Review report, more than 200,000 immigrants and refugees in the U.S. have Jan. 1 as their date of birth.
Mahamed Cali, executive director of the Somali community radio station KALY 101.7, joined MPR News host Nina Moini to talk about what the day means to immigrants in Minnesota.
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The start of the year also means the start of a busy time at the state capitol. Several new laws went into effect on New Year’s Day, including a new law banning junk fees and a crackdown on forever chemicals known as PFAS.
Going into session, which starts Jan. 14, the Senate will be tied and the Republicans will have a one seat majority in the House, following the passing of Sen. Kari Dziedzic and the resignation of a DFLer after a court found he did not live in the district he was elected to represent.
MPR News senior politics reporter Clay Masters joined Minnesota Now host Nina Moini to talk about new law changes and the 2025 legislative session.
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The city of Minneapolis and U.S. Department of Justice have tentatively agreed on a consent decree that could mandate extensive police reforms, sources confirmed to MPR News on Tuesday.
The anticipated federal consent decree follows a DOJ investigation that concluded the Minneapolis Police Department used excessive and unjustified deadly force and discriminated against Black and Native residents. The city has been under a state-level settlement agreement since 2023.
If the agreement is finalized, Minneapolis would be the first city in the nation bound to both state and federal consent decrees, mandating court-enforceable reforms. The city has been under a state-level settlement since 2023.
Mayor Jacob Frey has called a special city council meeting Monday to discuss the tentative agreement. MPR News reporter Cari Spencer joined Minnesota Now host Nina Moini to talk about the potential decree.
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In 2024, Minnesota Now carried the funeral services live of four first responders who were shot and killed in the line of duty.
In February, Burnsville police officers Paul Elmstrand and Matthew Ruge and firefighter-paramedic Adam Finseth were killed while responding to a domestic call.
In May, Minneapolis police officer Jamal Mitchell was shot and killed while responding to a shooting.
2024 marks the most shooting deaths of law enforcement in Minnesota in 42 years.
Joining Minnesota Now now to reflect on this last year for law enforcement is Crystal police Deputy Chief Brian Hubbard, the president of the Law Enforcement Memorial Association.
And Jim Giese, president of the Minnesota chapter of Concerns of Police Survivors, or COPS.
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On the final day of 2024, we look back on what happened this year on the program.
First, we remember four Burnsville first responders and a Minneapolis police officer who were killed while on duty. After a year that saw the highest number of fatal shootings of officers in Minnesota in 42 years, we learn about efforts to memorialize officers who have died and support their loved ones.
Plus, Minnesota Now producers get behind the mic to share some of their favorite interviews from the year.
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