Esme Murphy at WCCO News is reporting Republican lawmakers at the State Capitol are pushing hard to roll back laws that make life for the estimated 81,000 undocumented residents in Minnesota easier.
Tim Harlow at the Star Tribune reports federal prosecutors are asking a court to rescind its pending decision to release former Minnesota Sen. Justin Eichorn to a halfway house this week after learning he allegedly lied about having access to firearms and attempted to prevent authorities from examining a laptop computer.
Morgan Reddekopp at KSTP reports one of the candidates running for Eichorn’s senate seat is Jennifer Carnahan, former chairwoman of the Republican Party of Minnesota.
Related: DFL Party statement on Carnahan’s bid [DFL Party]
Jeff Wald at KSTP is reporting the Gophers are hiring Colorado State’s Niko Medved, a native of Roseville, as the school’s next men’s basketball coach.
Nick Halter at Axios talks with Lyndale Avenue business owners concerned with the South Lyndale Avenue reconstruction project that begins in 2027.
Via MPR News: The latest county with a confirmed infestation of emerald ash borer is Aitkin.
Sydney Kashiwagi at the Star Tribune writes Rep. Kelly Morrison and five other Democratic physicians have teamed up to form a Congressional Doctors Caucus.
Erik Gunn at Wisconsin Examiner reports the Social Security Administration has summarily closed a federally funded consortium of research centers, including one at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, that studied demographic trends and the impacts of policy on the federal retirement system.
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