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Max Nesterak@maxnesterak
21 Mar 2025
In the Break Room: 👉Trump administration moves increase line speed limits for meat processors 👉Fired federal workers reinstated but larger cuts planned 👉Cleveland-Cliffs lays off 630 mine workers 👉120 nursing home workers threaten strike minnesotareformer.com/2025/0…

Trump administration moves to increase line speed limits for meat processors — and other labor news...

Take a seat in the Break Room, our weekly roundup of labor news in Minnesota and beyond. This week: USDA allows higher line speeds at meat processing plants; illegally fired federal workers get...

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DFL Sen. Kari Dziedzic, former Majority Leader, dies of cancer at 62 minnesotareformer.com/2024/1…

DFL Sen. Kari Dziedzic, former majority leader, dies of cancer at 62 • Minnesota Reformer

Her legacy includes policy achievements that will touch the lives of nearly every Minnesotan.

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In 2023, lawmakers increased funding for the K-12 Education Credit helping low-income families afford tutoring. One of the bill's testifiers runs a company called Success Tutoring that mothers say scammed them out of thousands minnesotareformer.com/2024/1…

Low-income mothers lost tax refunds to tutoring companies using overseas instructors • Minnesota...

Success Tutoring and Achievers Tutoring received thousands in state funds from K-12 Education Tax Credit while paying Filipino instructors less than $5 per hour.

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Max Nesterak@maxnesterak
16 Dec 2024
I'm out with an investigation today about two tutoring companies — Success Tutoring and Achievers Tutoring — that charged thousands under Minnesota's K-12 education tax credit while outsourcing instruction to Filipino teachers paid less than $5 per hour minnesotareformer.com/2024/1…

Low-income mothers lost tax refunds to tutoring companies using overseas instructors • Minnesota...

Success Tutoring and Achievers Tutoring received thousands in state funds from K-12 Education Tax Credit while paying Filipino instructors less than $5 per hour.

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Commentary....Minnesota: An easy mark minnesotareformer.com/2024/1…

Minnesota: An easy mark • Minnesota Reformer

The outrageous theft of hundreds of millions of dollars of public money from various important programs has likely eroded the people’s trust in government.

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The Public Utilities Commission has granted a long-awaited permit for a Minnesota portion of a massive planned carbon capture pipeline network minnesotareformer.com/2024/1…

PUC grants long-awaited permit for carbon capture pipeline • Minnesota Reformer

The Minnesota Public Utilities Commission voted unanimously Thursday to grant a long-awaited permit to Summit Carbon Solutions, allowing the company to build a small portion of a planned 2,500-mile...

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Feds serve search warrant in autism fraud investigation minnesotareformer.com/2024/1… h/t @deenafaywinter

Feds serve search warrants in autism fraud investigation • Minnesota Reformer

It's shaping up to be another instance of state government struggling to stop a wave of fraud that has beset a number of safety net programs in the past decade.

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The most expensive health care system. One of the lowest life expectancies in the wealthy world. In his manifesto, Luigi Mangione paints himself as a man radicalized by statistics. minnesotareformer.com/2024/1…

A man radicalized by statistics • Minnesota Reformer

In a note he was carrying when he was arrested, Luigi Mangione paints himself as a man radicalized by statistics. “The US has the #1 most expensive health care system in the world, yet we rank...

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Minnesota’s Office of Cannabis Management on Wednesday announced that it’s canceling a planned lottery for special early cannabis licenses intended to help disadvantaged entrepreneurs get a leg-up in the nascent legal marijuana market. minnesotareformer.com/2024/1…

Minnesota cannabis agency ditches preapproval license lottery after litigation • Minnesota Reformer

Minnesota’s Office of Cannabis Management on Wednesday announced that it’s canceling a planned lottery for special early cannabis licenses intended to help disadvantaged entrepreneurs get a leg-up in...

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Part 2 of our commentary series on government fraud in Minnesota: Don’t get into a fight with the Office of Legislative Auditor. Okay, just this once. minnesotareformer.com/2024/1…

Don't get into a fight with the Office of Legislative Auditor. Okay, just this once. • Minnesota...

The OLA has become all-powerful in Minnesota politics, for better and worse.

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State failed to collect at least $40 million in outstanding Medical Assistance debt, audit finds minnesotareformer.com/2024/1…

State failed to collect at least $40 million in outstanding Medical Assistance debt, audit finds •...

Health care providers in Minnesota owe the Department of Human Services more than $40 million — but the agency has only made sporadic efforts to collect the debt over the past 10 years.

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Commentary from former DHS deputy commish, Chuck Johnson: Understanding fraud in Minnesota government, and how to fight it minnesotareformer.com/2024/1…

Understanding fraud in Minnesota government, and how to fight it • Minnesota Reformer

When water is leaking all over your kitchen floor, you don’t just wait around for the plumber. You turn off the water. 

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In 2018, the former director of athletic medicine for the University of Minnesota sent a letter to the Board of Regents alleging mistreatment of athletes. After she raised those concerns internally, her employment contract was not renewed. minnesotareformer.com/2024/1…

U of M athletic department dismissed whistleblower following accusations of athlete mistreatment •...

For years, the University of Minnesota Athletic Department allowed coaches to interfere with athletes’ medical treatment, and retaliated against medical and training staff who raised concerns about...

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Understanding fraud in Minnesota government, and how to fight it minnesotareformer.com/2024/1…

Understanding fraud in Minnesota government, and how to fight it • Minnesota Reformer

When water is leaking all over your kitchen floor, you don’t just wait around for the plumber. You turn off the water. 

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Incoming DFL lawmaker: GOP campaign was surveilling wrong apartment minnesotareformer.com/2024/1… via @MNReformer

Incoming DFL lawmaker: GOP campaign was surveilling wrong apartment • Minnesota Reformer

State Rep.-elect Curtis Johnson, who’s been accused by his Republican opponent of not residing in the district he was elected to represent, said in court documents this week that the staffers from...

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Federal appeals court upholds rapidly approaching TikTok ban minnesotareformer.com/2024/1… via @MNReformer

Federal appeals court upholds rapidly approaching TikTok ban • Minnesota Reformer

Decision: "The Government acted solely to protect that freedom from a foreign adversary nation and to limit that adversary’s ability to gather data on people in the United States.”

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Via @stateline_news cc: Minnesota legislators. Growth of sports betting may be linked to financial woes, new studies find minnesotareformer.com/2024/1… via @MNReformer

Growth of sports betting may be linked to financial woes, new studies find • Minnesota Reformer

The rate of gambling problems among sports bettors is at least twice as high as it is for other gamblers, according to the National Council on Problem Gambling.

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From our friends at @19thnews Minnesota-born Hegseth is wrong leader for women in the military, warn women veterans and lawmakers minnesotareformer.com/2024/1… via @MNReformer

Hegseth is wrong leader for women in the military, warn women veterans and lawmakers • Minnesota...

Democratic Sen. Tammy Duckworth of Illinois, a veteran, called it “insane” that Trump would nominate someone like Hegseth after the “decades” of efforts within the Armed Services.

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In 2023 the company paid a $7.8 million Federal Trade Commission fine for sharing sensitive health data with advertisers, including Facebook, Pinterest and SnapChat. minnesotareformer.com/2024/1… via @MNReformer

Judicial branch partners with therapy firm fined millions to settle data privacy allegations •...

Minnesota has become the second state in the nation to guarantee therapy services for jurors. But the private company the Minnesota Judicial Branch has partnered with to provide those services,...

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Minnesota is likely to end the next two-year budget cycle with a small surplus, officials said Wednesday. But uncertainty around inflation and Trump administration policies could quickly change the state's financial picture — and a deficit is looming. minnesotareformer.com/2024/1…

Minnesota's budget outlook: Smaller surplus, deficits down the road, as much as $5 billion •...

With a multi-billion dollar deficit looming in a few years, the divided state Legislature must decide next session whether to address the imbalance immediately, or delay potential budget cuts or tax...

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