Walz sounds off on governing in the pandemic
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Gov. Tim Walz joined MPR this morning to talk about the pandemic, civil unrest, drought and his reelection prospects. [ Listen]
The Minnesota State Patrol arrested four people Friday in an attempt to clear the Capitol grounds of a protest against the Line 3 oil pipeline. [Read more from Tim Pugmire]
Walz is having difficulty trying to recruit a new pollution control commissioner. His last one was forced out by the Republican-controlled Minnesota Senate, and if Walz loses the 2022 election any choice now would be out of the job after just one year. [ Read more from the Minnesota Reformer's J. Patrick Coolican]
The U.S. Supreme Court, as expected, blocked President Joe Biden's eviction moratorium Thursday night. [Read more from NPR's Krishnadev Calamur and Chris Arnold]
Local angle: This doesn't affect Minnesota, where a law passed this summer keeps parts of an eviction moratorium in place through next summer.
Minnesota congressional staffers have been scrambling to try to get people out of Afghanistan. [ Read more from MinnPost's Ashley Hackett]
A fascinating look inside the hidden war between the Taliban and ISIS. [Read more from the Wall Street Journal's Alan Cullison]
Why are so many people taking ivermectin, a horse dewormer, in an attempt to treat or prevent COVID-19? It's one of several drugs some people have taken as an ostensible "miracle cure" despite little to no evidence of efficacy, and things have gotten weird. [ Read more from NBC's Ben Collins]
Minnesota is one of a majority of states where all statewide elected officials are members of the same political party. There are six states where all statewide elected officials are the same party with a lone exception. [Read more from Smart Politics' Eric Ostermeier]
Something completely different: William Clotworthy, the longtime censor for "Saturday Night Life," is dead at age 95. He and future senator Al Franken in particular would often butt heads over what jokes could make it on the air. But Clotworthy's relatively light hand — he'd suggest changes instead of axing entire sketches — made him begrudgingly admired by many of the cast. [Read more from Clay Risen in the New York Times]
Listen: Singer-songwriter Joe Pug with the plaintive "The Sharpest Crown." [Watch] | |
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