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Help Wanted: Minnesota Is Losing Workers
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — State officials say Minnesota has a problem: Too many jobs, too few workers. Economists say the answer is more immigrants — while at the same time President Donald Trump is trying...
View ArticleReality Check: Does Wind Energy Kill Birds And Cause Cancer?
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — Minnesota-based Xcel Energy made a surprising announcement this week — it’s shutting down its coal-fired power plants in Minnesota by 2030. The state’s largest power company is...
View ArticleThe Bills Left Behind By The 2019 Legislative Session
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — Minnesota lawmakers introduced thousands of bills this legislative session. Some were controversial, while many generated high public interest. But here’s a Reality Check: Almost...
View ArticleInside The Minnesota Legislature’s ‘Cone Of Silence’
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — Minnesota lawmakers promised on opening day of the 2019 session to make it the most open, transparent one ever. But five months later, the $48 billion budget deal was brokered by...
View ArticleReality Check: How Many Government Workers Does Minnesota Have?
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — It’s one of the biggest complaints Americans have: Government is just too big. That’s why a new study measures just how many public workers there are. So how does Minnesota stack...
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Reality Check: Trump Faces Decline In Midwest Approval
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — President Donald Trump launched his 2020 re-election campaign Tuesday at a raucous rally in Orlando. But the road to the White House goes through the Midwest, where he unexpectedly...
View ArticleReality Check: Outside Groups Spent Record Money To Influence 2018 Minn....
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — Outside groups spent a record amount of money to influence Minnesota state political campaigns last year. And when you add in what the candidates themselves spent, a new report...
View ArticleMinnesota Lawmakers Enjoyed $1 Million In Per Diem Payments In 2019 Session
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — Minnesota state lawmakers last week got their second pay raise in two years. But it did not stop them from taking more than a million dollars in under-the-radar daily expense...
View ArticleReality Check: The Truth About Immigrants In Minnesota
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — The fallout hasn’t stopped from President Donald Trump targeting a group of Congresswomen, including one from Minnesota. READ MORE: ‘Send Her Back!’: President Trump Slams Rep....
View ArticleReality Check: Minnesota Politicians Who Vote With Trump
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — President Donald Trump this week vowed he will win Minnesota in the 2020 election. It’s a tall order for a traditionally blue state, and new research shows Minnesota Congress...
View ArticleRealty Check: ‘Red Flag’ Gun Laws
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) – Nationwide protests are taking place in the wake of mass shootings in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio. In Minnesota, there are new demands for “red flag” laws to disarm dangerous...
View Article2 Years After Sunday Liquor Sale Bill Passes, Tax Revenue Still Lackluster
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — Minnesota now has two years of Sunday liquor sales under its belt, and the numbers are in. For the second year in a row, revenues from state alcohol taxes did not go up as much as...
View ArticleHated By Trump, Embraced By Omar: What Is The BDS Movement?
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — President Donald Trump kept up his attacks on four Congresswomen of color this week, including Minnesota’s Ilhan Omar. They support a boycott against Israel known as BDS — a...
View ArticleReality Check: Minnesota State Fair’s Top 10 Bestselling Foods
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — One of the main reasons people flock the Minnesota State Fair is to eat — and many vendors bring in big bucks feeding us. The fair puts together a top 10 list every year. Here are...
View ArticleReality Check: Minnesota And The Climate Change Crisis
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — Hurricane Dorian is bearing down on the East Coast Wednesday night, after leaving behind massive destruction in the Bahamas. The National Climate Assessment, or NCA4, was released...
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‘You’re Fired’: Turnover In The Trump Administration
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — President Donald Trump made history this week when he fired his third national security advisor, John Bolton. He’s now had more national security advisors than any first term...
View ArticleDHS: About 35K Minnesotans To Lose Food Stamps Under New Trump Administration...
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — Thousands of Minnesotans could be kicked off food stamps under new Trump administration rules. State officials have until next week to file objections to the plan which will take...
View ArticleReality Check: Could Impeachment Actually Help Trump’s Approval Ratings?
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — President Donald Trump has condemned the Democratic impeachment hearings against him, calling them a “witch hunt.” But Trump also says impeachment could help him win a second term....
View ArticleReality Check: New GOP Ads Target Minnesota Rep. Angie Craig
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — Minnesota Democrat Angie Craig went to Congress in 2018 by flipping the district President Donald Trump won in 2016 from red to blue. Now, a new GOP ad claims Craig “broke her...
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Is President Trump Responsible For More Than 54,000 Minnesota Jobs?
(Note: An earlier version of this story included numbers provided to WCCO by the Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development that have since been corrected.) MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — The...
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