By WCCO-TV Staff — Feb 24, 2022 ST. PAUL, Minn. (WCCO) —Minnesota’s members of Congress condemned Russia’s invasion into Ukraine, all of them reacting to the escalating violence on Thursday as President Biden hit the country with new stringent sanctions. Biden addressed the nation on Thursday afternoon, announcing new sanctions on Russian banks to freeze “every […]
We need to reach our new normal, and we need to know he has a plan to get us there. By Rep. Angie Craig — Feb 20, 2022 When President Joe Biden stands before Congress on March 1, he should do so not as a politician proposing a grand domestic agenda — but as a focused […]
By Lakeland Broadcasting — Feb 17, 2022 (Washington, DC) — Minnesota Congresswoman Angie Craig is sponsoring legislation that would lower federal taxes for small businesses. The Small Business Tax Relief Act lowers the corporate income tax rate from 21 to 18 percent on the first 400-thousand dollars in taxable income for businesses earning less than five-million […]
By KLGR Minnesota U.S. Representative Angie Craig, from Minnesota’s Second District, is sponsoring legislation that would lower federal taxes for small businesses. The Small Business Tax Relief Act lowers the corporate income tax rate from 21 to 18 percent on the first 400-thousand dollars in taxable income for businesses earning less than five-million dollars annually. […]
By J. Miles Coleman, Sabato’s Crystal Ball — Feb 16, 2022 KEY POINTS FROM THIS ARTICLE — Four more states finalized their House maps over the past week or so, bringing the total number of states with completed congressional maps to 41. — Maps in Connecticut, Minnesota, and Washington did not change much at all, […]
See which areas were gained and lost in each of Minnesota’s eight congressional districts. By Tom Nehil and Ashley Hackett, Minn Post — Feb 16, 2022 With the Legislature failing (not even really trying to act), on Tuesday a special judicial panel in Minnesota released the political district boundaries that will be used in the state […]
By Tim Pugmire and David H. Montgomery, MPR News — Feb 15, 2022 A special five-judge panel released new congressional and legislative maps Tuesday setting the political playing field for Minnesota for the next 10 years. The newly drawn congressional districts keep the 7th in western Minnesota and extend the 8th west to take in […]
The courts made the biggest shifts in the competitive Second District. By Briana Bierschbach and Hunter Woodall, Star Tribune — Feb 15, 2022 The boundaries of Minnesota’s eight congressional districts will shift around the edges for the decade to come under redistricting maps released Tuesday, with the most dramatic geographic changes occurring in two swing […]
By MOHAMED IBRAHIM, AP — Feb 15, 2022 ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — A Minnesota panel of five judges released new congressional and legislative district maps on Tuesday, repositioning the state’s political landscape for the next 10 years and setting the stage for November’s midterm elections. The newly drawn maps showed expansions and contractions of […]
By Nancy Hemphill, Healio — Feb 14, 2022 A bipartisan group of U.S. House of Representatives members wrote to the CDC asking about the agency’s efforts to encourage early detection and prevention of childhood myopia. In the Feb. 11 letter, the 28-member group, led by Congresswoman Angie Craig (D-Minn.) and Congressman John Joyce, MD (R-Pa.), said that myopia “poses […]