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Minnesota’lı Vekil Melissa Hortman’ın Katiline Müebbet Cezası
Minnesota Demokrat Partili eski Temsilciler Meclisi Başkanı Melissa Hortman ve eşi Mark Hortman’ı öldüren Vance Boelter, iki kez ağırlaştırılmış müebbet ve 40 yıl hapis cezasına çarptırıldı. Ceza, perşembe günü federal mahkemede açıklanırken, sanık geçen ay suçunu kabul etmiş ve ölüm cezasından kurtulmak için itiraf yoluna gitmişti. Mahkeme salonunda gözyaşları ve öfke dolu ifadeler yer alırken, hayatta kalan senatör John Hoffman ve eşi Yvette ile öldürülen Hortman çiftinin yakınları konuştu.
Sentencian a dos cadenas perpetuas al hombre que asesinó a la legisladora de Minnesota Melissa Hortman y su esposo
Jul. 23, 2026, 1:19 PM EDT El hombre de Minnesota que se declaró culpable del asesinato de una destacada legisladora demócrata y de su esposo fue condenado este jueves en un tribunal federal a dos cadenas perpetuas consecutivas. Vance Boelter también fue condenado a otros 480 meses de prisión (40 años), la sentencia más larga que el juez John R. Tunheim dijo haber impuesto en su carrera.
ABD, Minnesota Demokrat Cinayetinde İdam İstemeyecek
Minneapolis’te federal savcılar, Minnesota’da bir eyalet vekili ve eşinin öldürülmesi ile bir senatör ve eşine suikast girişimiyle suçlanan sanık için idam cezası istemeyecek. Sanık Vance Boelter, perşembe günü federal mahkemede ifade değişikliği duruşmasına çıkacak. Savcılık makamı, yapılan anlaşma uyarınca idam cezasının talep edilmeyeceğini mahkemeye bildirdi. Boelter’in avukatları ise konuyla ilgili henüz bir açıklama yapmadı.
It's time for Republicans to honor the will of the voters
Opinion editor's note: Strib Voices publishes a mix of guest commentaries online and in print each day. To contribute, click here. Minnesota House Democrats are ready to get to work to build a future where everyone can get ahead, not just the wealthy and powerful. But to do that, we need to find a way to govern together with Republicans as voters delivered this last election.
Column: Split House provides opportunity for bipartisanship
The 2024 election made it clear that Minnesota is a closely divided state, and voters chose a tied Minnesota House of Representatives. While the partisanship and division that we’ve seen on the rise nationally in recent years creates challenges at the Legislature, this moment also provides an opportunity for us to deliver for Minnesotans and do what they expect from us: work together and get things done. The primary work of the 2025 Legislative Session will be to craft a two-year state budget.
Column: Tied House provides opportunity for bipartisanship
The 2024 election made it clear that Minnesota is a closely divided state, and voters chose a tied Minnesota House of Representatives. While the partisanship and division that we’ve seen on the rise nationally in recent years creates challenges at the Legislature, this moment also provides an opportunity for us to deliver for Minnesotans and do what they expect from us: work together and get things done. The primary work of the 2025 Legislative Session will be to craft a two-year state budget.
2025 Minnesota House of Representatives provides opportunity for bipartisanship
The 2024 election made it clear that Minnesota is a closely divided state, and voters chose a tied Minnesota House of Representatives. While the partisanship and division that we’ve seen on the rise nationally in recent years creates challenges at the Legislature, this moment also provides an opportunity for us to deliver for Minnesotans and do what they expect from us: work together and get things done. The primary work of the 2025 Legislative Session will be to craft a two-year state budget.
2025 House provides opportunity for bipartisanship
The 2024 election made it clear that Minnesota is a closely divided state, and voters chose a tied Minnesota House of Representatives. While the partisanship and division that we've seen on the rise nationally in recent years creates challenges at the Legislature, this moment also provides an opportunity for us to deliver for Minnesotans and do what they expect from us: work together and get things done.
Column: 2025 Minnesota House of Representatives provides opportunity for bipartisanship
The 2024 election made it clear that Minnesota is a closely divided state, and voters chose a tied Minnesota House of Representatives. While the partisanship and division that we’ve seen on the rise nationally in recent years creates challenges at the Legislature, this moment also provides an opportunity for us to deliver for Minnesotans and do what they expect from us: work together and get things done. The primary work of the 2025 Legislative Session will be to craft a two-year state budget.
2024 election, Minnesota Legislature: The House DFL view
Opinion editor’s note: Strib Voices publishes a mix of guest commentaries online and in print each day. To contribute, click here. Minnesota is a great state. One constant has helped our state succeed: Minnesotans care deeply about our shared future. They want success for themselves and their families, but they also want their neighbors and communities to thrive.
OPINION EXCHANGE | The most consequential legislature in generations
Opinion editor's note: Star Tribune Opinion publishes a mix of national and local commentaries online and in print each day. To contribute, click here. ••• When the Minnesota Legislature adjourned on May 20, it completed the most productive two-year session since the Minnesota Miracle of the 1970s.
OPINION EXCHANGE | The legislative session ahead: DFL priorities
Opinion editor's note: Star Tribune Opinion publishes a mix of national and local commentaries online and in print each day. To contribute, click here. This article was written by Melissa Hortman, speaker of the Minnesota House, and Erin Murphy, majority leader of the Minnesota Senate. ••• What a difference a year makes.
OPINION EXCHANGE | Historic progress for generations to come
Opinion editor's note: Star Tribune Opinion publishes a mix of national and local commentaries online and in print each day. To contribute, click here. ••• Last November, for the first time in a decade, Minnesotans entrusted DFLers with full control of state government. They were clear that they wanted to see an end to the era of gridlock in divided government.
Stimulus Checks Worth $2,600 May Be Distributed to Minnesota Households
Minnesota households may receive good news in the coming days, and as much as $2,600 worth of stimulus checks in their hands as part of the "ambitious" disbursement plan to spend the money from the state's "huge budget surplus" amounting to $17.The amount of stimulus checks will be structured.In summary, the following are what Minnesotians would enjoy, aside from the stimulus checks, once the two-year budget plan is approved by the lawmakers, as enumerated by The Ascent.Related Article: State...
OPINION EXCHANGE | DFL Agenda: Reproductive freedom, helping families, curbing guns and extremism
Opinion editor's note: Star Tribune Opinion publishes a mix of national and local commentaries online and in print each day. To contribute, click here. ••• As I've knocked on doors and talked to Minnesotans, it's clear that people remain hopeful and positive despite the struggles of the last few years.
OPINION EXCHANGE | DFL will focus on public safety, family economics
We are closing in on two years of living with COVID-19. For most of us, these have been two of the most difficult years of our lives. We are exhausted and frustrated. We've lost more than 11,000 Minnesotans and 850,000 Americans to this virus. Health professionals are at a breaking point. Students and educators are struggling through another COVID school year.
OPINION EXCHANGE | The case for Minnesota DFLers
The year 2020 has been difficult. COVID-19 has cost the lives of more than 219,000 Americans and 2,200 Minnesotans — so far. We have lost mothers, fathers, grandmas, grandpas, brothers and sisters several years before their time from this terrible virus. Family members have lost loved ones without being able to hold their hands, comfort them and say goodbye. Many have lost jobs or had to scale back their businesses, and fear what’s ahead financially.
OPINION EXCHANGE | 2020 DFL legislative focus: Education, economic security, climate change, gun violence …
One year ago, I had the honor of being sworn in as Minnesota’s 58th speaker since statehood and its third female speaker. In 2019, our new majority, the Minnesota House DFL, showed we are hardworking and focused on building a Minnesota that works better for all of us. Minnesotans value a great education for all students and job training for all workers, affordable, high-quality health care, and economic security. They want safe and welcoming communities.
Cost of insulin shouldn't be cause for death
There is a bright, young woman at Concordia University named Alexis Stanley. Certain fears are typical for a college student like Alexis: “Will I pass my chemistry midterm? Will I land that internship? What will I do after graduation?” But Alexis fears something no young person should: her 26th birthday. She has Type 1 diabetes and that date marks the moment when she will no longer be covered under her parent’s health insurance.
OPINION EXCHANGE | Cost of insulin shouldn't be cause for death
There is a bright, young woman at Concordia University named Alexis Stanley. Certain fears are typical for a college student like Alexis: “Will I pass my chemistry midterm? Will I land that internship? What will I do after graduation?” But Alexis fears something no young person should: her 26th birthday. She has Type 1 diabetes and that date marks the moment when she will no longer be covered under her parent’s health insurance.
OPINION EXCHANGE | Counterpoint: Minnesota's urban-rural divide is a myth
Minnesotans have a lot in common with each other. We care about our neighbors and our shared future. We want to see everyone succeed in our communities. No matter our differences, including where we live, we all want good jobs that can support our families, good schools for our children, clean air to breathe, clean water to drink and affordable, high-quality health care. There are those who seek to divide us.
OPINION EXCHANGE | Minnesota House Speaker Melissa Hortman: A good session? Yes, but one with a lot of 'no'
House DFLers, Senate Republicans and Gov. Tim Walz worked together this year and delivered a bipartisan budget agreement that serves Minnesotans. Minnesotans were clear and consistent about their values through the 2018 election season and the 2019 legislative session: They value world-class schools, affordable and accessible health care and economic security. Minnesotans value these things for their own families — and they want them for their neighbors, too.
Reader's View: Work by Schultz, Olson will save lives
By Rep. Melissa Hortman Today at 7:38 p.m. This legislative session, Duluth state Reps. Jen Schultz and Liz Olson showed tremendous leadership at the Capitol. Both were instrumental in ensuring that legislation designed to keep Minnesotans safe became law. It was clear that older and vulnerable Minnesotans in assisted-care facilities needed more protection to ensure their safety. As chairwoman of the House Long-Term Care Division, Rep.
OPINION EXCHANGE | Minnesota Legislature: Democrats want a good future for all; Republicans want that just for some
As I’ve traveled the state this year, one thing has become clear: We Minnesotans care deeply about our state, and we want to see one another succeed. We want affordable health care, both for our own families and for our neighbors’ families. We want world-class schools for our children and for all the children in our community. We want jobs that provide good wages and benefits to support all of our families. We want everyone to be safe at home, in school, at work and in our public spaces.
Editorial counterpoint: Here's why legislative pay increase is at issue
Minnesotans rightfully expect lawmakers to put the critical needs of their families and communities first. Contrary to the assertion of a Sept. 5 editorial (“DFL’s claim isn’t true on legislative pay”), Minnesota House Republicans went in the opposite direction when they passed a bill that funded the Legislature — including legislator salaries that increased 45 percent — on the third day of the 2018 session.
Minnesota steps up to the plate on climate
President Trump announced last week that the United States would become the first country to leave the Paris agreement on climate change, making it clear there will be zero national leadership on the transition to sustainable energy. It is now up to states, cities and companies to fill the void. Some states may well see Trump’s many environmental rollbacks as an opening to keep their old coal plants running for a few more years and to slow their investment in renewable energy.
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