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Legislative leaders posture on possible special session on guns, school safety
By Lisa Kaczke
After weeks of meetings to negotiate the framework of a special session on gun violence, school safety and mental health, is a gathering on the near horizon?
On Tuesday, Gov. Tim Walz and DFL leaders released a proposed framework for a special session that’d begin next Monday.
Walz and legislative leaders began meeting to discuss a special session framework following the Aug. 27 shooting at Annunciation Catholic School in Minneapolis that killed two children and injured 21 people.
House DFL Caucus Leader Zack Stephenson (DFL-Coon Rapids) said negotiations have reached a “clear impasse.” House Speaker Lisa Demuth (R-Cold Spring) doesn’t think discussions have broken down and the topics will be part of the Legislature’s discussions whether in a special session or during the 2026 session that begins Feb. 17.
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Speaker Emerita Melissa Hortman, husband killed in attack
By HPIS Staff
House Speaker Emerita Melissa Hortman (DFL-Brooklyn Park) and her husband, Mark, were fatally shot in their home early Saturday morning.
Gov. Tim Walz announced the news dur...
Lawmakers deliver budget bills to governor's desk in one-day special session
By Mike Cook
About that talk of needing all 21 hours left in a legislative day to complete a special session?
House members were more than up to the challenge Monday. Beginning at 10 a.m...
