Walz blasts big pharma for suing state, says they’re as bad...
Gov. Tim Walz, legislators and activists on Wednesday heralded the start of a new insulin affordability law while blasting a last-minute legal challenge by...
As the pandemic marches on, so does the Trump administration’s war...
As the COVID-19 crisis continues in Minnesota and across the country, the Trump administration and Republican lawmakers are still working to take accessible health...
If the pandemic has taught us anything, it’s that public health...
As a country we have woefully underinvested in public health. This was true in 1960 and it is true today. We spend 0.45% of...
Minnesota will be recovering from COVID-19 for years
It seems like this has been going on forever. On March 6, I wrote the following in our newsletter, Daily Reformer:
With Super Tuesday over...
Most vulnerable leave homeless shelters just as COVID-19 arrives
Three weeks ago, Barbara Williams moved out of a shelter in Minneapolis — where 15 women sleep on bunk beds in a large, open...
Home health aides and personal care attendants are on the front...
When I was younger, my sister used to tell me, “Nora, you’re the kind of person who tries to make life easier for everyone...
St. Louis Park health care worker: “We don’t have any tests”
Brianne Bernini, an emergency department technician at Park Nicollet Methodist Hospital in St. Louis Park was told when she arrived at work last Thursday...
Gov. Walz orders schools temporarily closed to curb COVID-19 outbreak
DFL Gov. Tim Walz on Sunday took his most drastic action yet to contain the spread of COVID-19, ordering the temporary closure of Minnesota...
GOP lawmaker: Expect limits on large public events like concerts, ballgames
A Republican lawmaker said Minnesotans should expect significant changes in their daily lives in the coming weeks and months due to the coming outbreak...
Congress rebukes Trump’s bid to slash CDC funding amid outbreak
WASHINGTON — U.S. House lawmakers resoundingly rebuffed a Trump administration request to cut funding for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention amid the...