Senate President Bobby Joe Champion, DFL-Minneapolis, spoke at an ERA rally at the Capitol, joined on stage by U.S. Rep. Betty McCollum (left) and state Sen. Mary Kunesh, DFL-New Brighton, on Feb. 12, 2024. Photo by Michelle Griffith/Minnesota Reformer.
Attorney General Keith Ellison announced his support for legislation that would rein in medical billing at a press conference on Feb. 9, 2024. Photo by Madison McVan/Minnesota Reformer.
Minnesota Nurses Association President Chris Rubesch announces the union’s 2024 “Healing Greed Agenda” at the Minnesota state Capitol on Feb. 5, 2024. Photo by Max Nesterak/Minnesota Reformer.
NBC video and photojournalist Ed Ou, one of the plaintiffs, was pepper sprayed and shot with a less-lethal projectile. Photo courtesy of ACLU of Minnesota.
Immigrants walk towards the Rio Grande to cross into Del Rio, Texas on September 23, 2021, from Ciudad Acuna, Mexico. Photo by John Moore/Getty Images.
Gov. Tim Walz spoke to hunger advocates and organizers at Second Harvest Heartland in Brooklyn Park on Jan. 29, 2024. Photo by Michelle Griffith/Minnesota Reformer.
The developer of the newly constructed Juliette apartment building in St. Paul included more apartments and fewer parking spaces as a result of the city eliminating minimum parking requirements. Photo by Max Nesterak/Minnesota Reformer.
United Auto Workers union members picket outside a Stellantis parts distribution facility in Plymouth on Sept. 26, 2023. Photo by Max Nesterak/Minnesota Reformer.
U.S. Rep. Pramila Jayapal, a Washington Democrat and the chair of the Progressive Caucus, speaks at a press event, joining about 100 tenant advocates to call on the Federal Housing Finance Agency to bolster tenant protections and rent regulations on Wednesday, Nov. 15, 2023
Tax chairs Rep. Aisha Gomez, DFL-Minneapolis, (left) and Sen. Ann Rest, DFL-New Hope, congratulated each other over the tax bill on May 20, 2023. Photo by Senate Media Services. Converted to black-and-white.
Climate-induced weather disasters include record wildfires in the West, record-setting heat waves and droughts, and aggressive hurricanes. Here, smoke plumes and hurricane clouds are visible at once. Photo courtesy of NASA Earth Observatory.
