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Minnesota’s nearly $9 billion hospitality industry “is on the brink of no return,” according to a new report warning that years of mounting regulation and economic uncertainty threaten to decimate a key part of the state’s economy.
The new survey from Hospitality Minnesota found that only a third of restaurants, hotels and other tourism businesses expect a better spring than last year. In contrast, nearly three-quarters expected a better spring in 2021.
“We’ve not recovered since the pandemic,” said Angie Whitcomb, Hospitality Minnesota’s president and CEO. “We are at a point now where it is dire and we’re starting to see the effects of this.”
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EXCLUSIVE: Spending on nonprofits has doubled in a decade in Minnesota’s most-populated county, says entrepreneur
"I think that people, as they've learned more about how those tax dollars have been wasted and defrauded, they're surprised at first and I think there just comes to be this point of, candidly, just a little bit of anger," said Kevin Peterson.
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Minnesotans could pay upward of $20 billion every year in a few decades if the state doesn’t adapt to climate change, according to a new study from the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency.
The Legislature-mandated report, which was released Monday, March 16, says the costs of not adapting to the warming climate are higher than if the state began to make necessary changes.
Minnesota has seen heavier rainfall, smokier air and warmer summers in recent years as a result of climate change, according to the report.
“Investing in adaptation reduces costly risks to the state and its residents,” the report said.
If the state invests more in climate projects, it could cost $2.5 billion to $4.1 billion annually, considerably less than what the long-term negative effects are expected to cost Minnesota. Expenses for failure to adapt could balloon up to $57 billion by 2070.
After a bill to lower license tab fees failed in the Minnesota House transportation committee, the cost is unlikely to go down anytime soon.
In 2023, the legislature increased the tax rate for license tab fees, while at the same time dramatically slowing the rate of depreciation, so you pay a higher rate on an artificially high valuation on your vehicle.
There’s a bill in the house to lower the license tab tax rate from 1.575% of your vehicle’s value to 1.285%, while also speeding up the depreciation of your car.
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A professional cornhole player and quadruple amputee has been formally charged with murder and multiple related offenses in connection with a deadly shooting that occurred in Charles County on March 22, 2026.
Dayton James Webber, 27, of La Plata, Md., was arraigned in the District Court of Maryland for Charles County after being located in Charlottesville, Virginia, and arrested following the fatal shooting of 27‑year‑old Bradrick Michael Wells, according to court documents.
United Airlines is launching the North American version of the Air New Zealand Skycouch idea: a dedicated row of three economy seats whose leg rests flip up after takeoff to create a couch or bed-like surface, with a mattress pad, extra bedding, pillows, and family-oriented amenities.
It launches next year, sits between Economy and Premium Plus, and United calls it the “Relax Row.” They plan for ‘up to’ 12 sections per widebody aircraft and a rollout to 200+ widebodies by 2030.
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Minnesotans could pay upward of $20 billion every year in a few decades if the state doesn’t adapt to climate change, according to a new study from the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency.
The Legislature-mandated report, which was released Monday, March 16, says the costs of not adapting to the warming climate are higher than if the state began to make necessary changes.
Minnesota has seen heavier rainfall, smokier air and warmer summers in recent years as a result of climate change, according to the report.
“Investing in adaptation reduces costly risks to the state and its residents,” the report said.
If the state invests more in climate projects, it could cost $2.5 billion to $4.1 billion annually, considerably less than what the long-term negative effects are expected to cost Minnesota. Expenses for failure to adapt could balloon up to $57 billion by 2070.
After a bill to lower license tab fees failed in the Minnesota House transportation committee, the cost is unlikely to go down anytime soon.
In 2023, the legislature increased the tax rate for license tab fees, while at the same time dramatically slowing the rate of depreciation, so you pay a higher rate on an artificially high valuation on your vehicle.
There’s a bill in the house to lower the license tab tax rate from 1.575% of your vehicle’s value to 1.285%, while also speeding up the depreciation of your car.
See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
A professional cornhole player and quadruple amputee has been formally charged with murder and multiple related offenses in connection with a deadly shooting that occurred in Charles County on March 22, 2026.
Dayton James Webber, 27, of La Plata, Md., was arraigned in the District Court of Maryland for Charles County after being located in Charlottesville, Virginia, and arrested following the fatal shooting of 27‑year‑old Bradrick Michael Wells, according to court documents.
United Airlines is launching the North American version of the Air New Zealand Skycouch idea: a dedicated row of three economy seats whose leg rests flip up after takeoff to create a couch or bed-like surface, with a mattress pad, extra bedding, pillows, and family-oriented amenities.
It launches next year, sits between Economy and Premium Plus, and United calls it the “Relax Row.” They plan for ‘up to’ 12 sections per widebody aircraft and a rollout to 200+ widebodies by 2030.
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Nick Shirley is at it again and California may make Minnesota look like a birthday party with their own fraud!!
Nick Shirley just CONFRONTED people walking out of a dilapidated California “hospice center” — which received MILLIONS of tax dollars — and they jumped in expensive cars.
ALL members of the same family. And of course, they ran away.
CALIFORNIA ELECTIONS FRAUD CASH FOR BALLOTS PART I: Homeless Bribed with Cash & Drugs In Exchange For Registering To Vote & Signing Election Petitions Caught On Tape Undercover On Skid Row In California.
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BREAKING: Trump reportedly briefed that Iran’s new Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei is probably gay???
U.S. intelligence believes Iran's new Supreme Leader is gay.
The source: one of the CIA's most protected assets. The confidence: high enough to brief the President.
Iran has executed thousands for exactly this since 1979.
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Starbucks founder Howard Schultz is moving from the Seattle area to Miami Florida. Also Starbucks corp is gradually moving its HQ to Tennessee.
The state of Washington just approved a 9.9% income tax aimed at their people making over $1 million per year. They already have a death tax on estates. Florida has neither.
Expect many other Seattle region high earners to exit this year.
Texas man Curtis Lee Daniels faces up to 10 years in prison after allegedly cheating in a fishing tournament by placing weights inside his largemouth bass.
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St Paul Democrat wants to QUADRUPLE license tab fees in the state of Minnesota!!!
Rep. Luger-Nikolai (D-Saint Paul): "At some point I may offer an amendment to quintuple the rates of these registration fees so that we may fund other projects in the state that everyone deems worthy."
That would equal a ~$3,650 payment on a two-year-old $50,000 vehicle in Hennepin County EVERY YEAR.
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President Donald Trump announced Thursday that he’s replacing Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem with a Republican U.S. senator from Oklahoma.
Trump revealed his decision in a post on Truth Social, saying Sen. Markwayne Mullin will take over on March 31.
“The current Secretary, Kristi Noem, who has served us well, and has had numerous and spectacular results (especially on the Border!), will be moving to be Special Envoy for The Shield of the Americas, our new Security Initiative in the Western Hemisphere we are announcing on Saturday in Doral, Florida. I thank Kristi for her service at ‘Homeland,'” Trump wrote.
The president’s announcement comes two days after Noem faced a grilling on Capitol Hill from both GOP members and Democrats. During that hearing, Noem defended DHS’s immigration enforcement tactics and pushed back against criticism from Democrats who say she wrongly disparaged Renee Good and Alex Pretti after they were killed by federal agents in Minneapolis.
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