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Year-round summer E15 is one step closer to reality after the House of Representatives approved a bill authorizing summer sales Wednesday evening. In a bipartisan vote that split members of both parties, lawmakers approved the Nationwide Consumer and Fuel Retailer Choice Act by a margin of 218-203. The bill now heads to the Senate where it faces an uncertain future. President Donald Trump indicated he plans to sign the bill if it gets to his desk.
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- The bicameral Let Kids Play Act, introduced May 13, 2026, automatically designates any private equity fund invested in youth sports as a “vulture investor” 91 days after enactment unless the firm files a sworn certification of compliance within 60 days.
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On Friday, May 8, Mayor Anne Burt and other Woodbury dignitaries participated in a groundbreaking ceremony for the city’s new Public Safety Complex.
The project, expected to cost around $60 million, is a renovation and expansion of the current public safety building on Radio Drive.
The importance of the project, and the help received from Woodbury and Minnesota’s elected leaders, was evident in the range of public representatives present at the event.
Until Woodbury’s Public Safety Campus Project is complete, public safety services will temporarily run out of the former Washington County Service Center, Woodbury City Hall and other EMS and Fire stations in the city.
“It’s just so exciting,” Woodbury Mayor Anne Burt said. “It has taken many years to get to this point.”
INVER GROVE HEIGHTS, MN – Today, U.S. Representative Angie Craig hosted a roundtable in Inver Grove Heights with State Representative Robert Bierman, Trent Andersen from Protect Our Care and Bob Miller and Dan Spano, Minnesotans who have been impacted by our broken health care system. During the roundtable, the panelists discussed her new legislation to hold health insurance companies accountable for above average-denial rates and refund patients for health care costs that should have been covered by insurance.
EL PASO, TX – Today, as part of her continued efforts to get her constituent Andrea Pedro-Francisco released from ICE custody so that she can receive the care that she needs, U.S. Representative Angie Craig traveled to El Paso, TX to visit Pedro-Francisco and conduct oversight of two ICE detention facilities. Pedro-Francisco is currently being held at the El Paso Service Processing Center after having been detained at Camp East Montana.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement says it will not release a Minnesota woman facing deportation on humanitarian parole to receive surgery to remove a painful, tennis ball-sized ovarian cyst at risk of causing severe medical complications.
'We've got to do better' congressional members demand at Camp East Montana
U.S. Rep. Angie Craig felt a wave of emotions as she walked through Camp East Montana on her first visit to the sprawling immigration detention center in El Paso.
Craig was not allowed to speak with anyone during her nearly two-hour oversight visit. But she could see the despair in the detainees' eyes.
U.S. Rep. Angie Craig has confirmed that medical staff at ICE's El Paso service processing center have confirmed that her detained constituent, Andrea Pedro Francisco, has a large ovarian cyst after a ultrasound was performed.
Craig announced the confirmation after spending around 40 minutes with Pedro Francisco on Monday, May 4. The congresswoman from Minnesota traveled to El Paso to meet with the 23-year-old Guatemalan immigrant who had been detained during ICE's operations in the state.
EL PASO, TEXAS (KFOX14/CBS4) — Minnesota Rep. Angie Craig's visit to El Paso's Camp East Montana on Monday is raising questions about the medical care inside the detention facility, as the congresswoman calls for urgent medical care for a detained Minnesota woman with an ovarian cyst.
The Democratic congresswoman traveled to El Paso on Monday to tour the facility and visit 23-year-old Andrea Pedro-Francisco, who has been suffering from an ovarian cyst since before she was detained on Feb. 5 in Minnesota.