Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan, a member of the White Earth Nation, is the nation's highest ranking Native woman elected to executive office. Flanagan shown here speaking before a march for missing and murdered Indigenous women in Minneapolis in February 2020. Photo by Max Nesterak/Minnesota Reformer.
The DFL-controlled Minnesota Legislature passed legislation this year that could result in scores of people being released from prison sooner; shorter terms of probation or community supervision; erasure of some aiding and abetting felony convictions and reduction in sentences of others; and easier expungement of certain non-violent crimes. Getty Images
Students from Webster Elementary School in northeast Minneapolis hugged Gov. Tim Walz after he signed a bill on March 17 providing free breakfast and lunch to Minnesota students. Photo by Michelle Griffith/Minnesota Reformer.
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.
