Christopher Snowbeck with the Star Tribune reports: “UnitedHealth Group has named long-time executive Tim Noel as the new chief executive for its massive UnitedHealthcare health insurance business. “The announcement Thursday came a little more than seven weeks after the Dec. 4 murder of Brian Thompson, the UnitedHealthcare CEO who was killed in a fatal ambush on a New York City sidewalk.”
MinnPost’s Ana Radelat has two stories on President Trump’s recent executive actions on Justice Department civil rights cases and immigration, both of which could have huge impacts on Minnesota. For further reading on whether Minneapolis’ consent decree over police reform will be targeted, Alanna Durkin Richer at the Associated Press reports: “… the new administration ‘may wish to reconsider’ such agreements, raising the prospect that it may abandon two consent decrees finalized in the final weeks of the Biden administration in Louisville, Kentucky, and Minneapolis.”
Also from the Star Tribune, Jp Lawrence reports: “Gov. Tim Walz proposed a bonding bill of $887 million that could fix impaired dams and other projects across the state.”
From Bring Me the News: “The Minnesota Department of Health recently released its first findings regarding the impact of long COVID on Minnesotans.”
Cathy Wurzer and Gracie Stockton at MPR News report: “The University of Minnesota’s Mapping Prejudice project now has permission to search another county’s property records for racist housing deeds.
“Stearns County commissioners voted earlier this week to approve a memorandum of understanding with the University of Minnesota Libraries so they could comb for racial covenants — clauses in property deeds that barred specific ethnic groups from owning homes or land.”
WCCO’s Stephen Swanson reports: “‘A Complete Unknown,’ the biopic chronicling the swift pop-cultural ascent of Minnesota native Bob Dylan in the early 1960s, has been nominated for eight Academy Awards.”
