Minnesota Capitol security is ‘lax’

For those who work at the Capitol, security is front of mind following the assassinations of Melissa and Mark Hortman this summer. On Monday, the Advisory Committee on Capitol Security learned that the Minnesota Capitol is “an outlier among state houses for its relatively lax security,” according to findings presented by the National Conference of State Legislatures, Minnesota Reformer reports.

The Minnesota Court of Appeals has ruled that “the moment a driver needs to stop for a school bus is when the stop-signal arm is fully extended, not when it is in the process of being extended.” The decision came after a Baxter, Minn., woman fought her 2024 charge related to failing to stop for a school bus, the Minnesota Star Tribune reports. The woman’s charge is now overturned because she drove by the bus when the arm wasn’t quite at full extension.

The risk of contracting swimmer’s itch is par for the course for those of us who like to take dips in Minnesota’s many lakes during the summer months, but MPR News reports that in the past few years, “reports of severe cases of swimmer’s itch have been on the rise.” Scientists are trying to figure out why.

Before his assassination earlier this month, Charlie Kirk’s “The American Comeback Tour,” was scheduled to take place on the University of Minnesota Twin Cities campus, Fox 9 reports. On Monday, the scheduled event played on, with conservative political commentator Michael Knowles in Kirk’s stead.

Chaska artist James Hautman won the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s 2025 Federal Duck Stamp Art Contest … for the seventh time. “Every year, the sale of the stamp raises about $40 million to support conservation of wetland habitats in the National Wildlife Refuge System,” according to Bring Me the News.

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