Tina Smith: “If you do not have a safe, decent place to call home, nothing else in your life works.”

I think we're at a tipping point.

But many rural hospitals face increasingly dire financial strain and workforce shortages, forcing them to cut services or even close down altogether.

The number of vector-borne disease cases in Minnesota and across the country is on the rise.

I rise today because my friend Melissa Hortman, speaker emerita of the Minnesota State House, incredible person and strong leader, was shot and killed Saturday morning, along with her husband Mark, in a tragic, politically motivated…