Rep Rick Hansen
State Representative 53B 🌱South St Paul, St Paul Park, Newport, parts of Cottage Grove, Inver Grove Heights & Grey Cloud Island Township🦅
- 🌱Farm Aid is coming to Minnesota to rock for family farmers for the first time in its 40 years! 🚜Starring Willie Nelson & Family, Neil Young & the Chrome Hearts, John Mellencamp, and more… 🗓️ Saturday, September 20th 📍 Huntington Bank Stadium 🎟️ On sale Friday at 10am 🔗 bit.ly/4mjxqrY
- Classic Minnesota State Patrol cars at the Capitol on May 12, 2025.
- Happy Songkran! The New Year is widely celebrated across the world and is one of the most important holidays in Thailand. It is a time when the community comes together to welcome the new beginning. Minnesota Capitol Sunday, May 11, 2025 11 am to 6 pm www.exploreminnesota.com/event/songkr...
- Flowering crabapple May 10, 2025
- Jake Williams (Wisconsin) Terry Altherr (Massachusetts) Pao Choua Yang (owner-Orange hard hat) Caleb Rohrer (Minnesota) Clayton Brown (Kentucky) and P.J. Errera (Ohio). Young 🟦Democrats of America Rural 🚜Caucus tour Long Cheng butcher in South St Paul, Minnesota 5/10/25
- “What I worry about is that when problems are not addressed, people will not know who is responsible. And when the problems get bad enough ... some one person will come forward and say, ‘Give me total power & I will solve this problem.’ That is how the Roman republic fell,” —-Souter 2012 interview.
- 🌱Starting House / Senate Agriculture Finance 💵bill Conference Committee meeting now to go thru Side by Side bill comparison #mnleg #Agriculture
- Ducks🦆Unlimited State Capitol Chapter banquet💧🦆💧🦆💧#mnleg
- Who else is looking forward to #WorldBeeDay on 20 May? The theme for 2025 - bee 🐝inspired by nature to nourish us all - shows the critical roles of bees and other pollinators in food systems and the health of our planet’s ecosystems. 🐝🐝🐝
- Mosquitoes are getting bigger🦟🦟🦟https://www.cdc.gov/mosquitoes/index.html
- Reposted by Rep Rick HansenClear moment of panic from DHS as they realized that they were about to have TSA turn away over half a million people a day at airports. Regardless, if that many people are getting extra screenings, get to the airport EARLY.
- ✅Two weeks left in the Minnesota Legislative session and ☀️Thank you to Rep Jess Hanson for this amazing Bee🐝Kind embroidery #mnleg #savethebees #pollinators
- Polyporus squamosus or Dryads Saddle, Pheasant’s Back Mushroom. Fillmore county, MN Pheasant’s Back appear in ☀️spring, & again in the fall. They are usually one of the first mushrooms to appear in the spring, commonly found at the same time as morels. midwestmycology.org/polyporus-sq...
- Tree 🌳planting on May 3, 2025. Planted a variety of hardwoods☀️🍁🍒🌱✅
- Clean Water💧🌎advocate
- ✅Big crowd supporting conservation at Blufflands Whitetails Association Banquet 🦌🟧🦌🟧🦌tonight #deer #deerhunting #habitat
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- With student leader Marcus Wessman, Class of 2025, showing support for HF 2023 : www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/bill.p... Passed 133-0
- It is Spring🌱at the Minnesota Capitol when Three Rivers Park District bring baby lambs 🐑 to the Capitol #mnleg
- Erythronium albidum (White Trout Lily) Emerging thru the Oak Leaves, April 27, 2025 www.minnesotawildflowers.info/flower/white...
- Bloodroot, Sanguinaria canadensis 🌱the only species in this genus in the poppy family (Papaveraceae). 🌱This species is found in undisturbed woodlands. The reddish 🟥sap that exudes from all parts of the plant, but especially the root, when cut is what prompted the common name of bloodroot.
- Legislative Audit Report: 🌳🌲🌱Department of Natural Resources Land Acquisition: www.auditor.leg.state.mn.us/ped/2025/DNR...
- The Minnesota House of Representatives will debate the 🌱Agriculture 🌾Finance budget bill today. It is the first 💵budget to be debated in the 67-67 tied Minnesota House🇺🇸
- MSRA Run to the Hill🚘🚙🚗🛻🇺🇸
- South St Paul Local Issues meeting this morning☀️
- Happy 🌎 Earth Day!
- Earth 🌎 Day at the Minnesota Capitol🌱
- Suzanne planting potatoes. 🌱🥔the day after Good Friday. 4/19/25
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- Water 💧Quality. Evidence is our armor. #waterquality
- Speaking at #HarkinOnWellness panel on agriculture, water & public health 💧🌾✏️at Drake University
- Drinking Water💧💧💧News
- Prairie 🌾🔥burn on Conservation Reserve Program tracts, Fillmore County, Minnesota. April 13, 2025
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- Mn House committee passes bipartisan Agriculture🌱bill:
- PFAS questions and answers in Minnesota House Capital Investment Committee. April 8, 2025
- New coffee☕️shop in Inver Grove Heights, Minnesota. Cuppa More Books📕📗📘
- Materials are posted for tomorrow’s 4/8 Capital Investment at the committee’s webpage below: www.house.mn.gov/Committees/h... The hearing will start with a 20-minute update from the AG’s office on PFAS litigation and then move to bonding bill presentations on an informational only basis.
- Regulatory Capture
- Reposted by Rep Rick Hansen“Nearly two-thirds of private Swisher wells that have been tested in the past two years are tainted by PFAS, a group of synthetic compounds commonly known as ‘forever chemicals.’” www.thegazette.com/article/stat...
- 🇺🇸🇺🇸HF 2171, a resolution that reaffirms Minnesota’s support for the Child Labor Amendment. We ratified this amendment in 1933, authorizing Congress to regulate the labor of people under 18 years old. UFCW Local 1189 organizer Bernie Hesse testified in support www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/text.p...
- ✏️Legislative Audit Commission @MNLegAud Meeting Hearing Evaluation Report: ✏️Guardianship of Adults · To what extent does the Judicial Branch effectively oversee the guardianship of adults in Minnesota? · at: auditor.leg.state.mn.us
- Today in Capital Investment Committee, I presented 2 bills with South St. Paul Mayor Jimmy Francis. One bill funds a new public works facility, making critical investments to replace a building, & a bill to design a new swimming pool, as our current Northview pool is leaking 12,000 gallons/day.
- ✅Capital Investment 💵Committee this morning ☀️Public Works projects for South St Paul
- This ☀️morning with snow❄️
- Lawns2Legumes is the most popular🐝environmental program in Minnesota this century! 41,000 ☀️Minnesotans have applied to convert their lawn to pollinator 🌱habitat ✅ bwsr.state.mn.us/l2l
- House Budget Target Released: www.house.mn.gov/SessionDaily...
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- Bird flu press conference Minnesota today March 26, 2025
- Officials said dairy🐄 farmers should monitor their herd and contact their veterinarian immediately if 🐄cows appear sick. Rep. Rick Hansen (DFL-South St. Paul) called for added safeguards on top of testing, including monitoring the wastewater supply for the virus.
- Program Evaluation of DEED Grants Management ✏️📓Legislative Audit www.auditor.leg.state.mn.us/ped/2025/dee...
- ☀️Lawns2Lunch🫛🥦🥬🥒🥕🫑🌶️🧅🥔🧄 ✅A bill for an act relating to natural resources; appropriating money for lawns to lunch pilot program. ✅Presented HF 1611 today: www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/text.p...
- “panem et circenses”
- ✅Great day with Jesse Terry, a student in Professor Dornink’s “Agriculture Policy and Issues in Minnesota” ✏️course this semester. Today Jesse shadowed me as part of his legislative visit! He is currently a senior Political 📓Science major at Macalester College🌱. Future leaders are here!☀️
