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a day ago
- Entertainment
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Stuttgart to host Franz Beckenbauer Supercup against Bayern
Stuttgart's Atakan Karazor celebrates with the trophy at the reception on the Schlossplatz after winning the final aginst Arminia Bielefeld. Uli Deck/dpa VfB Stuttgart will host the Franz Beckenbauer Supercup against Bayern Munich on August 16, the German Football League (DFL) said in a statement on Friday. The match, previously known as German Supercup, pits the German Cup winner against the Bundesliga champions. As Cup winners, Stuttgart have the right to play at home. Advertisement The game was named after Germany and Bayern great Beckenbauer following his death in January 2024. The visual identity of the event will also receive a new look, characterized by gold tones, and a new logo, which depicts Beckenbauer in action and will adorn the trophy. The DFL said that the supporting programme in Stuttgart will also be dedicated to "the legacy of the player and the personality of Franz Beckenbauer."
Yahoo
2 days ago
- General
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Stadium announcements by referees to be available in German football
a view of the scoreboard informing about refree's announcements during the German Bundesliga soccer match between Bayern Munich and Holstein Kiel at the Allianz Arena. Starting next season, in-stadium announcements by match referees are to be available in all stadiums in Germany's Bundesliga and second division, a spokesperson for the German Football League (DFL) said. Sven Hoppe/dpa Starting next season, in-stadium announcements by match referees are to be available in all stadiums in Germany's Bundesliga and second division, a spokesperson for the German Football League (DFL) said. The DFL football commission has issued a corresponding unanimous recommendation to the executive committee of organization. Approval is considered highly likely. Advertisement This year, the DFL did a trial of the system in nine stadiums in the first and second divisions. Referees would use the sound system to clarify their decisions to the public to lead to more transparency after video assistant referee (VAR) interventions. Including the German Cup matches, there were a total of 24 announcements by the referees. According to an interim report, the procedure and the technology worked well.
Yahoo
3 days ago
- Business
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State worker layoff notices likely despite budget deal among lawmakers near
The Brief Minnesota's budget negotiations may be close to the finish line, but thousands of state employees will probably be getting layoff notices next week. The state government would shut down on July 1 without a deal, and those notices have to go out a month in advance. Gov. Tim Walz says he's not happy that it seems inevitable the notices will go out, but he's confident the layoffs won't come to pass. He expects there will be a budget, possibly as soon as Wednesday night. ST. PAUL, Minn. (FOX 9) - Minnesota's long budget nightmare may be nearing an end. 10 p.m. pledge FOX 9 learned about a semi-secret deadline Wednesday night, and leaders are pledging to stick to it. But state employees are still likely to get layoff notices before it's all said and done. A longer wait could turn a lot of lives upside down. "My pledge is by 10 o'clock tonight, we get this thing buttoned up," Gov. Tim Walz said on Wednesday morning. The finish line looks pretty close to Gov. Walz and most legislative leaders. But nine days after the end of the regular session, there are still gaps in the negotiations for a budget. "It's been a real challenge because basically every single legislator has a veto," the governor said. The House is split 67-67 with a Republican serving as Speaker. The DFL controls the Senate with a 34-33 majority. Show your work A total of 11 working groups - made up of members of both legislative bodies and both parties - set out last week to sew up deals on big omnibus bills, mostly in private. We know a few of them have finished the job, including human services on Tuesday night. But with a government shutdown looming on July 1, and no special session announced, the state will have to give layoff notices next week to employees deemed not to work in "critical services". "When the legislature doesn't do their job, and they don't get a budget deal and everything done by June 1, their lives hang in the balance," said Bart Andersen, executive director for AFSCME Council 5. Liquor, beer, and parks, oh my Andersen represents more than 18,000 state employees doing everything from health science, to regulating liquor and beer. Without them on the job, important operations wouldn't function. "For folks that are wanting to go to state campgrounds, we're not sure who's going to be there to maintain the facilities to make sure trash is picked up, things like that," Andersen said. He says just getting the notices is disruptive. Some state workers will probably find other jobs. Others will just live in the stress, even with reassurance from Gov. Walz. "I am not happy about that, but it's the nature of it," the governor said about layoff notices on Wednesday. "But we're going to get it done. So if they go out, there will be letter of the law to get that done, but it's not because there's not going to be a budget." What's next The governor and legislative leaders planned to meet again Wednesday night with the hopes of breaking small logjams and finalizing bills. But even if they met the 10 p.m. goal, the special session would probably happen next week and those layoff notices have to go out, just in case it all falls apart.
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4 days ago
- Health
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Immigrant rights activists protest plan to end low-cost health insurance for undocumented adults
Demonstrators gather for a protest organized by the Minnesota Immigrant Rights Action Committee calling for the continuation of MinnesotaCare for undocumented adults outside of the Governor's Reception Room at the Minnesota State Capitol Tuesday, May 27, 2025. (Photo by Nicole Neri/Minnesota Reformer) Minnesota immigrants voiced outrage Tuesday about a planned rollback of a law that allowed undocumented adults to access low-cost health insurance. Dozens of immigrant rights activists chanted in English and Spanish outside the governor's reception room in the Capitol Tuesday afternoon, slamming Gov. Tim Walz and his fellow Democrats for making a deal with Republicans to end undocumented adults' eligibility in MinnesotaCare, the state-subsidized health insurance program for the working poor. The Democratic-Farmer-Labor-controlled 2023 Legislature opened up MinnesotaCare to undocumented Minnesotans. Undocumented people could start enrolling in MinnesotaCare on Jan. 1; roughly 20,000 are now on the rolls. If the deal goes through as expected, however, their coverage would expire at the end of the year. Walz and DFL legislative leaders Rep. Melissa Hortman and Senate Majority Leader Erin Murphy need Republican support to craft a two-year state budget because Republicans share control of the House, 67-67. If lawmakers don't pass a budget by the end of June, state government will shut down. Budget bills — many of them still outstanding — will require Republican support to pass the House, and Republicans have made kicking undocumented immigrants off of MinnesotaCare a top priority in negotiations. Walz and DFL leaders joined Republican House Speaker Lisa Demuth at a press conference on May 15 announcing a budget deal that included removing undocumented adults, but not children, from MinnesotaCare. 'Why should immigrants continue to vote for the Democratic party?' immigrant rights activist and Minneapolis City Council candidate Emilio Rodríguez said to the crowd on Tuesday. He also criticized 'pro-life' Republican politicians who support the revocation of health care for immigrants. 'DFL, shame on you. Immigrants are people too,' protesters chanted. They also repeated a slogan long used in Latin America to protest tyrannical governments: 'El pueblo unido jamás será vencido,' which means 'the people united will never be defeated.' Walz wasn't in the reception room during the protest; he was receiving a briefing from the National Guard at the time, a spokesperson said. José Méndez, a Mexico-born mechanic and immigrant rights activist, said he's thankful to have health insurance through his job, but he has several friends who were only able to access health insurance when MinnesotaCare expanded eligibility in January. For Méndez, the rollback of health insurance for undocumented adults is just one of the many abuses immigrants have suffered in the United States: low pay, racism, discrimination by law enforcement officers. Republicans who control the federal government are ramping up deportations and revoking other benefits from immigrants. Méndez is also opposed to a proposed tax on remittances — money that immigrants send to their family in their home country — included in the U.S. House Republican tax bill. 'Now they want to take away our health care,' Méndez said in Spanish. 'Instead of helping us, they want to screw us over even more.'
Yahoo
24-05-2025
- Politics
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Minn. Sen. Gary Dahms says close split played role in forcing special session
May 24---- Differences over funding for health care coverage for undocumented immigrants was the major sticking point that upended a budget agreement and has led the to need a special session to finalize a budget, according to State Sen. Gary Dahms, R- . Dahms told attendees at a town hall meeting in Granite Falls on Wednesday that the divided Legislature — with 100 Republicans and 101 Democrats — made it far more difficult to reach compromise than many had expected. "It's hard to maneuver and get much done," he said. The tight split meant the relatively small People of Color and Indigenous caucus within the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party had the leverage to stop an agreement that would have ended health care coverage for undocumented immigrants ages 18 and over beginning Jan. 1, 2026. Coverage would have continued for their children as part of a compromise agreement, according to Dahms. The caucus consists of five House and five Senate DFL'ers, and they protested what Dahms termed a "reasonable" budget agreement the two parties' leaders had approved one week ago. The Legislature is expected to hold a three-day special session in the coming week to resolve its budget differences. While stating it was not the cause, Dahms also criticized the decision by DFL'ers in the House not to gather in St. Paul for the first 23 days of the session as contributing to the current situation. A dispute over a residency challenge led House DFL members to boycott the start of the session until it was resolved. Republicans continued to meet, but they lacked a quorum to approve legislation, according to a State Supreme Court ruling. The absence of DFL members at the session's start served to slow the process as Senate committees waited for House committees to complete their bills, Dahms explained. "Most of us realized down the road how big of an impact that was going to happen," he said. The Wednesday town hall meeting was to have included State Rep. Chris Swedzinski, R-Ghent, but Swedzinski had to remain in St. Paul as part of the negotiations taking place prior to the special session, according to Dahms. The two jointly host after-session town halls in their districts, but this year's work remains unfinished. There remains uncertainty as to the fate of a number of measures. Dahms said the greater share of expected spending cuts in the new budget will be in the form of "shifts" in responsibilities to counties and cities. Some of the biggest shifts will occur in support for skilled nursing care for the elderly, Dahms said. Overall, he warned that the shift in burdens to counties and cities will result in an average 10% to 12% property tax increase, although the actual impact will vary among the counties. Add inflation, and local governments could be raising property taxes by 14% to 18%, according to one projection he has seen. "That is just unaffordable," Dahms said. On top of the shift in burden, Dahms said the latest budget proposal — as of the town hall meeting — calls for decreasing state aid to nursing homes by $250 million. "No way they can take that," he said. Dahms said the expected cut to nursing homes is roughly the same as the projected costs for continuing health care coverage for undocumented immigrants. Dahms said he expects that a $700 million capital investment or bonding bill will be approved in special session. It is much lower than the $1.2 billion that Senate DFL'ers are seeking, he said. The $700 million is based on an analysis from the Office of Budget Management. A larger, $1.2 billion bonding bill will likely be taken up for debate in the next session, he said.
