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Dear Neighbors,

Governor Tim Walz announced the end of Minnesota’s statewide mask requirement, aligning Minnesota with new Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) guidance on face coverings. Minnesotans who are not fully vaccinated are strongly recommended to wear face coverings indoors. Private businesses and local municipalities may still put in place face covering requirements. And Minnesota’s Safe Learning Plan, along with the existing face covering guidance for schools and child care settings, remain in effect.

If every Minnesotan who can continues to get vaccinated, and those who aren’t yet vaccinated to mask we will soon be able to return normal. We still aren’t out of the woods, but we are very close!

Direct Scheduling for Vaccinations Now Available

Minnesotans can now use the Vaccine Connector to directly schedule COVID-19 vaccine appointments at the state’s Community Vaccination Program locations. You can visit VaccineConnector.mn.gov to directly schedule appointments at Community Vaccination locations around the state. Here is how you can get your shot:

Continue reading “Rep. Steve Elkins (HD49B) Update: May 15, 2021”

Dear Neighbors,

The eyes of the world were on Minnesota this week, while our eyes were glued to the TV as the jury rendered its verdict in the Derek Chauvin murder trial on Tuesday afternoon. The House recessed its floor session and I joined a number of my colleagues in the Speaker’s Capitol office to watch the verdict come in. The collective sigh of relief was followed by a rush of emotion which came to the realization that justice had been done. Lead prosecution attorney Jerry Blackwell is a Bloomington neighbor and fellow resident of our House District, and I am so proud of the work that he and his colleagues did to secure justice in this unprecedented case. 

These last two weeks, we have again been forced to confront our state’s issues around systemic racism and injustice for Black, Brown and Indigenous Minnesotans. I am grateful that Derek Chauvin was held accountable for his murderous actions, but just a week earlier we saw the tragic killing of Daunte Wright. We clearly have significant work to do so that Black lives are valued and all Minnesotans are safe in their communities. I encourage you to read the People of Color and Indigenous Caucus’ statements on the killing of Daunte Wright here, and on the guilty verdict of Derek Chauvin here. 

Continue reading “Rep. Steve Elkins (HD49B) Update: April 23, 2021”