Daily Digest: Secret plan to bring jobs to the Range

Good morning, and welcome to Monday and a new work week. The Legislature is due back in St. Paul after a long weekend and now has less than a month to go before the session must end. Here's the Digest:

1. One thing lawmakers are doing is working on a series of incentives designed to draw a major manufacturing plant to the economically troubled Iron Range. The only catch is that no one will say what the company is. (MPR News)

2. State lawmakers are considering creating license requirements for a number of jobs, including massage and music therapists, clinical lactation specialists, and eyelash technicians. The proposals come amid a national debate about licensing requirements for jobs that that have not required licenses in the past. (Star Tribune)

3. Target's effort to reach out to transgender people by allowing them to use restrooms and fitting rooms of the sex they identify with has stirred a backlash. A conservative group has launched a boycott effort that has already drawn more than 450,000 signatures. (Star Tribune)

4. Ted Cruz and John Kasich are joining forces to try to stop Donald Trump from winning enough delegates to claim the Republican presidential nomination on the first ballot. The pair issued statements late last night saying Cruz will focus on Indiana and Kasich will campaign in Oregon and New Mexico. But with Trump on a roll, it may be too late to stop him. (CNN)

5. What does Bernie Sanders want? Now that it looks like he can't win the Democratic nomination his allies plan to push for changes in the party platform to support a $15 per hour minimum wage, a ban on fracking and breaking up Wall Street banks. (New York Times)

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