Supporting Hometown Heroes / Restoring Mental Competency / Promoting Hemp Farms

On this week's program, Senator Jeff Howe, R-Rockville, highlights the importance of the Hometown Heroes Assistance Program, which was recently extended to provide continued financial assistance to firefighters and first responders who develop job-related illnesses and trauma. 

Also, Senator Karla Bigham, DFL-Cottage Grove, joins moderator Shannon Loehrke to discuss a new law that establishes a process for restoring mental competency to defendants determined to be unable to participate in their own defense.

Finally, Hemp Acres in Waconia, Minnesota, recently celebrated its grand opening of a new hemp processing facility with Governor Tim Walz, as agriculture officials promote a growth industry supplying hemp ingredients for food manufacturing, construction, animal husbandry, supplements, brewing and bioplastics.