March 5 - GROCERY BAGS & FLAGS

House Minority Leader Lisa Demuth celebrates with her caucus supporters while a judge moves in to check her work after she repeated as the Minnesota Grocers Association’s 2024 Bipartisan Grocery Bag-off champion held in the rotunda. Members of the United Food and Commercial Workers Union Local 663 filled the rotunda during the contest seeking fair wages for essential grocery workers.

Sen. Steve Drazkowski holds up a pile of public comments on the design of the new state flag.

Mohamed Wardole, left, and Republican Party Deputy Chair Donna Bergstrom, right, attend a news conference where several Republican House and Senate members would like to let Minnesotans vote on a new state flag design.

Rep. Bjorn Olson, a former member of the State Flag Design Commission, tells reporters during a news conference at the Capitol that Minnesotans should vote on a design for a new state flag.

Scott Hesselgrave holds the current Minnesota state flag during a Capitol news conference where several Republican House and Senate members seek to have Minnesotans vote on a new state flag design.