ELMONT, N.Y. – One of the costly turnovers — and there were several by both teams — in the Minnesota Wild’s 5-4 overtime loss to the New York Rangers earlier this week came when defenseman Declan Chisholm lost control of the puck at the side of the Minnesota net, and New York forward Chris Kreider pounced, giving the Rangers their first lead of the game.

For Friday’s game versus the Islanders in the New York City suburbs, Chisholm was a healthy scratch and Jon Merrill took his place on the Minnesota blue line. At the Wild’s morning skate at UBS Arena on Friday morning, when asked about the change, and the costly mistake two days earlier, coach John Hynes stressed that the lineup change was not in any way about punishing Chisholm.

“Chisholm’s not coming out because he turned the puck over, to be very honest,” Hynes said. “We made other mistakes in the game. (Justin Brazeau) made one in New Jersey. I think that when you’re looking at roles and pairs and different things like that, Chisholm’s been a big reason why we are where we are.”

In fact, when the Wild have been mostly healthy on defense, and veteran Jonas Brodin has been in the lineup (he has missed multiple games due to injury on four separate occasions this season), Chisholm and Merrill have rotated in and out of the lineup, and Hynes had nothing but praise for both. Chisholm has played in 62 of the Wild’s 77 games, missing four due to injury.

“We’ve had massive injuries at D all year long. This kid’s come in and played great hockey for us,” Hynes said. “I just think when you look at the roles, it seems that at this point right now, he’s a good pairing defenseman when he plays with (captain Jared) Spurgeon, and he plays different minutes…Right now where we’re at in the season, it’s strictly role based and pairing based. If there happens to be an injury in the top four (defensemen), then that’s Chizzy’s spot.”

Chisholm, 25, is in his first full season with the Wild after coming over from Winnipeg in a waiver claim last season. He has two goals and 10 assists.

Zuccarello honors New York media legend

Sam Rosen, the longtime television voice of the New York Rangers, is retiring this season after 40 years behind the microphone at Madison Square Garden and wherever the “Broadway Blueshirts” play on the road.

Born in Germany, Rosen and his family immigrated to Brooklyn when he was just two years old. Wild forward Mats Zuccarello, who spent parts of nine seasons with the Rangers, became friends with Rosen, 77. Before the final game he would play with Rosen behind the microphone, the Minnesota standout offered a special tribute.

During warmups at Madison Square Garden, Zuccarello wore a Wild sweater with Rosen’s name on the back and the number 40 on it, in honor of the broadcaster’s four decades of work. After warmups, each Wild player signed the sweater and Zuccarello presented it to Rosen after the game.

“It’s about the respect. He’s been in the game for 40 years. He’s a legend in the game, especially here in New York. So, yeah, it was out of respect that we all signed a jersey for him,” Zuccarello said in the postgame locker room. “Obviously I spent some time with him and around him. So, for me it’s kind of a thank you and a special night…last game he’s going to commentate of me. So, I think it’s a nice token of respect from the team and wish him good luck on his retirement.”

Rosen was enshrined in the Hockey Hall of Fame’s broadcasting wing in 2016.

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“Through a tax on the mega-rich, the Livable New York Act would fund 100,000 units of deeply affordable housing and transition every building in New York off of fossil fuels over the next 10 years—all while creating tens of thousands of good union jobs for New Yorkers.”

Mayor Eric Adams and Gov. Kathy Hochul at a press conference in 2023. (Darren McGee/Office of Governor Kathy Hochul)

Somehow, inexplicably, Eric Adams is still mayor of New York City, despite clear evidence that he persuaded the Trump administration to drop his corruption case in exchange for enforcing the president’s controversial agenda. 

New Yorkers have a right to be worried. The president’s stated priorities—mass deportations, billionaire tax breaks, corporate giveaways, and planet-warming fossil fuels—won’t do anything to make our city better or more livable for the 8 million people who call it home. 

What New Yorkers really need are solutions to the crises they face every single day: soaring rents, low-paying jobs, and a rapidly heating planet. And since we can’t count on Mayor Eric Adams to fix our most pressing problems, we need Gov. Kathy Hochul to step in.

Where should she start? Easy. The beginning. At our most basic level, every human needs a few key essentials to survive: clean air and water, food, and a safe home to protect them and their loved ones from the elements. It sounds simple, but it’s remarkable how many politicians have taken these fundamentals for granted. 

Just look at New York. In one recent analysis of the most affordable states in the nation, the Empire State ranked dead last. Residents here will spend 78.7 percent of their income on basics and have just $16,913 of their median annual income left over.

The affordability crisis is painfully real, and yet it’s only half the problem. The other half is global warming and pollution. Filthy air, contaminated drinking water, rising temperatures, and growing flood risks are all top of mind for families across the five boroughs. 

The good news is that the legislative session is still underway, and there’s a piece of sweeping legislation that meets the scale of these crises head on: the Livable New York Act.

The Livable New York Act is the kind of ambitious public works project that New York used to be known for, and could be again under Gov. Hochul’s leadership.

Here’s how it works: Through a tax on the mega-rich, the Livable New York Act would fund 100,000 units of deeply affordable housing and transition every building in New York off of fossil fuels over the next 10 years—all while creating tens of thousands of good union jobs for New Yorkers, regardless of immigration status and criminal history.

It’s exactly the kind of big-thinking that New York needs. A new New Deal that answers the affordability and climate crises and puts people immediately back to work in family-sustaining jobs. 

New Yorkers can’t afford to wait. Buildings currently produce two-thirds of the city’s climate-heating emissions, while competition for limited housing forces more and more residents into substandard homes. 

Corporate interests will surely balk at a tax on New York’s ultra rich, but Gov. Hochul shouldn’t cave. Everyday New Yorkers are fed up with unchecked corporate greed and rising inequality and they’re looking to Democrats to step up and be the visionary leaders that working families need. 

New York has always paved the way for progress, and there has never been a more important moment for our state to lead the fight for a safer, more affordable future. Gov. Hochul must step in and be the antidote to Trump and Eric Adams. She can do that by standing firmly on the side of everyday New Yorkers for a more livable New York.

Olivia Leirer is co-director at New York Communities for Change.

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More than 180 construction projects will take place on Minnesota roads and bridges this year, the Minnesota Department of Transportation announced.

One major project will require closures this weekend in Minneapolis as MnDOT performs maintenance and repair work on five bridges over and near the Mississippi River.

(Courtesy of the Minnesota Department of Transportation)

Eastbound Interstate 94 will be closed between 11th Avenue South and Franklin Avenue Southeast from 10 p.m. Friday through 5 a.m. Monday. The ramp from northbound I-35W to eastbound I-94 also will be closed.

Meanwhile, several lanes of westbound I-94 will be closed at various times over the weekend in the same 11th Avenue to Franklin Avenue segment.

Find out more about ongoing ramp and lane closures in the I-94 Minneapolis project area at dot.state.mn.us/metro/projects/i94minneapolis.

Here are some other significant projects planned for 2025, according to MnDOT:

Minnesota 5 and U.S. 61 in St. Paul and Maplewood: Reconstruction.

I-94 and I-35E in St. Paul: Repairing 11 bridges including the John Ireland bridge.

I-35W in Burnsville: Resurfacing and repairing or replacing three bridges.

I-494 between Edina and Richfield: Replacing or repairing bridges over the Minnesota River.

I-394 and I-94 in Minneapolis: Repairing 34 bridges and ramps.

U.S. 10 in Coon Rapids: Adding a third lane in each direction.

I-35 Hinckley Bridge: Completing a three-year replacement project.

Visit mndot.gov/construction for the statewide view of the 2025 construction season’s projects. The site includes interactive maps linking to more detailed construction project websites, full project lists and other information.

Get real-time information about traffic and road conditions at 511mn.org or get the free 511mn smartphone app at Google Play or the App Store.

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According to advocates who spoke with City Limits, the memorandum is yet another effort by the Trump administration to target immigrants and doesn’t constitute a basis for eviction.

HUD Secretary Scott Turner and DHS Secretary Kristi Noem announcing the “American Housing Programs for American Citizens” memo on March 24, 2025. (YouTube/HUD)

On March 24, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) announced a partnership with the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), which will create “a point of contact” between the two federal agencies to share data about undocumented immigrants living in government-subsidized housing.

“By working more closely together and with greater collaboration, we will identify illegal aliens who are ineligible for Federal housing assistance and take remedial measures to end this waste and abuse, including referral for immigration enforcement actions,” reads the Memorandum of Understanding, or MOU.

But local officials are so far unsure of what the memo, dubbed “American Housing Programs for American Citizens,” means for their agencies and the city’s sanctuary laws.

Undocumented people are already prohibited from receiving federal housing subsidies directly. Eligibility for federal housing assistance is limited to U.S. citizens and non-citizens with a qualifying immigration status, such as a lawful permanent resident (also known as a “green card” holder), refugee or asylee, among others, according to advocates and the city’s Department of Housing, Preservation and Development (HPD). 

Immigrants who don’t qualify, however, can live in a household that receives a federal subsidy as long as other members of that household qualify, with the amount of aid based on the number of people who are eligible. 

For instance, if an immigrant without legal status is living with U.S born children who qualify, the household would receive a smaller subsidy and pay a higher portion of the rent to take the ineligible family member into account. This is known as prorated support.

“Their assistance is already pro-rated to only cover eligible household members,” the Alliance for Housing Justice, a national advocacy group, said in a statement last week in response to the memo, saying HUD Secretary Scott Turner is “misrepresenting how his agency’s programs actually work.”

“This isn’t about program integrity—it’s about surveillance, fear, and falsely blaming immigrant families for the failures of a housing system that puts profits over everyday people,” the group said.

A HUD spokesperson said that “the purpose of the MOU is to establish information sharing between HUD and DHS to ensure illegal aliens are not in public housing,” but did not elaborate.

According to Anna Luft, project director of the New York Legal Assistance Group’s Public Housing Justice Project, the memorandum applies to all HUD-subsidized housing, including Section 8—also known as the Housing Choice Voucher Program, which provides rental assistance to low- and moderate-income families—and public housing authorities that run such programs.

In New York City, there are three major public housing authorities: The New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA), which administers a Section 8 program as well Section 9 public housing developments, HPD, and the Division of Housing and Community Renewal (DHCR), which is part of the the state’s affordable housing agency, New York State Homes and Community Renewal (HCR).

Only HPD said it falls within the scope of the MOU. A NYCHA spokesperson said, “NYCHA is not a party to this MOU,” despite being the largest public housing agency in the city. An HCR spokesperson did not specify what the MOU means for its programs, only saying that “as we continue to monitor the impact of these actions, Governor Hochul is fighting to ensure the safety and wellbeing of all New Yorkers.”

According to advocates who spoke with City Limits, the memorandum is yet another effort by the Trump administration to target immigrants and doesn’t constitute a basis for eviction. Even before the election, Donald Trump was on the campaign trail blaming immigrants for the “housing crisis” and the “rising housing costs,” even though economists and researchers disagree.

Like many of Trump’s proposals in his second term so far, this one has roots in his first time in office. In 2019, the Trump administration proposed a policy rule change that would have essentially banned families with mixed immigration statuses from living in public or federally subsidized housing. In 2021, the Biden administration withdrew Trump’s proposed rule, so it was never implemented.

A 2019 HUD regulatory impact analysis estimated that approximately 25,000 households receiving a federal subsidy nationwide had at least one ineligible member.

“Geographically, 72 percent of mixed families are concentrated in three states—California (37 percent), Texas (23 percent), and New York (12 percent)—while the rest is scattered around the country with 3 percent or less mixed families per state,” reads the HUD’s analysis.

An HPD spokesperson reiterated that HUD regulations for federal rental subsidy programs, including Section 8 vouchers, already limit eligibility to households with at least one member who has a qualifying immigration status, with the housing subsidy a household receives prorated based on the number of eligible members.

In NYC, HPD provides rental vouchers, including Section 8, to a total of 42,000 households, a spokesperson detailed. Of those, approximately 5,900 have members with eligible immigrant status, and about 350 Section 8 households are of mixed immigration status.

It’s unclear whether the city’s sanctuary laws, which restrict local agencies from sharing identifying information with federal immigration authorities, might play a role under the new data-sharing agreement and if so, how.

Because households must declare their citizenship and eligible immigration status when applying, HUD already has information on the immigration status of households receiving federal housing benefits, according to HPD, NYCHA, and advocates.

Both HPD and NYCHA must report citizenship status information to HUD, per HUD voucher rules, spokespersons for both agencies explained. HPD added that the actual impact of the MOU will depend on how that information is used by HUD and DHS.

The memorandum details that HUD is devoting just one full-time staffer to this data-sharing effort, to “help stem the tide of illegal immigration in the United States and incentivize illegal aliens to voluntarily depart the country, we enter into this MOU,” it reads.

An HPD spokesperson said HUD hasn’t contacted local agencies about the measure, and since the MOU is very new, its goal right now is to gather information, avoid causing harm or panic, coordinate with partner public housing agencies, and then communicate with clients (though the agency did not provide details on those communication efforts). 

As this is the first time this memorandum of understanding has been in effect, there is a great deal of uncertainty. Advocates recommend that households consult with immigration attorneys for individualized assessments.

“Our advice for people who are concerned and are living in HUD subsidized housing,” Luft said, “is for them to talk to their immigration attorneys and assess what their individual removal risk is and what they should do.”

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