MinnPost staff

Plus: My Pillow guy enjoys growing platform, looking out for homeless ahead of winter, political shift in the Iron Range and celebrating powerful female Minnesotans.

Plus: USA Curling’s DEI Task Force calls for the removal of the CEO; the Lake Street post office has reopened; Glencoe residents complain about a noisy cryptocurrency mining facility; Rock Bottom Brewery closes; and more.

Plus: A massive seizure of fentanyl pills in Bloomington; environmental protection for a Renville County stream; State Patrol to set goal for recruiting female troopers; and more.

Plus: St. Paul homeowners face 15% property tax hikes; a fire destroys one house and damages two others in Woodbury; Minneapolis police roll out Operation Endeavor; and more.

Plus: The DOJ is investigating the MPD’s handling of a 2016 death ruled a suicide; the Walker and MPR retire Rock the Garden; police officer-turned-politician Tony Bennett dies; Lizzo plays James Madison’s crystal flute; and more.

Plus: Three stories on housing affordability; officials plan to kill geese to help wild rice; Able brewery in northeast Minneapolis to close; and more.

Plus: Beltrami County hands jail death criminal case to private firm to investigate; Rosemount City Council member resigns over altercation at her home with ‘political extremist’; Crookston enacts emergency ordinance in response to sale of THC products; and more.

Plus: ‘Drag Story Hour’ draws protesters and counter-protesters in St. Paul; Stella’s Fish Café in Uptown Minneapolis gets an emergency pest management visit; fallen Minnesota firefighters are honored; and more.

Plus: Gunfire exchanged between Abbott Northwestern Hospital security and an “unwanted person on the property”; MSP prepares for a post-pandemic future; Schatzlein Saddle Shop closing after 115 years on Lake Street; and more.

Plus: Kim Crockett compares the 2020 election to 9/11; Keith Ellison’s office shuts down Welch Charities; MSP pupper named TSA’s cutest canine; and more.

Plus: U of M to contract with Minneapolis police for events again; Derek Chauvin moved to the Federal Correctional Institution in Tucson; a profile of the Minnesota State Fair’s new lead butter carver; and more.

Plus: Neel Kashkari calls for tightening monetary policy; Scott Jensen doubles down on his COVID-19 restrictions/Hitler analogy; Indigenous communities impacted most by wildfire pollution; and more.

Plus: Attorney General Keith Ellison issues a consumer alert regarding crisis pregnancy centers; the return of the rare Ojibwe horse; former Gov. Jesse Ventura on Scott Jensen’s mask mandate Kristallnacht comment; and more.

Plus: St. Paul Mayor Melvin Carter unveils 2023 budget proposal; Twin Cities attorney claims new Minneapolis Public Schools policy violates the Constitution; one on one with Twins’ Hall of Famer Dan Gladden; and more.