Roger Sollenberger and Mini Racker at the Daily Beast examined GOP-endorsed senate candidate Royce White’s 2022 Federal Election Commission filings and found expenses included a total of more than $100,000 in mysterious wire transfers and checks reported as paid to the campaign, tabs at hotels in seven states, an all-nude strip club in Miami, and more.
Mike Hughlett at the Star Tribune is reporting Xcel Energy’s negligence contributed to a 2011 catastrophic equipment failure at the company’s Sherco 3 power plant in Becker, meriting a refund of certain costs to customers, a state administrative law judge recently concluded.
Naasir Akailvi at KARE 11 reports the search for two missing canoeists in the BWCA will continue with added resources after Gov. Tim Walz authorized the Minnesota National Guard to assist with both personnel and machinery.
Eric Henderson at WCCO News reports a number of family members, largely from Minnesota, who shared a meal of bear meat that one of the family members had harvested were subsequently infected with brain worms, according to a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Ben Hovland at MPR News travels to Volders, Austria, and returns with words and photographs about his great-uncle, Minneapolis native and 2nd Lt. Richard Rossman, whose plane and crew of 11 airmen were returning to base after striking targets in Germany and Austria when they were shot down on a freezing December night in 1943.
From MinnPost managing editor Harry Colbert, Jr.: On the eve of the fourth anniversary of the killing of George Floyd, leaders and activists including, left to right, Leslie Redmond, Nekima Levy Armstrong, former Minneapolis Police Chief Medaria Arradondo, Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison, former Ecolab CEO Douglas Baker and Toshira Garraway Allen, convened to discuss the progress and need for continued progress in the fight for racial justice.
