Future plans for St. Paul district include fewer elementary schools
Plus: the pandemic’s effects on adolescent pregnancy, STIs; organizing small restaurant staffs; Minnesota county fairs see high attendance; and more.
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Coronavirus in Minnesota: state sees uptick in new cases, hospitalizations
The Minnesota Department of Health reports the state added 1,535 new COVID-19 cases in the seven days between July 14 and July 20, for an average of 219 new cases per day.
Which Minnesota restaurants got grants from the federal Restaurant Revitalization Fund?
The federal fund, created by the American Rescue Plan, sought to offset pandemic-related financial losses. The program ran out of funding in 12 days.
Southwest LRT’s rocky mess
Project delays and cost overruns could be measured in years and hundreds of millions of dollars.
Reviving Lake Street: Nonprofit community groups spearheading recovery
While the Lake Street Council continues to assist with recovery efforts throughout the Lake Street corridor, other nonprofit groups are focusing their work on key Lake Street intersections.
Minnesota Court of Appeals orders MPCA to revisit Polymet permit
Plus: Walz calls again for Rep. John Thompson to resign over abuse allegations; charges allege St. Paul man’s body thrown into Lake Superior after being shot, dismembered; Twin Cities faces growing pigeon problem; and more.
Minneapolis may consider watering restrictions as drought conditions continue
Plus: Date set for vaccinated Americans to be able to enter Canada; residents and business owners ponder future of Uptown; starry stonewort confirmed in Leech Lake.
There’s little evidence that film and TV tax credits work. Why Minnesota lawmakers funded a new one anyway.
The state’s new tax credit for TV and film productions will cost taxpayers $5 million a year over the next four years.
Support group helps moms with terminated parental rights cope with grief and loss
The group offers support to women who often feel that they have to bear their grief alone.
Rep. John Thompson ‘challenges the authenticity’ of police reports alleging domestic abuse
Plus: Rangers clear parts of BWCA closed to visitors due to wildfire threat; longtime Minnesota state senator reveals ALS diagnosis; federal jury in Wisconsin delivers $125 million verdict against Walmart; and more.
Walz, DFL leaders call on Rep. John Thompson to resign following abuse allegations
Plus: U of M neighborhood sees highest number of criminal incidents in at least a decade; officials issue expanded closure order for BWCA amid growing concerns about Canadian wildfires; rural Minnesota seeing farmland prices surge; and more.
State officials step up response to Minnesota’s deepening drought
Plus: 3-year-old Minneapolis boy in critical condition after being shot; cluster of COVID-19 infections traced to Anoka County funeral; family of murdered corrections officer sues company operating prison workshop; and more.
Canadian border to open to vaccinated Americans in August
Plus: portions of Boundary Waters closed due to fire threat; man charged with setting dumpster fire in Uptown; and more.
Pelican Rapids, with an assist from a federal program, promotes local food sustainability
Pelican Rapids was one of 16 small cities across the country chosen in 2020 for a program called Local Foods, Local Places that promotes local food systems.
Minnesota’s pandemic-driven bike boom is showing no signs of slowing down
A combination of high consumer demand and a crunch on suppliers has made bikes and their parts difficult to come by.
D.C. Memo: You look happy and healthy (from vaccine)
Emmer’s influence on the 2022 midterm elections, Omar’s not invited to the Middle East and the Canadian border is… still closed.
Drought intensifies in much of Minnesota
Plus: MnPass to become part of E-ZPass electronic toll system; major freeway project through St. Paul starts this weekend; Khalid El-Amin hired to coach St. Thomas Academy’s basketball program; and more.
Minnesota lost 600 jobs in June
Plus: Minnesota blocks public funding of “conversion therapy”; Walz calls for grazing on conservation lands amid drought; Minneapolis barber shop doubles as vaccination clinic; and more.
What is going on with Minneapolis’ bike-share program?
Nice Ride first came to town in 2010 and has weathered financial problems, ridership issues and a host of other challenges in the years since.
The American Rescue Plan included loan forgiveness for Minnesota farmers of color. Then a group of white farmers sued.
The plaintiffs claim the program is racist, but supporters call it a civil rights issue in a country where farmers of color have been systematically discriminated against.
