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At least St. Paul is trying to build a better way to plow city streets
5+ hour, 39+ min ago (1005+ words) Your donation today will help MinnPost continue to report on the news you need. Few things in municipal life are more predictable than people complaining about snow plowing. Along with potholes, traffic, taxes and parking, it's a staple food of…...
Minnesota Legislature considers bills to honor Melissa Hortman
2+ day, 11+ hour ago (250+ words) Your donation today will help MinnPost continue to report on the news you need. Former DFL House Speaker Melissa Hortman's name could be associated with solar gardens, a state highway and a state building under legislation state lawmakers are considering…...
A Superfund site in MN is spreading, disrupting a tribe's way of life
3+ day, 3+ hour ago (1823+ words) Your donation today will help MinnPost continue to report on the news you need. CASS LAKE, Minn. " As a teenager, Ryan White learned to harvest manoomin from his father and grandfather on the White Earth Reservation. The Minnesota lakes are…...
MN nonprofits race to distribute millions to tenants facing eviction
1+ week, 11+ hour ago (834+ words) Your donation today will help MinnPost continue to report on the news you need. After a surge in private donations to help cover rent for people harmed by Operation Metro Surge, Minnesota charities face a new challenge of getting that…...
This Minnesota town is the only one to sign an agreement with ICE
2+ week, 5+ hour ago (212+ words) Your donation today will help MinnPost continue to report on the news you need. Observers in Twin Cities suburbs say they are not seeing a "drawdown" of immigration enforcement activities in their cities, CBS News reports. "We are not seeing…...
FBI, St. Paul police probing ICE arrest that resulted in skull fractures
2+ week, 1+ day ago (684+ words) Your donation today will help MinnPost continue to report on the news you need. Investigators from the St. Paul Police Department and FBI last week canvassed the shopping center parking lot where Alberto Casta'eda Mondrag'n says Immigration and Customs Enforcement…...
Latino leaders call for policy, funding to recover from ICE surge
2+ week, 1+ day ago (110+ words) Your donation today will help MinnPost continue to report on the news you need. In other session news, a bill backed by more than two dozen GOP lawmakers would make protesting in front of someone's place of residence a gross…...
Aid on the way for small businesses
2+ week, 6+ day ago (166+ words) What are Minnesota officials saying about the border czar Tom Homan's announcement that Operation Metro Surge will soon draw to a close? WCCO has statements from a number of our state's leaders." A number of prosecutors from the U.S. Attorney's Office…...
Renovation of the Lake Street/Midtown Blue Line station is delayed
3+ week, 2+ day ago (609+ words) Nearly every day, Kalyaisha and Larita Maddox use the Lake Street/Midtown Blue Line light rail station. Their reviews are less than glowing. The Maddoxes describe regular drug use, a consistent smell of urine and rarely operating escalators. "Every day…...
Minnesotans’ moonshot to cover rent for their immigrant neighbors
3+ week, 3+ day ago (995+ words) On a recent weekday morning as Ashley Fairbanks sat in a salon chair getting her hair done, she put out a call to her 49,000 followers on BlueSky: Twelve families needed their rent paid, urgently. There was no time for fundraisers…...