What’s happening in Minnesota Today
Good morning, Minnesota. Happy Wednesday!
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🧊 Extreme cold warnings continue through portions of western and central Minnesota Wednesday morning. Wind chill values are in the 25 to 40 below zero range mostly this morning.
🌡️ Highs in the teens become more widespread Thursday along with a return to brighter skies. We are still on track for a significant warm up this weekend with highs returning to the 30s and 40s and persisting into next week.
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👮 DOJ asks for pause in Minneapolis police federal consent decree. The DOJ asked to stay the proceeding until March 20 after Trump’s DOJ leadership issued a memo directing attorneys to provide notice of any court-enforceable agreements to reform police agencies that had been finalized within the last 90 days.
🏛️ Prosecutor says Feeding Our Future defendant approached witness in effort to ‘corrupt’ process. The lead prosecutor in the second Feeding Our Future trial said that a defendant who’s slated for trial later this year approached a witness in the courthouse on Tuesday and asked to speak with him in a bathroom.
🌿 Retail recreational marijuana, take two. Lawsuits last fall led to the cancellation of a planned lottery geared toward a smaller set of business applicants. Starting now, both social equity and general applicants can throw their hats in the ring for back-to-back lotteries sometime around May or June.
🛫 ‘We were all scared:’ Minnesotan on Delta plane recalls Toronto crash. Pete Carlson of Northfield remembers blowing snow and strong winds on his Monday flight from Minneapolis to Toronto. It felt like a normal flight — until it wasn’t.
✊🏽 Indigenous activist Leonard Peltier welcomed home after release from prison. Native American activist Leonard Peltier traveled to Belcourt, N.D., to the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Reservation on Tuesday after being released from a Florida prison.
❌ Lutheran Social Service of Minnesota eliminates staff positions. In a statement, Senior Vice President of Services Alexis Oberdorfer said, "With no federal funding for refugee resettlement services, we are in the unfortunate position of having to reduce our staffing for this work."
💰 From ICT: Tribal funding caught in crossfire from Trump administration. Since the Trump funding freeze was announced in January, tribes have had difficulty accessing digital portals to receive reimbursement, according to Native leaders who were not authorized to speak on behalf of individual tribes.
🕯️ Burnsville marks one year since first responders‘ deaths with wreath tribute, special ceremony. During a ceremony at City Hall, Burnsville city leaders praised their fallen colleagues as heroes while also describing the emotional toll the events of last year have taken on them all.
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| — Sam Stroozas and Anna Haecherl, MPR News |
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