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A chilly Wednesday! Temperatures are running about 15 degrees below normal today, back in the lower 20s south and teens north. Read more on the Updraft.
As COVID cases plummet, students take off their masks

As COVID cases plummet around the state, schools are relaxing their masking rules.

Rochester Public Schools is the latest district to relax its masking requirements, making them mandatory only under specific circumstances. For one family, choosing to mask now is a matter of individual choice.

Molly Thorson's 10 and 13-year-old daughters, Ruby and Norah say they are going to continue to mask most of the time at school. “I'm also going to mask because I feel like the rates are going to go up without it. But there are certain subjects that I won't wear a mask," says Norah.

But their older brother, Max, a 15-year-old in high school, said he's over masks "because I already had COVID and I don't think the whole thing is a big risk in general,” he said.
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Minneapolis city workers can use their sick time to care for their kids during the teacher strike. Any employee who's scheduled to work in the city but can't because of a closure of Minneapolis Public Schools, is eligible to use accrued sick and safe time. Employers with questions should contact the city's Civil Rights Department.

The Minneapolis police and fire departments neglected their own emergency plans and never set up an adequate command structure  while responding to the 2020 riots following George Floyd's murder. The long-awaited review of how Minneapolis public safety officials responded to the events in the summer of 2020 says this led to poor communication with officers and firefighters on the streets and inconsistent decision making. 

Gas price, already at a record level, could go up even higher.  President Biden announced that Tuesday that the U.S. will ban all Russian oil imports while acknowledging that the ban could further drive up crude and gasoline prices in the U.S. The average cost of a gallon of regular fuel is now $4.173, according to AAA, after jumping 55 cents in the last week alone.
– Jiwon Choi, MPR News
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