Good morning, Minnesota. Happy Friday!

Here's the latest news from across the state to start your day. ☕

WEATHER

☀️ Friday’s high temperatures will warm into the upper teens and lower 20s across the state. Temperatures will climb into the 30s on Saturday and then 40s for Sunday.

🌧️ We’ll have a parade of disturbances next week, bringing chances at some rain and snow showers. Most rain and snowfall will be relatively light.

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‘It’s completely draining’: Rising food prices causing continued stress in Minnesota, nationwide

Food prices continue to rise in Minnesota and nationwide — though at a slower rate than dramatic spikes during the pandemic. The high price of eggs is top of mind right now for many grocery shoppers.

Love is bland? Minnesotans react to ‘Love is Blind’ Minneapolis season so far

A week two update on the Netflix reality show with fan reactions, data on Black people and diversity in Minnesota and a look at what’s next. Mild spoilers ahead.

NEWS ROUNDUP

❌ Frey vetoes council move toward a pedestrian plaza at George Floyd Square. Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey has vetoed the City Council’s plan to explore building a pedestrian-only mall at George Floyd Square, the intersection where an officer killed Floyd in 2020.

🏛️ Feeding Our Future jury bribe courier charged with DWI after crash. A woman who's awaiting sentencing for trying to bribe a juror in the first Feeding Our Future trial that followed a sprawling federal investigation into food aid fraud during the COVID-19 pandemic is facing a new charge of drunken driving.

🏠 Walz family starts to make a move — back to Summit Avenue residence. The Department of Administration said that residence furnishings were beginning to be moved, but a spokesman did not know when the Walz family would officially depart Eastcliff, which is usually occupied by university presidents.

🏳️‍⚧️ Ellison: Trump order on transgender athletes violates Minnesota law. Minnesota human rights law lets transgender athletes compete in sports consistent with their gender identity and it supersedes President Donald Trump’s recent executive order banning transgender athletes from women’s sports.

⚖️ Bill that would make more attorney general data public fails in Minnesota House vote. The bill would have declared more data from state attorney general investigations as public. It could be withheld only if it is regarding individual people, but not if it applied to organizations, businesses or nonprofits.

🚒 St. Paul fire officials warn of ‘death traps’ after second fatal garage fire this month. St. Paul fire officials say the community needs to take action to prevent further tragedies, after the second fatal fire this month involving people living in garages.

MUST LISTEN

🎧 Slowing climate change by ‘putting carbon back where it came from.’ A technology that can slow or stop climate change already exists — and has a history of bipartisan support in Washington. But it has a few hoops to jump through before it can make a bigger impact.

🎧 Minnesota Civics Summit supports social studies teachers amid political polarization. Minnesota social studies teachers will gather in St. Cloud for the Minnesota Civics Summit on Saturday. Put on by the League of Women’s Voters of Minnesota, it brings together teachers and civics organizations to support teachers in engaging students during a polarizing time in politics.

🎧 The power of poetry: Junauda Petrus, the new Poet Laureate of Minneapolis. MPR News host Angela Davis talks about the power of poetry with Junauda Petrus, the newly appointed Poet Laureate for the city of Minneapolis. She says poetry is “soul medicine” that can unite us in our shared humanity.

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