MPR News PM Update

Aug. 17, 2023

Cooler Thursday! It’ll still be windy but from a cooler, northwest direction. Temps on the upper 70s. Smoke from Canadian wildfires will affect air quality in portions of Minnesota. Air quality alert continues until 11 p.m. Friday. Get the latest on Updraft.
Minnesota State Fair will have more cops, cameras and horses
The addition of more cameras, metal detectors, coordination with other agencies are part of a wide-ranging response to public safety challenges on and off the fairgrounds in recent years.
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Minneapolis approves measure to boost pay for Uber, Lyft drivers
The ordinance passed 7-5 despite rideshare companies’ threats they’ll stop operating in the city if the provision goes forward.  
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✈️ Aer Lingus set to resume nonstop service between Twin Cities, Dublin
Aer Lingus is planning to resume nonstop flights between the Twin Cities and Dublin in April. The Irish airline’s service to Minneapolis St. Paul International Airport had been suspended at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.
📦 Austin-based Hormel Foods to send Spam, other relief to Maui
The company announced Thursday that three truckloads of the canned pork product are on the way with two more trucks following, totaling more than 264,000 cans of Spam.
📉 Twin Cities is the first in the nation to get inflation below 2 percent annual rate
Listen: In May, the annual inflation rate in the Twin Cities dropped below the Federal Reserve’s two percent target — making it the first major metropolitan area to do so. What’s behind the region’s relative success?
- Nicole Johnson, MPR News
 
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