29 February 2024
Kyle Stokes at Axios Twin Cities reports: “St. Paul’s 1% sales tax increase takes effect on April 1, and city leaders have unveiled which projects they’ll pay for first — including a rebuild of Grand Avenue, plus dozens more improvements to parks.”
From the Pioneer Press: “Fourteen protesters were cited for trespassing Wednesday evening after they hopped a fence outside the temporary residence of Gov. Tim Walz in St. Paul, officials say.
The Minnesota State Patrol said about 100 people had gathered outside the Eastcliff mansion on Mississippi River Boulevard, where a pro-Palestinian advocacy organization was holding a protest demanding that state pension funds be divested from companies linked to Israel.”
From the Minnesota Spokesman-Recorder: Publisher Tracey Williams-Dillard sat down with Minneapolis Ward 4 Councilwoman LaTrisha Vetaw to talk about everything from homeless and addiction to mass transit to the decline of civil discourse in politics.
From Caroline Cummings at WCCO: “When some communities in Minnesota turn on the tap, their drinking supply source has high levels of PFAS. That’s especially true in the east metro, home of 3M, which six years ago settled with the state for $850 million for disposing the chemicals and contaminating drinking water and our environment — one of the largest settlements of its kind in the country.” But that’s not enough for the clean-up.
From Kayla Huynh of the Cap Times: “The Madison Metropolitan School District’s newly hired superintendent will be paid nearly $300,000 a year plus moving expenses, travel allowances and 87 sick days including unused time off from a decade ago.”
Matthew Holding Eagle III of MPR has a story on the life of urban deer: In 2022, the Environment and Natural Resource Trust Fund awarded Bemidji State University nearly $400,000 for the study of urban deer life.
Darian Leddy at KTTC has a story on Leap Year birthdays: “According to the History Channel, there are only about 5 million people in the world who were born on February 29. That’s 0.06 percent of the population.
“However, there are actually quite a few people in our area celebrating their official birthdays Thursday.”
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