2 October 2024
Dan Niepow at Twin Cities Business is reporting the Dayton’s Project, conceived as an office and retail showplace for downtown Minneapolis, has entered a new chapter of financial woes. A New Brighton turnaround management firm has taken receivership of the downtown Minneapolis property amid claims the building’s current owner failed to make mortgage payments for months.
Alex Derosier at the Pioneer Press looks into the incident Gov. Tim Walz alluded to in Tuesday’s vice presidential debate in which his son, Gus, had been close to a shooting in St. Paul in 2023.
Dana Thiede at KARE 11 reports Mason Hermann of Woodbury has filed a lawsuit against the city of Minneapolis and its police department, alleging an MPD officer shot him in the head with a non-lethal projectile during a peaceful protest following George Floyd’s murder.
Janet Moore and Tim Harlow report city councils in Robbinsdale and Crystal on Tuesday gave their support for the Blue Line extension plan, joining Brooklyn Park, which gave its consent last week.
Izzy Canizares at Bring Me the News reports Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara is “disgusted” at a conservative website that criticized the department for hiring the first Somali-American woman and first non-citizen to become police officers. The story was shared by X owner Elon Musk, who tweeted “near the fall of the Roman Empire, the Roman Army also increasingly relied on non-citizens.”
Eric Rasmussen at KSTP has a disturbing report based on interviews with former employees of SeaQuest about several marine animals that did not survive when the company attempted to relocate them from Colorado to Minnesota by shipping the animals in the back of a U-Haul truck in February. “They showed up frozen in Minnesota. They were in blocks of ice,” said one former employee of SeaQuest Roseville.
Lou Raguse at KARE 11 reports a St. Paul police officer was caught off guard Sunday night. He was giving sobriety tests to a woman he had pulled over, when a random stranger jumped into her car and stole it.
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