Brooklyn Park City Council members’ censure is extended

The Star Tribune’s Sarah Ritter reports that the Brooklyn Park City Council has done just that extended Councilman Boyd Morson’s disapproval “In response to claims he continues to disrespect staff and exhibit inappropriate behavior online.”

(Subscriber only) Duluth News Tribune took a look inside the 2021 investigator’s report on Duluth East coach Mike Randolph abruptly resigning amid misconduct investigations.

MPR’s Elizabeth Shockman writes about the There are many data requests sent to Minnesota schools, which are both costly and time-consuming produce.

“Leaders in other districts say they have been similarly inundated with what sometimes appear to be politically motivated data requests that are extremely expensive for the district, difficult to decipher and sometimes coming from out of state.

It irritates them so much that they may want changes to the state’s Government Data Practices Act in the upcoming legislative session.”

Via Racket: The Minnesota Star Tribune will rreceive $500,000 for a two-year AI fellow in partnership with OpenAI and Microsoft.

KSTP reports that the Minneapolis Police Department is is investigating after a school bus was found with children inside on Monday evening. A neighbor reported seeing the children crying and being “scared.” No children were injured.

A new suburb just popped up: Bring Me the News reports on St. Louis Park and Golden Valley’s marketing rebrand to ‘Westopolis’.

“It is the work of destination marketing organization Discover St. Louis Park, which took responsibility for marketing Golden Valley and has now created a new name that reflects the area’s “energy and cosmopolitan spirit” and while emphasizing proximity to Minneapolis and accessibility to the metro region.”

MPR interviewed a moderate Democratic farmer from southwestern Minnesota and a conservative student at St. Olaf College who exchanged news sources to see what they could learn from each other and whether they could find common ground.

Via Star Tribune: “State environmental regulators are filing a lawsuit against the Lake County Planning Commission in an attempt to stop a developer from building 49 new cabins in a century-old fishing resort on an access lake to the Boundary Waters Canoe Wilderness Area.”

Associated Press via KARE: “Family members of a candidate for city council in Richmond, Virginia, do casting doubt on his claim that he is a cousin of George Floydthe Black man whose death in police custody in 2020 reignited the national Black Lives Matter movement.”

KARE’s Dana Thiede reports on the retrial of Cody Fohrenkahm whose murder conviction in the Deshaun Hill case was overturned by the Minnesota Court of Appeals.

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