The Star Tribune’s Deena Winter and Jeff Day report: “The city of Minneapolis withdrew its request that a controversial pastor’s nonprofit get a nearly $650,000 violence prevention contract on the same day two violence interrupters who have worked for the pastor were charged with multiple felonies in a shootout after a community barbecue last week.”
KARE 11’s David Griswold reports: “A 3-year-old was transported to a hospital after being struck by a vehicle Monday in Eagan.”
Mohamed Ibrahim and Katelyn Vue at Sahan Journal report: “Amid a climate of anti-immigration rhetoric and policies from the White House, GOP lawmakers in the Minnesota Legislature are proposing legislation that would bar undocumented residents from accessing state-funded programs like MinnesotaCare.”
Alex Derosier at the Pioneer Press reports: “A Minnesota Republican Party push to remove Democratic-Farmer-Labor representatives who boycotted the beginning of this year’s legislative session has failed.”
Nick Halter at Axios reports: “As downtown St. Paul’s real estate scene grows bleaker by the week, Detroit’s 15-year renaissance offers one example for how to end such a doom loop.”
Allison Kite at the Star Tribune reports: “A test of the newly established tie between GOP and DFL lawmakers in the Minnesota House came swiftly Monday after Rep. David Gottfried was sworn in.”
The Pioneer Press’ Steve Karnowski reports: “A federal judge dismissed the charges Monday against a Minnesota man accused of hiding a stolen pair of ruby slippers that Judy Garland wore in the 1939 musical ‘The Wizard of Oz’ after prosecutors informed the court that he died on Sunday.”
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