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MINNEAPOLIS: via MPR News, VERBATIM: “When the Minneapolis City Council meets Thursday, members will vote on the mayor’s choice to lead a newly created department, which will oversee the city’s public safety functions. The person chosen by the mayor to be the city’s first community safety commissioner is Cedric Alexander, 67. As commissioner, he would oversee the city’s police, fire, 911, emergency response and violence prevention efforts. Alexander has 40 years of law enforcement and public service experience, including serving on former President Barack Obama’s Task Force on 21st Century Policing and as head of public safety in DeKalb County, Georgia. At a hearing Tuesday, Alexander admitted that he had very few connections to the city of Minneapolis, but said the world was still watching what could happen in the city where George Floyd was murdered by a police officer. ALEXANDER: ‘The only way we effectuate change is we have to be willing to do something different, have to be willing to take some risks,’ Alexander said. ‘Here's what I will not do, I will not come here and be part of the status quo.’” READ: https://fluence-media.co/3boewR7
ROCHESTER: via Rochester Post-Bulletin, VERBATIM: “With just a week before the primary election, supporters for competing school board candidates gathered at the Edison Building to reinforce their messages. The supporters belonged to one of two camps: those supporting the incumbents, and those supporting the bloc of four conservative candidates. Although school board members are elected as nonpartisan individuals, the two groups essentially have positioned themselves in opposition to one another, and differ in opinions on most issues. One of the supporters for the conservative bloc, Jan Throndson, pulled a digital signboard on a trailer behind his vehicle and parked along the street. The sign rotated through a couple different messages, such as ‘Vote for your children, August 9 primary.’ ‘We need change in our school board,’ Throndson said. ‘We need to take our school system back and start teaching reading, writing and arithmetic and get out of the wokeness.’ Throndson said another thing important to him is to have more parental voice and involvement in the school system. … Others walked up and down the sidewalks, carrying signs that said ‘Vote Incumbents’ or held signs that bore the candidates’ individual names. ‘This is the last board meeting before the primary election, and so we wanted to show that there really are people who very seriously support the incumbents,’ Marilyn Theismann said. ‘It’s a challenging time in education. We value their experience and knowledge and we think they should continue on the board… they are looking out for the good of the entire district always.’ Another supporter, Betty Danielson, reiterated the incumbents' experience, saying they have the right information and have worked well with the superintendent.” READ: https://fluence-media.co/3oXPTNW
TWOHARBORS: via MPR News, VERBATIM: “A fleet of tall-masted ships is set to sail in from Lake Superior to the small town of Two Harbors on Thursday — a change of venue for a festival that typically draws tens of thousands of attendees. Since 2008, the Festival of Sail has been held roughly every three years in Duluth. This year, anticipated seawall construction in the Duluth harbor prompted executive director Craig Samborski to move the event a bit farther up the North Shore. Samborski said the new venue provides more dock space for the ten ships scheduled to take part this year. An added bonus: giant cargo ships picking up loads of taconite pellets will pass very close to the festival that starts Thursday. ‘If you're a boat lover, there's just going to be an incredible amount of eye candy to take in this weekend with all of the ships,’ Samborski said. ‘Not just our tall ships, but the ore boats coming and going.’ This year’s festival includes some ships that have visited Duluth in recent years, including the Pride of Baltimore II and the U.S. Brig Niagara, a replica of a two-masted warship that was used in the fight against the British in the War of 1812. The present ship incorporates some timbers from the original ship.” READ: https://fluence-media.co/3oQVR38
PRAIRIE: via MPR News, VERBATIM: “In a small clearing known as the winter camp, just yards from the Mississippi River, a structure encompassed by tall grass prairie and oak savanna, offers a glimpse of the past and maybe the future. In June, Prairie Island Indian Community members built the first permanent traditional Dakota bark lodge in Minnesota in nearly 150 years. The last record of a traditional bark lodge built here dates back to the Lower Sioux Agency in the spring of 1862, right before the U.S.-Dakota War. After that the vast majority of Dakota people were on the move. At one time, in the area that is now downtown St. Paul, there was a large Mdewakanton Dakota community named Kaposia. It comprised some 400 bark lodges according to some accounts. In his writings, explorer Jonathan Carver described the many Dakota bark lodges as cities, instead of villages. Each lodge typically housed between 12-25 people. While using the same framework Prairie Island’s bark lodge is on a slightly smaller scale. ‘We basically built this lodge from pictures, we did not have an actual blueprint, with numbers and measurements and everything,’ Samuel Wells said. Wells is a Mdewakanton Dakota member from Prairie Island who participated in the build.” READ: https://fluence-media.co/3JwPjAy
DULUTH: via Duluth News Tribune, VERBATIM: “Local tourism tax collection figures released this week indicate visitors are back in force and are spending even more than they did before the COVID-19 pandemic struck. But while the numbers paint an encouraging picture, they should not be misinterpreted as evidence that Duluth’s tourism industry has fully recovered. Far from it. ‘These numbers are fantastic to see,’ said Brian Daugherty, president of Grandma’s Restaurant Co. ‘The demand for Duluth is strong. That is a great gift and blessing, and not all markets are nearly as strong as we are.’ ‘So these numbers are good, real good, and I don’t want to sound ungrateful. But there are a few asterisks,’ he said. The first asterisk Daugherty pointed to was the scarcity of workers and the higher wages businesses have had to offer just to maintain staffing. He said overall labor costs have risen by more than 20% since the pandemic. Second, food costs have also jumped by more than 10%. And a third asterisk involves the rising price of other input costs, such as water, gas, electricity and sanitation services, said Daugherty, referring to restaurants as ‘utility machines.’” READ: https://fluence-media.co/3Jr1ZsA
MEDIA: via St. Cloud Times, VERBATIM: “A current St. Cloud Times newsroom manager, Anna Haecherl, will step into the role of news director effective Thursday. Haecherl started as a business reporter for the Times in 2018 and has spent the past three years on the Times' management.
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