At MPR, Feven Gerezgiher writes, “American Indian students in Minnesota may soon give you the option to attend a public college or university without spending a dime. With the passage of their higher education omnibus bills, the Minnesota House and Senate recently approved $24 million to ascertain the American Indian Scholars Program, providing for a full tuition and fee waiver for American Indian students to pursue an undergraduate education at Minnesota’s public two- and four-year colleges and universities. Though a conference committee now must reconcile the several House and Senate bills, the American Indian Scholars Program is prone to make it through the changes.”
At KARE-TV Heidi Wigdahl says, “Despite the fact that over 266 million kilos of e-waste can be found for recycling within the state annually, in line with the pilot study, only 23.7% of it gets captured. … The study used peer-reviewed research, reports and native data on e-waste to take a look at 62 different elements. At a 100% e-waste recycling rate in Minnesota, the highest elements by weight were iron (40.6%), copper (32.2%), tin (9.6%) and aluminum (8.5%). The highest e-waste by value included palladium (53.5%), platinum (36.5%), copper (3.8%) and tin (3.6%). The study found that the projected job creation — if 100% of e-waste in Minnesota were to be captured — is 1,738 direct jobs and a complete of three,345 recent jobs.”
Nicole Norfleet of the Strib reports, “David’s Bridal filed for bankruptcy in April and can likely close the handful of its locations in Minnesota. Bed Bath & Beyond and its sister store buybuy Baby began their closing sales last week. Other large stores have emptied, including the Walmart in Brooklyn Center that shuttered last month and the Best Buy in Shakopee that closed in March. While store closings are often checked out as a negative development, many local real estate brokers and property managers said that with few store vacancies available on the market, the closures will provide relief in a low-inventory market, allowing for brand spanking new tenants and inventive concepts.”
For the Court House News Service Andy Monserud reports, “The Minnesota Supreme Court ruled Wednesday against a lady who argued that her purse, carried outside of her automotive during a traffic stop, was a part of her person and subsequently not subject to warrantless searches. Attorneys for Amber Barrow argued before the court in January for reversal of her 2018 fifth-degree possession conviction, saying that a police officer mustn’t have been allowed to go looking her purse after she removed it from the vehicle he planned to go looking. The officer, who had initiated the automotive search after saying that he smelled marijuana, found 4 Clonazepam pills in Barrow’s purse after he told Barrow to depart the purse and returned it to the automotive. Attorney Abigail Rankin, representing Barrow, held during those arguments that the purse was a closely-held item and a part of Barrow’s person, not a container contained in the automotive. She compared it to a wallet that the automotive’s male driver had also faraway from the automotive, which the officer didn’t search.”
Within the Rochester Post-Bulletin Molly Castle Work says, “LifeSource, which has a monopoly in Minnesota’s organ transplant system, received a failing grade Friday. Headquartered in Minneapolis, LifeSource is an organ procurement organization, the middleman of the transplant system, coordinating between hospitals and transplant centers where ailing patients receive organs. There are 56 organ procurement organizations within the nation, contracted by the federal government to facilitate transplants of their service area. LifeSource has a federally sanctioned monopoly over transplants in Minnesota, North Dakota and South Dakota serving 7.5 million people.”
For KSTP-TV Kyle Brown reports, “A Minnesota-centric festival is coming to downtown Minneapolis this summer after a seven-year absence. Minneapolis city leaders are poised to announce Taste of Minnesota’s return on Thursday. The reincarnation of the favored festival will feature music and native food vendors.”
An AP story by Harm Venhuizen says, “Wisconsin’s conservative-controlled Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that a hospital couldn’t be forced to offer a deworming drug to a patient with COVID-19, saying a county judge didn’t cite a legal basis for ordering the ability to manage ivermectin.”