St. Paul settles with property owners who challenged city’s assessments for street maintenance

Star Tribune reporter Katie Galliotto wrote, “St. Paul is paying $640,000 to settle with the property owners who successfully challenged the city’s street maintenance program in court. St. Paul City Council on Wednesday approved seven settlement agreements allowing for refunds, which cover evaluations of work done between 2018 and 2020. A May Ramsey County court ruling ordered the city to stop evaluating individual property owners for routine maintenance — such as lighting, sweeping, and painting — of adjacent streets to their lands.”

April Baumgarten writes in the Bemidji Pioneer book, “Wynonna Luduc has resigned As the leader of an Native American environmental group she founded 30 years ago, her resignation came just days after a jury sided with a former employee in a sexual harassment case. Honoring the Earth Co-Executive Director, Crystal Two Balls This was announced in a statement on the organization’s website Wednesday, April 5th. “

The militants Liz Sawyer and Kim Hyatt writeMinnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison said publicly Wednesday that He disagrees with the Hennepin County District Attorney’s decision to Offer deal appeal to events Instead of seeking a conviction in adult court of two minors suspected of murdering a 23-year-old woman during a Brooklyn Park home invasion last fall.”

a Politico story By Zach Montillaro and Madison Fernandez It says, “Liberal Milwaukee County Judge Janet Protasevich crushed her opponent on Tuesday in Election to the Wisconsin Supreme Court. The outcome of the contest is likely to determine the fate of abortion rights and other key issues on the top presidential battlefield. … Kelly conceded his loss on Tuesday night, but attacked the now judge-elect in his concession speech. “I wish in such circumstances to be able to concede to a worthy opponent, but I have no worthy opponent,” he said, calling Protasevich a “campaign ‘under contempt’ that unleashed ‘corrupt calumnies’. He said it would damage the integrity of the court.”

MPR Story By Paul Hutner saysOur newest storm system is so powerful it acts like a giant vacuum cleaner. The high winds from this system have It sucked huge amounts of dust out of the sand dunes of New Mexico and northern Mexico and lifted it by air before depositing it in Minnesota.”

Also in MPR, This is from Tim NelsonOpening the door to successful farming in Minnesota to immigrants, Native Americans, and Minnesotans of Color is very difficult, said a handful of farmers at a roundtable on the federal farm bill Wednesday. They want that door to be opened easier. “Securities and the ability to repay a loan is one of the challenges.”said Vitalis Teta, who grows 8 acres of vegetables near Montrose, Minnesota.

for KNSI Radio in St. Louis, Missouri. clouds Jennifer Lorenz saysThe Minnesota State Patrol has opened a new accountability dashboard website to the public. The information on the site is public, but has not been proactively published on the web. “