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FBI agents raid another Feeding Our Future defendant’s home

Plus: Minneapolis City Council member encouraged Ann Kim to recognize union; Grove kept ties with Walz administration after becoming Strib publisher; and more. FBI agents raided Mukhtar Shariff's home in Burnsville, Minnesota, following a raid on another Feeding Our Future defendant. Starting July 1, adopted people 18 years and older will be able to request a copy of their original birth records without their birth parents' permission. Minneapolis City Council member Katie Cashman reportedly encouraged chef Ann Kim to voluntarily recognize an employee union at her Uptown restaurant. The Star Tribune's publisher, Steve Grove, kept ties with Gov. Tim Walz's administration after stepping down as economic development commissioner for the newspaper's top job, according to texts obtained by the Minnesota Reformer. Metro Transit and the city of Minneapolis are developing plans to permanently move buses off Nicollet Mall, though this will take at least two years. The Prison Mirror has been run by and for the people held at the Minnesota Correctional Facility for over a century.

FBI agents raid another Feeding Our Future defendant’s home

发表 : 2个星期前 经过 MinnPost staff

Kelly Smith at the Star Tribune reports a neighbor told the newspaper that FBI agents arrived to search Mukhtar Shariff’s house in Burnsville starting around 8 a.m. Shariff is one of the five defendants convicted by a jury for their role in a scheme to defraud the government of money intended to feed hungry children.

Kyle Stokes at Axios is reporting Minneapolis City Council member Katie Cashman privately encouraged chef Ann Kim to voluntarily recognize an employee union at her Uptown restaurant, according to a voicemail obtained by the news site.

Kirsten Mitchell at WCCO News reports that starting July 1, adopted people 18 years and older will be eligible to request a copy of their original birth records, without the permission of their birth parents.

Rochelle Olson at the Star Tribune reports the newspaper’s publisher, Steve Grove, kept some ties with Gov. Tim Walz’s administration after he stepped down as the economic development commissioner for the newspaper’s top job, according to texts first obtained and reported by the Minnesota Reformer.

H. Jiahong Pan at Downtown Voices reports Metro Transit and the city of Minneapolis are developing plans to permanently move buses off of Nicollet Mall, though it won’t happen for at least two years.

Dessa shares her story in the New York Times Magazine about being stricken with laryngitis three weeks before a tour: “Words are how I connect to the world and the people in it. Without the ability to voice them, I started to sense a partition descending between me and the scenes of my life, as if they were unfolding at a remove.”

Meg Anderson at Nation Public Radio shares the story of the Prison Mirror, a newspaper made by and for the people held at the Minnesota Correctional Facility – Stillwater for over a century.

Keith Harris at Racket interviews U of M Sociologist Michelle Phelps about her new book, The Minneapolis Reckoning: Race, Violence, and the Politics of Policing in America.

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