Stories from Metropolis, Minnesota’s Twin Cities metropolitan area of over 3 million people.
Today, Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey and Interim Police Chief Amelia Huffman announced new officer health and wellness initiatives in addition to an updated discipline matrix. This update follows after a recent Minnesota Department of Human Rights report concluded that the City and its officers repeatedly engage in a pattern or practice of race discrimination in violation of the Minnesota Human Rights Act.
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On July 1, 2022, the minimum wage in Minneapolis is going up to $13.50 at small businesses and $15 at large businesses. The City stated that it’s committed to “supporting an economy that includes everyone.”
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A three-mile stretch of Lyndale Avenue South from West 22nd Street to West 42nd Street will be closed to motor vehicle traffic to open it up for people to enjoy activities on the street in a car-free environment.
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Inspectors with the Minneapolis Regulatory Services Department now have access to a fleet of electric bicycles to do their work.
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Yesterday, the Minneapolis City Council unanimously voted to approve and adopt the final round of American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) funding for the City of Minneapolis. Mayor Jacob Frey’s proposal for the remaining $43 million investment stayed 97% intact, with the City Council shifting allocations for only $1.3 million of the originally proposed investments. Today’s budget approval rounds out the total $271 million amount in federal funding awarded to the City of Minneapolis.
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Tickets for the upcoming exhibitions “Van Gogh and the Olive Groves” and “Dressed by Nature: Textiles of Japan” at the Minneapolis Institute of Art (Mia) will go on sale to the public on Monday, June 13. Both exhibitions open on Saturday, June 25.
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A woman called 911 at about 12:15 a.m. and told dispatchers in the Ramsey County Emergency Communications Center that a man had been shot inside a car near the intersection of Sherburne Avenue and North Mackubin Street. He later died at the hospital.
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Saint Paul police are investigating after a person was shot and killed in the city’s North End neighborhood Thursday night.
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Former Minneapolis police officer Thomas Lane pleaded guilty Wednesday to a state charge of aiding and abetting second-degree manslaughter in the killing of George Floyd.
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Today, Mayor Jacob Frey joined Council Vice President Linea Palmisano, Council Member Jamal Osman, Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board (MPRB) Superintendent Al Bangoura and President Meg Forney, as well as community partners like Green Minneapolis to highlight $1 million in American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) funding dedicated to programming to expand the urban tree canopy as part of the Green Minneapolis Climate Resiliency Initiative.
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