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Records: Backbiting and backtracking behind a City’s Pledge of Allegiance drama
Internal city documents obtained by Public Record Media show that City Council members and city staff in St. Louis Park engaged in finger-pointing and arguments over who was to blame for putting the 49,000-resident suburb of Minneapolis under an unwelcome microscope. ... Continue Reading
Documents: Federal regulators quickly changed course on Boundary Waters mining
New documents show that a year after the Trump administration took office, federal regulators were hurriedly trying to keep pace with the new U.S. president and industry supporters who wanted to revive a controversial mining project near the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness (BWCAW) in northern Minnesota. ... Continue Reading
Getting reimbursed for a Trump rally gets complicated for Minneapolis
Documents obtained by Saint Paul-based non-profit Public Record Media (PRM) indicate that instead of pressuring the Republican president’s campaign, city officials instead focused their attention on AEG Facilities, the operators of the city-owned Target Center that had a contract with the Trump campaign for the rally. ... Continue Reading
Records: For years, federal regulators pushed for mining near Boundary Waters as they eyed financial royalties
Hundreds of documents obtained by Public Record Media show that federal regulators have for years weighed a significant factor: how mining projects would generate significant financial royalties for the federal government. ... Continue Reading
For the Super Bowl, the NFL gets into airport management
When the Super Bowl was held in Minneapolis in 2018, federal aviation officials had a unique partner to make sure private planes bringing in fans avoided a logjam at Twin Cities airports – the National Football League. ... Continue Reading
For St. Paul’s soccer stadium, a behind-the-scenes tussle for federal approval
As the plan to build a Major League Soccer stadium in Saint Paul gained momentum in 2015, a potential problem stood in the way: Would the federal government let a sports stadium be built on property that had been purchased for transit? ... Continue Reading