More than 14,000 service workers across the University of Minnesota’s campuses could go on strike just as students return for the fall semester. “Our pay isn’t keeping up with inflation, and many of us are forced to work multiple jobs,” said Christy O’Connor, a 26-year senior building and grounds worker in a statement shared by Minnesota Reformer. The union also cited harassment and racial discrimination in their dispute with the U and a company that runs the university’s food service operations.
A 25-year-old Minnesota woman and mother of two is still in ICE custody despite obtaining a release order from a judge. Antonia Aguilar Maldonado’s attorneys say she “is being held at the Kandiyohi County Jail in Willmar, which houses ICE detainees, despite having no criminal record, an active asylum case, and a bond approved by an immigration judge,” MPR News reports. Aguilar Maldonado was arrested on her way to work on July 17. Agents cited an outdated removal order that had been previously canceled by a judge.
Lynx coach Cheryl Reeve is getting national attention today for her condemnation of a disturbing trend fans are displaying at WNBA games of late. “In at least two recent games going back to July 29, fans threw adult toys onto the court during live play,” Fox 9 reports. “A group of cryptocurrency enthusiasts are taking responsibility for the incidents, saying it was ‘not intended to be sexist.’ They say it’s to spread awareness about a culture they want to promote, sparked by jokes and pranks.” Reeve isn’t laughing. “We’re not the butt of the joke, they’re the problem, and we need to take action,” she said.
Might downtown Stillwater be the new Vegas Strip? After seeing success in Anoka, the city is contemplating opening a social district to allow public drinking downtown. Residents are split pretty evenly on the issue according to a city-wide survey. “I definitely want to say that is certainly not our intent, to turn downtown Stillwater into Vegas, people throwing beads off the balconies kind of scenario,” Stillwater Mayor Ted Kozlowski told WCCO News. City officials are still gathering input from downtown residents before moving forward with a decision.
As State Fair season draws near, a pair of Duluth artists are in an unexpected last-minute scramble. Anna and Nathanael Bailey, the husband-and-wife duo behind Bailey Builds, learned on Thursday that their “State Fair building was accidentally sold with less than two weeks before the Great Minnesota Get-Together begins,” reports Bring Me the News. This came after a Twin Cities storage company lost track of the shipping container where the building was being stored during the off-season. It happens to us all!
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