In addition: 17 St. Olaf Fellows suspended after attending an off-campus party where no mask was used; Timberwolves wins NBA draft lottery; Wisconsin election officials vote to prevent you, Kanye, from voting; And more.
In the Star Tribune, Libor Jany states: “The third community can soon move to a transitional site a few blocks from its burned old space on the south side of Minneapolis. On Thursday, a City Council committee signed a $1.2 million- one-year lease with Lothenbach Properties II and Imagine Express for a construction to space out third-round officials, which in recent months have been running at the Minneapolis Convention Center, among other places. The measure will have to be approved by the entire council and Mayor Jacob Frey.
Peter Cox, of MPR, writes: “As University of Minnesota academics prepare to start the categories in a few weeks, they know they can only plan. Arrangement.. For academics heading to campus, there seem to be many more unknowns than are known at the moment. Courses that would have taken a position on the user switched to distance learning: at least 70% of U courses were completed to be online by the end of July. Welcome week occasions are online. And a major feature of life on a Big Ten campus, school football, is not this fall.”
Also in the Star Tribune, Ryan Faircloth writes: “Seventeen academics at St. Olaf College in Northfield were fired during the fall semester after finishing an off-campus party where no masks were wearing and at least one student was already inflamed with COVID. -19, announced the school on Thursday. “This is the kind of reckless habit that will end our semester in person and will have to stop,” said St. Olaf’s President David Anderson. Fifty students must be quarantined due to a lack of social distance. »
For TIM Bontemps’ reports of ESPN, “The Minnesota Timberwolves won the 2020 NBA draw on Thursday night and the right to the first overall pick in the draft later this year. The Timberwolves, who finished the season with the third worst record, will be followed. through the Golden State Warriors, who finished the season with the worst record, then the Charlotte Hornets and Chicapass Bulls in the October 16 Draft Array … last year, when Zion Williamson and Ja Morant were obviously the first and most select outs of the draft. , this year’s customer harvest is very open, with no consensus on who goes where.
AP reports: “Wisconsin election officials on Thursday will keep rapper Kanye West off the battlefield of the state’s presidential election in November because his crusade returned his nomination statements minutes after the deadline. West announced in July that he was running for president in a position. he calls the “birthday party.” Democrats say Republicans are pushing the West’s candidacy in several undecided states to deflect black votes from Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden.”
At the Star Tribune, Evan Ramstad writes: “The directors of the Otto Bremer Trust, fighting the state attorney general to continue running one of Minnesota’s largest charities, asked Thursday for their efforts to deport them illegally and unprecedentedly. Fix ..” The Prosecutor The Attorney’s attempt to summarily remove directors, in a secret register on his own initiative, violates any perception of fairness and justice, “they accepted it as true in a case signed through his open-air attorney, Michael Ciresi of Minneapolis.”
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According to NBC News Doha Madani, “coronavirus cases similar to this month’s Sturgis motorcycle rally in South Dakota have made the impression in every state of Nebraska,” public fitness officials said Thursday. At least seven new instances in the domain have connected to the demonstration, the Panhandle Public Health District showed NBC News. The Department of Health did not provide additional details. The annual 10-day rally began on August 7 and took place on Sunday and attracted more than 460,000 vehicles, according to the South Dakota Department of Transportation. “
Heather Murphy of the New York Times said: “A plant extract presented this week as a ‘cure’ for covid-19 through the director of a pillow company has not been tested and is potentially dangerous, scientists say. Mike Lindell, the executive leader of My Pillow and a major donor to President Trump, told Axios that the president was excited about the drug, called oleandrin, when he found out at a White House assembly last month. Array.. The mobile exam also raises questions about drug protection. Said Dr. Melissa Halliday Gittinger, a toxicologist at the Georgia Poisoning Center and a professor at Emory University School of Medicine. A dose of laurel rose as small as 0.02 micrograms consistent with milliliters can be fatal.”
According to Joe Nelson of BringMeTheNews, “There are now 29 bars or restaurants that have been connected to COVID-19 outbreaks since food service was allowed to resume in Minnesota on June 10 at the end of July.”
Reuters PJ reporters Huffstutter and Mark Weinraub write: “A clearer picture of crop damage on the way to last week’s right typhoon gave the impression that crop seekers on an annual tour ran to corn stalks and windshed soybean fields in Illinois and Iowa. Iowa officials warned Tuesday that much of the harvest on the way to the August 10 typhoon will not be picked up. Approximately 14 million acres, or 57% of Iowa’s planted area, were affected. Iowa maize is critical to global commodity markets and food supply chains. A big loss in the largest generating state could wipe out record domestic corn forecasts at a time when China is buying more grains. About 52% of all maize produced in Iowa grew on agricultural land affected by the law …. »
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