Star Tribune’s Sarah Ritter reports the Brooklyn Park City Council has extended the censure of council member Boyd Morson “in response to claims that he continues to disrespect staff and display inappropriate behavior online.”

[Subscriber only] Duluth News Tribune has a look into the 2021 investigator’s report on Duluth East coach Mike Randolph who resigned abruptly amidst investigations of misconduct.

MPR’s Elizabeth Shockman writes about the many data requests being sent to Minnesota schools that are both costly and time-consuming to produce.

“Leaders in other districts say they’ve been similarly inundated the past few years with what sometimes appear to be politically motivated data requests that are massively expensive for the district, difficult to decipher and sometimes originate from out of state.

It’s vexed them to the point where they may seek changes in the coming legislative session to the state’s Government Data Practices Act .”

Via Racket : The Minnesota Star Tribune will r eceive $500,000 for a two-year AI fellow in partnership with OpenAI and Microsoft.

KSTP reports Minneapolis police are investigating after a school bus was found Monday evening with children inside. A neighbor reported seeing the children crying and “scared.” No children were harmed.

New suburb just dropped: Bring Me the News reports on St. Louis Park and Golden Valley’s marketing rebrand to “Westopolis.”

“It’s the work of destination-marketing organization Discover St. Louis Park, which assumed responsibility for also marketing Golden Valley and has now created a new name that reflects the area’s ‘ energy and cosmopolitan spirit ’ while emphasizing its proximity to Minneapolis and accessibility to the metro region.”

MPR interviewed a moderate Democratic farmer from southwestern Minnesota and conservative St. Olaf College student who swapped news sources to see what they could learn from each other and if they could find common ground.

Via Star Tribune : “State environmental regulators are suing the Lake County Planning Commission to try to stop a developer from building 49 new cabins at a century-old fishing resort on an entry lake to the Boundary Waters Canoe Wilderness Area.”

Associated Press via KARE : “Relatives of a City Council candidate in Richmond, Virginia, are casting doubt on his claim that he is a cousin of George Floyd , the Black man whose 2020 death in police custody reignited the national Black Lives Matter movement.”

KARE’s Dana Thiede reports on the retrial of Cody Fohrenkahm whose murder conviction in the case of Deshaun Hill was overturned by the Minnesota Court of Appeals.