Minneapolis, MN
North High School transforms into community solar garden
The brand new mission permits extra group members with decrease incomes to faucet into solar energy.
MINNEAPOLIS — 9 hundred photo voltaic panels are actually on the roof of North highschool in Minneapolis, making a group photo voltaic backyard.
Minneapolis Local weather Motion leaders say this $500,000 mission creates equitable entry to renewable vitality and helps scale back greenhouse fuel emissions.
“To have a photo voltaic array coming to North Excessive each as an vitality alternative; a studying alternative is a particular alternative,” stated subscriber Whitney Terrill.
I guess you are questioning how this works.
Subscribers should buy shares of vitality produced by the photo voltaic backyard, and Xcel Power pays them.
Turning into a subscriber is easy.
All you do is enroll on-line after which select cost choices.
Each-kilowatt share prices $950. You should buy one kilowatt or extra relying in your electrical utilization. The vitality consultants will work out how a lot you want.
The very best half: you do not have to pay upfront. You possibly can pay as you go.
“You pay to your subscriptions every month. We do not verify credit score scores, require a minimal earnings, or require cash upfront. That was a really intentional resolution to make this accessible,” stated Kyle Samejima, Government Director of Minneapolis Local weather Motion.
Every month you will get a invoice credit score from Xcel Power. You get to maintain your entire invoice credit score, however you ship a portion of it to Minneapolis Local weather Motion to pay to your subscription.
Samejima says your invoice credit score will at all times be larger than what you pay Minneapolis Local weather Motion.
“We’re dedicated to prioritizing North highschool and Minneapolis households,” stated Samejima. “Particularly group members with low incomes to ensure that they lastly get an opportunity to take part within the renewable vitality transition in ways in which profit them, too.”
The second possibility is paying to your subscription upfront. You may additionally get a invoice credit score from Xcel Power every month, and you may pay a $47 upkeep payment yearly.
Here is details about how a lot cash it can save you in your electrical invoice.
It is an ideal and simple technique to be a part of the renewable vitality motion and put a reimbursement in your pocket.
“It is arduous to deliver these initiatives ahead. So it is an ideal alternative, a uncommon alternative. I encourage individuals to ask the questions they might have about it after which go for it in case you really feel comfy,” stated Terrill.
You need to dwell in Hennepin County or a county that touches Hennepin County and be an Xcel Power buyer to take part.
There are about 100 spots left.
Samejima provides that this mission can be helpful to the group as a result of it offers native jobs and companions with native photo voltaic builders and installers which can be Black-owned.
The photo voltaic backyard goes dwell early this summer season.
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Minneapolis, MN
Minneapolis reaches agreement with DOJ to instate oversight in police reform – Washington Examiner
The city of Minneapolis and the Justice Department have reached a tentative agreement for a consent decree to place the city’s police department under federal oversight.
Members of the Minneapolis City Council are expected to review the agreement on Monday with the intention of finalizing it before the inauguration of President-elect Donald Trump, who has been a vocal opponent of the move. He has called the court-enforceable reform a “war on police.”
There has been great concern Trump will try to stop the mandated federal oversight of the city’s police department, as city officials began their inquiry into the department’s misconduct nearly five years ago following the death of George Floyd.
“We haven’t taken our foot off the gas since we started, and I have no intention of taking the foot off the gas,” City Attorney Kristyn Anderson said in an interview last month. “I’m still hopeful we’re gonna be able to land the plane on this one.”
In June 2023, the Justice Department concluded in a report that the Minneapolis Police Department had repeatedly used “unjustified deadly force and excessive less-lethal force,” unlawfully discriminated against black and Native American people, violated First Amendment rights, and caused trauma or death when responding to people with behavioral health problems.
The city and the DOJ were expected to begin negotiating terms for the decree, but it took nearly a year for the DOJ to submit a draft consent decree for feedback following the published report.
There was no rationale provided for the delay. Already, the city has entered into a consent decree with the state. The Minnesota Department of Human Rights has entered a four-year oversight agreement with the city to monitor the MPD and ensure changes are made to ensure no racial discrimination is taking place.
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Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey has allocated $16 million in 2024 and $11 million in 2025 to manage the reforms expected to be implemented from the decrees. Last year, MPD launched an Implementation Unit that will focus on improving data collection and ensuring that compliance with the new standards is met.
If the city council agrees to the terms laid out by the Justice Department, the MPD will be the first police department in the country to be subjected to both a federal and state consent decree.
MINNEAPOLIS — The 19 Bar, the oldest LGBTQ+ bar in Minnesota, was targeted by a burglar overnight Tuesday amid the push to rebuild it following a devastating fire.
Owner Gary Lee Hallberg tells WCCO the thief took some tools, a backpack and batteries with chargers from the historic Loring Park bar.
He says the security system has yet to be reinstalled since the bar was destroyed on March 23.
The setback comes just days after Hallberg announced the bar wouldn’t reopen as planned on New Year’s Eve due to delays in construction and inspections.
In August, Hallberg filed a $2.8 million lawsuit against a recycling company whose garbage truck struck the electrical pole next to the bar, which then fell on the building and ignited the fire. Hallberg says the fire occurred just weeks before he was set to close a deal on selling the bar, which was subsequently canceled.
While the recycling company admits fault for the accident, it refutes Hallberg’s claims that the bar was a total loss.
The 19 Bar is one of the oldest operating LGBTQ+ bars in the country, first opening its doors to customers in 1952.
Hallberg says he hopes to reopen by early February.
Kirsten Mitchell will bring us inside The 19 Bar to see the reconstruction effort firsthand Tuesday on WCCO 4 News at 9.
Minneapolis, MN
Minneapolis-based agency donates 50% of profits to use ‘business as a force of good’
Krista Carroll CEO and founder of Latitude (Latitude/Latitude)
To build Latitude into a full-service agency, Carroll hired subject-matter experts and added brand, strategy, creative, experiential and other services. While starting a business amid the Great Recession was “scary,” the prospect of it not flourishing was less dire than what they had seen in Haiti, she said.
“We can figure something else out,” she said.
The beginning of the pandemic, however, proved “really devastating,” Carroll said. Most client work then was in retail event activations and in-store merchandising, and 90% of current and forecasted business went away within a few days. Latitude continued some charitable giving, having put money into a donor-advised fund for that purpose.
“During those layoffs, I was like, full transparency, maybe I shouldn’t have given so much away, even though we were a healthy company,” Carroll said. “But I decided that I truly believe that ‘business as a force for good’ is a worthy cause, and one that is worth digging really deep for. Even though it’s been a really steep climb, I still like the purpose of why we exist. Still gets me out of bed in the morning.”
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