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Stimulus check update: Direct payment worth $500 to be sent to Minneapolis residents in three days

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2 years ago

May 17, 2023

Stimulus check update: Direct payment worth 0 to be sent to Minneapolis residents in three days

A guaranteed income program in Minneapolis will process its next payment to recipients in three days.

The payment, which will be sent on May 20, is a part of the Minneapolis Guaranteed Basic Income Pilot, which began in June 2022 and is expected to pay recipients monthly cash payments through June 2024. Two-hundred households were selected to receive payments from this program, and they can all spend the $500 payments in whatever way suits them best, according to the city’s website.

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To have been eligible for this program, an applicant had to be 18 years old by Jan. 1, 2022, have an annual income at or below 50% of the area median income for Minneapolis, and live in one of several ZIP codes specified by the program. Additionally, applicants had to have been affected by the coronavirus pandemic. Qualifying effects of the pandemic include losing a job, having higher health expenses, or losing access to child care.

The project manager for this guaranteed income program told the Washington Examiner that payments for this program are processed on the 20th of every month and all participants receive $500 every month.

The program is being evaluated by the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, according to the project manager.

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Regarding the demographics of this program, recipients are mostly black, indigenous, or people of color, at 80.5%. The other recipients, at 19.5%, are either white or non-Hispanic. Additionally, 69% of the program’s recipients are women, and 42.5% of all recipients are between 30 and 39.

About a third of households receiving money from this program have just one person in the household.

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Minneapolis hit and run survivor shares message of resilience

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17 hours ago

June 12, 2025

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Minneapolis hit and run survivor shares message of resilience

A hit-and-run survivor in Bloomington is back on his feet more than two years after he was almost paralyzed.

On a frigid December day in 2022, Luke Zimmer saw a woman stuck in a snowbank along I-35W South near Johnson Street northeast in Minneapolis. He stopped to help tow her out.

“Just as I thought, ‘Okay there’s a good spot, I’ve moved enough snow I can get a strap around part of the wheel,’ and I had reached back to grab the tow strap, then everything went black,” said Zimmer. “I didn’t hear anything.”

State Patrol identified the vehicle that hit him as a Toyota Sienna van. The driver took off from the scene.

“The next thing I know, I’m lying upside down in a snowbank,” said Zimmer, who described not being able to feel his legs. “I couldn’t get up, and I couldn’t make sense of the situation. I literally had to lie there in the snow until someone could help, and that was the first time I ever remember feeling that helpless.”

The woman he stopped to help flagged down others who were driving by, including an off-duty paramedic who told him to lie still.

A GoFundMe page that was created for the family after the crash described bystanders covering Zimmer with a sleeping bag, putting hand warmers around him and talking to him as they waited for an ambulance in sub-zero wind chills.

Someone also placed a bright hat on his head.

“I wear it almost every winter just as a reminder of the kindness of strangers,” said Zimmer.

He underwent an eight-hour surgery to repair a shattered vertebra. Extensive physical therapy followed and by the time he left the hospital three weeks later, he could walk again.

“We are just so thankful for how far we have come because we didn’t know,” said Michelle Zimmer, his wife. “I was preparing myself for him to be permanently paralyzed.”

Walking around their backyard, the Zimmers showed us their flock of chickens and ducks. They’ve started a business called Bloomington Farm and Feed, which delivers Minnesota-sourced products to customers’ doorsteps.

“It helps lower the carbon footprint, it helps improve the quality of eggs people are providing for their families and also having that local Minnesota farmer support,” said Zimmer.

The idea developed during Zimmer’s recovery, when they couldn’t travel the distance to pick up the high-quality feed they typically used. Michelle Zimmer explained that part of the GoFundMe donations helped them get the business started.

Meanwhile, State Patrol told 5 EYEWITNESS NEWS there’s no update in the case, which means the driver who hit Zimmer is still out there.

“I actually don’t blame him, I don’t,” said Zimmer. “It was an accident, and I feel bad that he was in such a place in his life that he couldn’t stay because it’s going to be with him for the rest of his life, not knowing what happened.”

Zimmer said if the driver proactively game to him and apologized, he would forgive them.

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Minneapolis police consent decree reforms to be implemented despite dismissal

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2 days ago

June 11, 2025

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Minneapolis police consent decree reforms to be implemented despite dismissal – CBS Minnesota

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Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey issued an executive order on Tuesday instructing the city to fully implement all reforms outlined in a consent decree weeks after its dismissal.

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Minneapolis police: We can't assist with immigration enforcement

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2 days ago

June 10, 2025

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Minneapolis police: We can't assist with immigration enforcement

From the Minnesota Star Tribune: “Days after a federal raid in south Minneapolis drew protests and intense scrutiny, Assistant [Minneapolis] Police Chief Katie Blackwell sent a department-wide memo emphasizing they are not allowed to assist with immigration enforcement. The email was sent to sworn and civilian staff Friday afternoon, three days after two armored vehicles and federal officers rolled through the streets of south Minneapolis to serve a search warrant in connection to what federal officials called a ‘transnational criminal organization’ suspected of drug and human trafficking and money laundering.

From the Associated Press: “Adults living in the U.S. illegally will be excluded from a state-run health care program under an overall budget deal that the closely divided Minnesota Legislature convened to pass in a special session Monday. … The change is expected to affect about 17,000 residents.”

From MPR News: “Our weather pattern will take a more typical summery and thundery June turn this week. Tuesday brings plenty of sunshine and warmer temperatures in the 80s to much of Minnesota. Then a warm front will stall across southern Minnesota along the Interstate 90 corridor between Wednesday and Friday. That front will be the focus of a few rounds of thunderstorms.”

From WCCO News: “The University of Minnesota is proposing tuition hikes of up to 7.5% and cuts to academic programs for the next fiscal year as it navigates what it calls ‘unprecedented challenges facing higher education.’ Under the proposal, undergraduate tuition rates would increase at all of U of M campuses across the state.”

From Bring Me The News: “Anxiety over current U.S. border and LGBTQ policies under the Trump administration has led a Canadian group to scrap the Minnesota leg of its annual cross-border Pride parade. Borderland Pride has announced that its cross-border Pride March will not start in International Falls this year. The event will instead take place entirely within Fort Frances on the Canadian side of the border.”

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