Minnesota
City Council pressures northeast Minnesota mayor to resign
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TWO HARBORS, Minn. — At a gathering that solely obliquely referred to the allegations in opposition to him, officers on Monday requested embattled Mayor Chris Swanson to step down.
Metropolis Council members voted 6-0 to ask Swanson to stop his put up. Their decision isn’t legally binding — councilors don’t have the authority to fireplace Swanson — and the mayor is already set to face a recall election in August, however councilor after councilor repeated basically the identical message: They need him out.
“We have now work that must be carried out, and for the final six months it has been almost not possible for our metropolis to maneuver ahead on something,” Robin Glaser, the council’s vice chairman, stated in a crowded council chambers, claiming it will take years for town to be revered once more. “If the mayor actually cares concerning the neighborhood, he would step down and let the therapeutic start.”
Swanson himself was absent. He stated earlier this month that he doesn’t plan to resign.
Different council members on Monday echoed Glaser’s sentiment, claiming that it had been tough to conduct metropolis enterprise over the previous few months.
“It’s divided us, and I believe it’s time for the mayor to resign,” Councilor Miles Woodruff stated. Final month, the council voted 6-1 to authorize a recall election later this summer time. The lone “no” vote was Swanson himself.
Every councilor who spoke earlier than and after their symbolic vote Monday stopped wanting explicating any particular misgivings with Swanson.
Nonetheless, an opinion authored by metropolis legal professional Timothy Costley and a certificates submitted to metropolis directors by petitioners who prompted the August recall vote shed loads of gentle.
Costley concluded that Swanson repeatedly used his place “for private profit or enterprise curiosity” and violated Two Harbors’ metropolis code, its communications coverage, or each on 5 separate events:
- An look on a podcast to tout his plan for an underwater lodge in Lake Superior
- A 2017 incident during which Swanson reportedly used data advised to him in confidence, as mayor, to affect his spouse to purchase the Lou’s Fish Home constructing
- When the mayor used his mayoral electronic mail handle and title to solicit cash for the Associates of the Bandshell Park nonprofit. The group was reportedly paying Storage Begins, an organization that listed Swanson as CEO on its web site, to assist increase cash for a public performing arts middle
- When Swanson solicited buyers for the underwater lodge by way of a web site that claimed “Mayor Swanson can be in contact.”
- And when he tweeted about eager to create an official Two Harbors cryptocurrency as a supply of metropolis income and promoted Storage Begins, an organization that listed Swanson as its CEO on its web site.
The grievances outlined by recall petitioners overlap considerably with those Costley analyzed for town. In addition they take challenge with the bandshell fundraising, the web site, Lou’s buy, and the podcast look, however allege “severe malfeasance” on Swanson’s half in two additional cases:
- When he urged the council to vote to authorize a letter of assist for town to host the Competition of Sail a couple of month after his daughter fashioned a nonprofit to arrange the occasion.
- And when Swanson “repeatedly promoted” on Twitter a nonprofit for which he was a board member.
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Minnesota
Residents say crypt-no to crypto mining facility in small town Minnesota
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Jeff St. Onge, senior operations manager at Revolve Labs, said Thursday the company has gone to great lengths to prevent noise pollution at the proposed Windom location. The company plans to install 12-foot-tall berms along the property and an alarm system where residents can monitor decibels levels coming from the fans. He said the closest residents will experience sound levels of 41 decibels, similar to current levels there.
St. Onge said the facility would not affect energy prices for Windom residents and that the company chose the area due to its cool weather, good energy rates and proximity to wind farms.
Most of the 100 residents at Thursday’s public hearing appeared skeptical about the company’s claims. The most common concern was noise.
“I like the quiet out there,” said Jay B Kipfer, who lives across the street from the site of the proposed facility. “I go out there at night, I hear the coyotes, I hear all the crickets. You guys come in there, I won’t hear that anymore. It’ll be a totally different life out there, for me and everybody else, and that sound is gonna resonate across Cottonwood Lake.”
Others spoke of the effect on home values, with some speakers questioning whether crypto mining benefits society.
The volume of the murmuring crowd at times reached a decibel level of about 70, according to Tiffany Lamb, Windom’s development director. At one point, Cottonwood County Commissioner Norm Holmen said he couldn’t hear a question because of a box fan blowing behind him.
Minnesota
Camden begins a new era with victory over Richfield in high school football
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While the game looked every bit like the first of the season, with its requisite mistakes and misplays, it was clear from the outset that Camden was the more focused bunch.
The Patriots — the school retained the nickname it had when it was Patrick Henry — moved the ball well, with senior quarterback Jadis Hartman scoring on a 14-yard run in the first quarter.
Hartman’s score was noted pridefully by announcer Marques Zackary as the “first touchdown in Camden history,” bringing cheers from the fans.
Hartman, playing quarterback for the first time in his career, added a 14-yard scoring pass to junior receiver Patrick Mix in the second quarter, giving Camden a 12-0 lead.
A safety — one of the few mistakes the Patriots made all evening — made the score 12-2 at halftime.
Richfield, mistake-prone before halftime, settled in the third quarter and started to make inroads on the Camden defense. But Hartman, playing with confidence and poise, daggered Richfield’s hopes for a comeback when he ran 71 yards down the left side for a touchdown early in the fourth quarter, making the score 18-2.
Minnesota
Analysis: Minnesota United’s strikers are important, but for coach Eric Ramsay, it all comes back to defense
MINNESOTA UNITED | ANALYSIS
Striker is soccer’s glamour position. It’s the forwards who score the goals and sell the jerseys, and it takes something pretty special for players at any other position to break through to that level of fan popularity.
Minnesota United played two strikers last week against Seattle, with a three-man midfield behind them. As the Loons travel to San Jose on Saturday to take on the last-place Earthquakes, it’s easy to focus on the glamour up front. It’s just not where the Loons themselves are necessarily focused.
New signing Kelvin Yeboah scored twice against Seattle. Breakout star and leading goal-scorer Tani Oluwaseyi will return from injury. The Loons still have veteran star Teemu Pukki, ready and willing to bang in a few more goals. It’s natural to ask: If they play more often with two forwards, which striker partnership might look the best, score the most and provide the most star power?
It’s instructive, though, that when you ask coach Eric Ramsay about playing with two strikers, he can’t help but end up talking about defense.
“The difficulty sometimes with playing with the two forwards is how you defend, and we’ve made a really big point about making sure that we get real aggression from how the wingbacks defend,” Ramsay said. “We don’t want the wingbacks defending as if they’re fullbacks in a flat back five, and we certainly don’t want them attacking in that way.”
Having three midfielders instead of two seems like it should be more defensive, not less. The positioning of the players, though, means the problem becomes the width of the field.
When the Loons play with three up front, the two widest forwards — Ramsay refers to them as “number 10s,” the designation usually used for attacking midfielders — can naturally drop back on either side to defend on the outside, across the midfield area. This means the wingbacks, whose natural spot on defense would be in a back line of five players, don’t have as much responsibility to bolt out of the back five and defend the opposition’s wide players in midfield.
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