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Here’s how much April 2022 weather has sucked in Minnesota
It is OK to say it: April climate has sucked far more than traditional in Minnesota.
Eighteen days into this supposedly “higher than winter” month and it has rained or snowed 13 days and the typical excessive temp has been simply over 46 levels within the Twin Cities.
Fourteen days have had beneath regular temps, with this newest stretch of 5 days that includes temps 10-20 levels beneath regular. And that rattling wind. Do you know that the wind has gusted above 30 mph within the Twin Cities 14 of the 18 days this April?
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Maybe you seen that 58 mph gust on April 14 or that 51 mph gust April 12 or that fifty mph gust April 11 or that 47 mph gust April 15 or that 46 mph gust April 10.
However hey, it was sunny on Saturday and our youngsters’ palms did not freeze on the playground for no less than 3-4 minutes. Daring North.
Because the flip of the century, solely two Aprils within the Twin Cities have sucked as a lot as this one has, though the 2022 model of the Fools month has 12 days to right itself earlier than taking place in historical past as 100% depressing.
You understand what the typical excessive temp within the Twin Cities has been in April in recent times? Put together to be jealous. Behold, April within the Twin Cities yearly since 2000:
2021: 57.1 levels (common excessive temp) — 14 days over 60, a couple of over 70, one at 85
2020: 55.4 levels — 14 days no less than 60 levels, and three over 70
2019: 55.2 levels — 9 days over 60 levels and 4 at 70 or hotter
2018: 47.4 levels — this one was depressing with 26.1 inches of snow.
2017: 59.3 levels — 14 days over 60 and 5 at 70-plus
2016: 56.9 levels — 12 days over 60, together with six straight days between 71 and 80
2015: 59.9 levels — 17 days over 60 (it was 84 on April 1!)
2014: 51.4 levels — 9 days over 60 and a pair within the 70s
2013: 48.6 levels — 6.4 inches of snow at MSP on April 18, it was a foul April
2012: 59.6 levels — 14 days over 60 and some over 70
2011: 55.1 levels — 10 days over 60
2010: 65.5 levels — 27 days over 60! Coldest temp was a morning low of 32
2009: 57.4 levels — 12 days over 60 together with a excessive of 85 on April 23
2008: 52.9 levels — 10 days over 60 and some 70s
2007: 57.5 levels — 16 days over 60, all of them consecutively to finish the month
2006: 63.4 levels — 19 days over 60 and a bunch of 70s
2005: 61.7 levels — 17 days over 60 and eight over 70
2004: 61.7 levels — 14 days over 60, and sooner or later at 88 and one other at 91 levels
2003: 57.8 levels — 16 days over 60, a handful over 70 and one at 89 levels
2002: 54.9 levels — 11 days over 60 and three between 84 and 91 levels
2001: 57.7 levels — 12 days over 60, together with seven over 70 levels
2000: 56.6 levels — 13 days over 60, together with six over 70 levels
In the event you’re counting, April 2022 has produced two days with temps over 60. Chilly, depressing, moist and windy.
And it will get worse with each step you’re taking to the north. In the event you assume it is depressing within the Twin Cities, attempt April in St. Cloud, Brainerd, Bemidji or Duluth – the place they’ve additionally needed to cope with way more snow.
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Minnesota’s fourth marijuana dispensary opens near Red Wing
PRAIRIE ISLAND INDIAN COMMUNITY, Minn. — Minnesota’s fourth marijuana dispensary is now open just about an hour from the Twin Cities.
Island Pezi, which means “grass” in the Dakota language, is on Prairie Island Indian Community land in Welch, owned and operated by the tribal nation.
“Being able to diversify our economy and bring in other revenue sources for our community that relies on these type of businesses to have our government function is very important,” said Blake Johnson, the president of Prairie Island CBH Inc.
Johnson says the money made from the dispensary will go toward healthcare and education for the tribe.
The shop employs about three dozen people.
“We have a couple [tribe] members that have never had a job before,” Johnson said. “This opportunity gives them that, and they’re excited to be employed.”
The business has a quirk, though. The Prairie Island people don’t yet grow or cultivate marijuana on their own.
They’ve entered a unique business arrangement to stock their shelves. They buy flower from the White Earth Nation.
“Long time ago, tribes used to have intertribal agreements to trade goods,” Johnson said. “It helps support each other and be able to move in a way that is good for everybody.”
Minnesota’s Native American tribes have been first into this budding industry, and until the floodgates of competition eventually open, Johnson says they’re excited about being able to immediately supply Minnesotans.
Island Pezi will have a grand opening celebration on Saturday.
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After months stuck in Brazil, Minnesota family arrives home with newborn
Lori Tocholke waited nervously near baggage claim carousel 11 Tuesday afternoon at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport, her heart “beating a thousand miles per hour.”
On March 12, Tocholke’s newest grandchild, Greyson Leo Phillips, was born, 2 pounds 2.6 ounces and 12 weeks ahead of schedule.
The premature birth was traumatic enough for Tocholke’s daughter, Cheri Phillips. Worse was the fact that Greyson was born while Phillips and her husband, Chris, were vacationing in Brazil.
Because of a technicality, Brazilian authorities refused to issue his birth certificate. Without a birth certificate, Greyson couldn’t get a U.S. passport. And without a U.S. passport, Greyson couldn’t go home to Minnesota.
The family’s travails caused a storm in Brazilian media, held up as an example of how the country’s bureaucracy can tie up daily life for no good reason.
At the airport Tuesday, a half-dozen news cameras encircled the entry to baggage claim.
All Tocholke wanted?
To hold her newest grandchild for the first time, 105 heart-wrenching days after he was born. Tocholke told the other waiting family members she had first dibs.
The plane landed at 1:48 p.m., seven minutes early. Tocholke bided her time as Chris, Cheri and Greyson gathered their things from the plane and made their way from gate G19 to baggage claim.
Suddenly, a stroller burst through the doors, then Cheri, then Chris: a happy, exhausted family, finally home. Applause erupted. Tocholke hugged her daughter, then she got down to the business at hand: That sweet baby boy.
Greyson’s silver-blue eyes peered up at his grandma as she scooped him out of the stroller and cooed. He cried a few times. “Oh, I know!” his grandma soothed. She snuggled him and jiggled him, and he quieted. She held him like a football, then passed him to another family member, who passed him to another, then another.
“Everybody’s here, everybody’s safe, my heart is full,” Tocholke said.
A few feet away, tears and sweat streamed down Chris Phillips’ face and chest, exhausted after three days of travel and months of uncertainty. The family had gone to Brazil to visit Chris’ 8-year-old daughter, who lives with her mom in the Brazilian coastal city of Florianópolis.
“It was an ordeal, and not something we ever expected,” he said. “We went down for 17 days, just to visit my daughter on her birthday. Along this entire process, it seems like every time we made one step forward, it was three steps back.”
During their sojourn in Brazil, the family did interviews with a slew of Brazilian media outlets, focusing on the gaps in Brazilian bureaucracy. Their story resonated. Three days after Minnesota media first published the family’s story, two representatives from the Brazilian cartorio, like a public notary, came to their AirBnb with Greyson’s birth certificate.
“We love Brazil; this wasn’t us hating Brazil,” Chris said. “I go there three times a year. My daughter is half Brazilian. Now my son’s been born in Brazil. I feel part Brazilian. It’s a wonderful place. But what do I hope changes? I hope Brazilian bureaucracy is behind us, but for hundreds of millions of Brazilians, it’s not.”
Before they left the airport for the hour drive to Cambridge — to the new home they closed on remotely from Brazil — Cheri pulled out a bottle and fed Greyson.
“He’s been alive for three and a half months and never been home,” Cheri said.
“We’re home, bud,” Chris said, patting his head. “We’re home.”
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Minnesota companies fund election deniers despite vowing not to • Minnesota Reformer
In the wake of the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol, many leading Minnesota businesses announced they were pausing their political donations to review their giving strategy.
Some went further, vowing not to bankroll political candidates who supported Donald Trump’s attempt to overturn the 2020 election.
But today, three and a half years later, nearly all of them have resumed giving money to politicians engaging in election denial, according to an analysis by Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, a nonprofit that investigates government corruption.
Among them were some of Minnesota’s blue-chip mega corporations: UnitedHealth, Target, Best, Buy, 3M, U.S. Bancorp, Ameriprise and Ecolab, which all promised not to donate to members of what CREW calls the “sedition caucus.”
But as of today, they’ve given hundreds of thousands of dollars to politicians who voted against certifying the 2020 election, opposed the establishment of the Jan. 6 committee, or otherwise supported Trump’s attempt to undo the 2020 results.
A number of other Minnesota companies, including CHS, C.H. Robinson, Thrivent and Polaris, never promised to suspend donations and have continued giving money to candidates who sought to undermine the rightful, peaceful transfer of power after the 2020 election.
One of those companies, Moorhead-based American Crystal Sugar, has for years been one of the biggest financial supporters of the sedition caucus. According to CREW’s analysis, they’ve given over $1 million since 2021, the third highest amount in the nation. Among other things, they’re focused on maintaining the federal program that keeps sugar prices high and undergirds their profitability.
Only one current Minnesota lawmaker voted against certifying the 2020 election results: Rep. Michelle Fischbach of the 7th District, who falsely told Fox News shortly after the 2020 election that vote tabulators were “finding votes” when in fact they were counting them.
In a sign of the state Republican Party’s post-Jan. 6 radicalization, she was unable to obtain the party’s endorsement this year and is now facing a primary challenge from a Christian nationalist who says his goal is to “harness God’s power to lead ordinary Americans and their legislators in Washington back towards the Lord.”
CREW said the companies should mind the value of a stable democracy.
“Corporations depend on the stability and laws of a strong democracy in order to do business,” CREW writes. “Taking a stand against lawlessness aligns with the long-term interests of companies benefiting from government protection of intellectual property, contract enforcement and support for American business interests at home and abroad.”
According to their analysis, just one Minnesota company has so far upheld a promise to not give money to election deniers: Golden Valley-based Cheerio maker, General Mills.
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