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Minnesota Power solar projects in Duluth, Brainerd online by year end

DULUTH — Two new photo voltaic initiatives in northern Minnesota will start offering energy to the grid by the top of the yr, and a 3rd will come on-line within the spring.
Gary Meader / Duluth Information Tribune
As soon as all are operational, Minnesota Energy’s three initiatives will produce a mixed 20 megawatts — sufficient photo voltaic vitality to energy roughly 4,000 properties.
The Duluth-based utility firm on Wednesday held a celebration marking the completion of its 1.6-megawatt venture on an 8.5-acre lot leased from the town of Duluth on the intersection of Jean Duluth and Riley roads.
Just like the Duluth location, a bigger 15-megawatt photo voltaic venture at Minnesota Energy’s Sylvan Hydro Station close to Brainerd will likely be operational by the top of the yr.
The ultimate venture, a 5.6-megawatt photo voltaic venture at its Laskin Vitality Heart in Hoyt Lakes, will likely be completed this spring.
The three initiatives, costing a mixed $40 million,
had been sped up throughout summer season 2020
after Minnesota regulators urged utilities to leap begin renewable vitality initiatives to assist with the state’s COVID-19 financial restoration.
And it largely relied on native labor and supplies. All 3,770 photo voltaic panels used on the Duluth website had been
manufactured at Heliene, Inc. in Mountain Iron.
Steve Kuchera / Duluth Information Tribune
“That is most likely essentially the most economically native venture Minnesota Energy has ever undertaken, which was supposed from the early planning phases,” stated Minnesota Energy Venture Supervisor Carrie Ryan.
Lucas Franco, analysis supervisor on the Laborers’ Worldwide Union of North America, in Minnesota and North Dakota, stated the three initiatives created virtually 40 “household sustaining development jobs for native employees.”
“All three of Minnesota Energy’s photo voltaic initiatives, together with this one, used virtually solely native laborers, vastly growing the optimistic financial affect. Native employees spend three to 4 occasions extra domestically than non-local employees,” Franco stated.
Steve Kuchera / Duluth Information Tribune
“It is also in sharp distinction to what we have seen on different renewable vitality initiatives by different corporations, particularly in southern Minnesota, that haven’t relied on native employees. So it is actually a giant deal.”
And it will get Minnesota Energy nearer to its renewable vitality objectives, stated Bethany Owen, chair, president and CEO of Allete, Minnesota Energy’s guardian firm.
“… It is an necessary step in direction of our reaching our imaginative and prescient of offering 100% free vitality by 2050,” Owen stated.
Steve Kuchera / Duluth Information Tribune

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Minnesota Lynx take down Chicago Sky 91-78

Napheesa Collier had 29 points, five assists and three steals, Courtney Williams added 18 points, eight rebounds, seven assists and four steals and the Minnesota Lynx beat the Chicago Sky 91-78 on Monday night.
Minnesota (19-4), which played its fourth game in six days, avenged an 87-81 loss to the Sky on Saturday.
Bridget Carleton opened the third quarter with a 3-pointer to give the Lynx a lead, 47-46, they would not relinquish the rest of the way.
Collier added a 3-pointer with 0.4 seconds left in the third, off a nice drive and assist from Williams, to extend Minnesota’s lead to 68-63. Collier also capped an 8-2 run to begin the fourth with two free throws to make it 76-65.
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Minnesota forced a turnover on three straight possessions late in the fourth and converted three layups at the other end for an 87-74 lead with 2:39 left.
Collier was 7 of 14 from the field, including 4 of 7 from 3-point range, and 11 of 11 at the free-throw line.
Kayla McBride added 17 points and Carleton scored 11 for the Lynx, who made 12 of 32 3-pointers.
Angel Reese secured her ninth straight double-double for Chicago (7-14) with 22 points and 10 rebounds. Rachel Banham added 15 points and Rebecca Allen scored 10. Ariel Atkins, who scored 27 points on Saturday, left in the second quarter and did not return due to a leg injury.
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Trial will be

It’s a high-stakes trial that could ultimately give Republicans and Democrats a 50-50 split in the Minnesota Senate.
“It has such political ramifications,” said Twin Cities attorney Mike Bryant. “I think a lot of people will be watching what happens.”
It was April 2024, when the criminal complaint said Minnesota Sen. Nicole Mitchell‘s stepmother’s called 911 to report a burglary at her Detroit Lakes home. Mitchell allegedly told police she entered the home to retrieve personal items connected to her recently deceased father, because her stepmother had cut off contact.
In a social media post, Mitchell denied all allegations. Mitchell said she had gone to check on a family member with Alzheimer’s disease.
Bryant said he feels Mitchell will have to testify.
“Unless the state has a really super weak case that they can’t prove anything, I think it’s going to be one of those situations where the jury’s going to want to hear from her,” said Bryant.
“I think it’s going to be very difficult to win,” said Minneapolis criminal defense attorney Joe Tamburino. “Let’s face it, according to what’s in the complaint and what we imagine the prosecutor will prove at trial, is that she was found in the house at the very early morning hours, she was dressed in black and she was discovered by her stepmother and then supposedly she ran down to the basement, and then when the police got there, she made a number of incriminating statements.”
Tamburino said Mitchell’s defense team will be calling on character witnesses.
“Those are witnesses who would say ‘look, the defendant is someone who’s honest, trustworthy, a good person,’” said Tamburino.
They will also try for something called jury nullification.
“Meaning you’re just telling the jury you never had the intent to do this, you’re a good person, so please find me not guilty,” said Tamburino. “Will there be witnesses, like factual witnesses, to say things that ‘well some of this property really was belonging to the defendant Ms. Mitchell’ or ‘some of this property was meant to go to her.’”
Bryant said he expects the longest part of the trial to be jury selection. If a jury can be picked in time, he expects the trial should wrap by the end of the week.
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