Liz Navratil at the Star Tribune reports University of Minnesota police arrested nine people after a pro-Palestinian encampment set up overnight on the Northrup Mall on the Twin Cities campus. “The group was asked to disperse by 7 a.m. and told they would be arrested if they chose to stay past that time,” the university said in a statement.
Via the Associated Press: Delta Air Lines, the most profitable U.S. carrier, is raising pay for nonunion employees as it gets ready for another attempt by a union to represent its flights attendants.
Jennifer Hoff at KARE 11 is reporting Anoka-Hennepin school board member Matt Audette is threatening a showdown if the district doesn’t get rid of a list of programs around gender and racial equity. In response, hundreds of students gathered and held a unity march ahead of Monday’s school board meeting.
Emma Nelson at the Star Tribune is reporting Craig Cohen, the developer behind St. Paul’s Keg and Case, filed for bankruptcy Friday, claiming $11.6 million in liabilities that includes a range of business debts.
Saija Maki-Waller at Mpls.St.Paul Magazine has a story about how Native communities, the state government, and the Minnesota Zoo are working together to revitalize the bison population. Every bison in North America today comes from a group of less than 100 that survived near-extinction in the late 1800s.
Nina Moini and Alanna Elder at MPR News report a new vinyl record pressing plant, called Outta Wax, is set to open in the Phillips neighborhood of south Minneapolis this year. Two of its three founders, Sara Pette and Alex Stillman, are interviewed in the piece.
Nick Halter at Axios tried out Sun Country’s 21-minute flight from the Twin Cities to Eau Claire’s Chippewa Valley Regional Airport. Sun Country is getting $6.5 million a year from the U.S. Department of Transportation to fly to MSP and three other cities from Eau Claire.
