The Chik-Wauk Museum near the end of the Gunflint trail celebrates a new Ojibwe exhibit, Minnesota’s job numbers are up big compared to the national average, and Bonnie Raitt opens the State Fair on what’s her ninth time playing.
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WITH HEADLINES FROM AROUND THE STATE, I’M XAN HOLSTON.
[MAYOR JACOB FREY: IF YOU’RE GOING TO DRIVE ON THE SIDEWALK... YOU’RE GOING TO INCITE A RIOT... AND YOU’RE GOING TO BE A PROBLEM FOR PEOPLE’S SAFETY... THEN YOU’RE GOING TO GET ARRESTED.]
POLICE ARRESTED FAR-RIGHT ACTIVIST JAKE LANG, SEVERAL OF HIS SUPPORTERS, AS WELL AS SEVERAL WHO SHOWED UP TO PROTEST AGAINST HIM AFTER A CHAOTIC WEEKEND RALLY IN MINNEAPOLIS...
--JAKE LANG ARREST --
FAR-RIGHT ACTIVIST JAKE LANG AND TEN OTHERS FACE POSSIBLE CRIMINAL CHARGES ... AFTER A WEEKEND CONFRONTATION OUTSIDE MINNEAPOLIS CITY HALL.
LANG’S SELF-DESCRIBED “FREEDOM OF SPEECH” RALLY DREW HUNDREDS OF COUNTERPROTESTERS SATURDAY.
THE INTERIM POLICE CHIEF FOR MINNEAPOLIS SAYS THE TWO VEHICLES CARRYING LANG’S GROUP DROVE ONTO A SIDEWALK ... TOWARD THE CROWD.
[INTERIM MINNEAPOLIS POLICE CHIEF BILL PETERSON: THAT WAS THE PRIMARY LAW THAT WAS BROKEN... TO START THE WHOLE THING OFF.]
LANG’S SUPPORTERS SAY THEY WEREN’T DRIVING TOWARDS THE CROWD.
POLICE SAY PEOPLE ON BOTH SIDES USED MACE ... AND THREW THINGS AT EACH OTHER AND OFFICERS … INJURING THREE OF THE OFFICERS.
POLICE ARRESTED SEVERAL ANTI-LANG PROTESTORS … INCLUDING ONE DRESSED AS SPIDERMAN WHO ATTACKED LANG.
OFFICERS CLEARED A PATH FOR LANG’S VEHICLES TO LEAVE.
COUNTER PROTESTORS ACCUSED MINNEAPOLIS POLICE OF PROTECTING LANG AND HIS CREW.
POLICE SAY THEY WERE DE-ESCALATING THE SITUATION AND ARRESTED LANG AND HIS GROUP AT A DIFFERENT LOCATION TO AVOID A RIOT.
OFFICERS ARRESTED ALL SEVEN OCCUPANTS WHO NOW FACE PROBABLE CAUSE OF RIOT CHARGES … LANG IS BEING HELD WITHOUT BAIL.
OFFICERS ARRESTED FOUR OTHERS NEAR CITY HALL.
--MOBILE HOME LAWSUIT --
A LONG-RUNNING LEGAL FIGHT OVER CONDITIONS AT A SOUTHWEST MINNESOTA MOBILE HOME PARK IS GETTING ANOTHER SHOT IN COURT …
THE STATE COURT OF APPEALS HAS ORDERED NEW TRIALS ON SEVERAL CLAIMS AGAINST THE OWNERS OF THE BROADMOOR VALLEY MOBILE HOME PARK IN MARSHALL.
THE STATE SUED THE PARK’S OWNERS FIVE YEARS AGO … ACCUSING THEM OF NEGLECTING ROADS AND OTHER PARK CONDITIONS … CHARGING ILLEGALLY HIGH LATE FEES … AND DECEPTIVE PRACTICES.
LAST YEAR … THE PARK OWNERS MOSTLY PREVAILED IN THE ORIGINAL CASE … AND A JUDGE LATER AWARDED THEM CLOSE TO ONE-MILLION DOLLARS IN ATTORNEY’S FEES.
NOW … THE COURT OF APPEALS SAYS LEGAL ERRORS AFFECTED THE CASE … ORDERED NEW TRIALS ON THREE OF THE CLAIMS … AND THREW OUT THE NEARLY MILLION-DOLLAR ATTORNEY-FEE AWARD.
THE CASE NOW GOES BACK TO LYON COUNTY DISTRICT COURT … WITH NO NEW DATES SET.
--STAPLES MEAT PROCESSING PLANT--
THE NEW EIGHT-MILLION-DOLLAR MEAT-PROCESSING FACILITY IN NORTH-CENTRAL MINNESOTA IS NOW GIVING FARMERS A CLOSER OPTION FOR THEIR LIVESTOCK.
THE MINNESOTA FARMERS UNION PLANT CELEBRATE THE GRAND OPENING OF THE NEW MEAT PROCESSING PLANT LAST WEEK.
SOME AREA LIVESTOCK FARMERS HAD TO HAUL ANIMALS FOR 200-MILES TO THE NEAREST PROCESSING PLANT IN CANNON FALLS.
FARMERS UNION CHAIR CAROL ANDERSON TELLS AMPERS AFFILIATE K-A-X-E THAT THE STAPLES PLANT CAN LOWER TRANSPORTATION AND FUEL COSTS ... WHILE ALSO REDUCING STRESS ON LIVESTOCK.
[CAROL ANDERSON / MINNESOTA FARMERS UNION: DIESEL COSTS FIVE DOLLARS A GALLON. THAT’S NOT CHEAP! THE FARMER THEN DOESN’T HAVE TO DO THAT. THERE’S NOT AS MUCH STRESS ON THE ANIMAL.]
THE PLANT CAN HANDLE UP TO 15 ANIMALS A DAY... AND COULD EVENTUALLY EMPLOY 15 PEOPLE.
OPERATORS SAY THEY PLAN TO CONTINUE BUILDING THEIR STEADY BASE OF LOCAL PRODUCERS... AND TO ADD A RETAIL MARKET.
--EMPLOYMENT NUMBERS--
IN OTHER BUSINESS NEWS … MINNESOTA JOBS GREW AT MORE THAN SEVEN TIMES THE NATIONAL RATE OVER THE PAST YEAR.
NEW STATE DEPARTMENT OF EMPLOYMENT AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT DATA SHOWS EMPLOYMENT GREW ONE-POINT-FIVE PERCENT LAST YEAR … ADDING MORE THAN 44-THOUSAND JOBS.
EDUCATION AND HEALTH SERVICES LED THE GAINS … FOLLOWED BY MANUFACTURING AND CONSTRUCTION.
--CHIK-WAUK GRAND OPENING OF EXHIBIT--
A NEW PERMANENT EXHIBIT WITH THOUSANDS OF YEARS OF ANISHINAABE HISTORY IS NOW OPEN AT CHIK-WAUK MUSEUM...
THE PROJECT WAS YEARS IN THE MAKING ...AND FUNDED WITH PUBLIC GRANTS AND OTHER FOUNDATION AND PRIVATE SUPPORT... IT OFFICIALLY OPENED SATURDAY...
“ZAGAANDAGAA-ANISHINAABEG” FILLS NINE AREAS OF THE MUSEUM WITH RARELY DISPLAYED ARTIFACTS... AN INTERACTIVE MAP... AN ANIMATED ACCOUNT OF CHIEF BLACKSTONE’S LAST WALK... AND A NEW MURAL BY ANISHINAABE ARTIST SAM ZIMMERMAN.
VISITORS CAN ALSO SCAN EACH DISPLAY... TO HEAR ITS STORY AND OJIBWE WORDS READ ALOUD.
--BONNIE RAITT OPENS GRANDSTAND--
AND FINALLY …
[NAT: SOMETHING TO TALK ABOUT]
THE MINNESOTA STATE FAIR IS GIVING MUSIC FANS SOMETHING TO TALK ABOUT RIGHT OUT OF … ER, IN … THE GATE.
BONNIE RAITT IS OPENING THIS YEAR’S GRANDSTAND CONCERT SERIES THURSDAY NIGHT.
IT’LL BE THE ROCK AND ROLL HALL-OF-FAMER’S NINTH-- --GRANDSTAND APPEARANCE … AND HER FIRST AT THE FAIR IN A DECADE.
AND … WHILE YOU’RE AT THE GREAT MINNESOTA GET TOGETHER … BE SURE TO STOP BY OUR AMPERS RADIO BOOTH IN THE EDUCATION BUILDING … WHERE A DIFFERENT AMPERS STATION WILL BE LIVE BROADCASTING EVERY DAY.
SAINT CLOUD’S K-V-S-C WILL BE ON THE AIR OPENING DAY.
AMPERS PRODUCES NORTH STAR STORIES ... AND REPRESENTS AND SUPPORTS 17 INDEPENDENT NON-COMMERCIAL COMMUNITY RADIO STATIONS THROUGHOUT MINNESOTA.
FOR NORTH STAR STORIES, I’M XAN HOLSTON.