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For almost 3,000 years, we have been telling the story of a man trying to get home from his original odyssey. Odysseus leaves Troy after 10 years of war and spends another decade wandering through a world of gods, monsters, shipwrecks and mistakes. He travels to the edge of the known world and nearly beyond it, but the direction of the story never changes: He is trying to get back.

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On Aug. 4, spokespeople from both Ramsey County and the city of St. Paul sent out a news release announcing the closure of the Bruce Vento trail underneath East 7th Street, due to dangerous conditions in an historic bridge. But when fences were put up, it closed off the tunnel providing the only southern access to Swede Hollow Park, a major amenity for the East Side and the only car-free path in and out of downtown St. Paul.

After more than a year of contract negotiations and on the heels of a one-day strike in early July, Allina Health hospice nurses are set to strike for one week starting September 11 after union members said the hospital did not adequately address employee concerns about raises, staffing and caseloads. More than 60 Allina nurses in the SEIU Healthcare Minnesota and Iowa union voted unanimously to authorize the strike August 21.

Welcome to the Glean, MinnPost’s daily roundup of Minnesota news. Your daily Minnesota news roundup starts … NOW. A week after being released from custody in Texas, suspended ICE agent Christian Castro is facing federal charges for making false statements to law enforcement following the shooting of Venezuelan national Julio Cesar Sosa-Celis in Minneapolis.

When Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey presented his proposed budget for 2027, he returned again and again to a familiar theme: tough times call for tough decisions about which programs work for the city and which don’t.

WASHINGTON – Returning from an August break, the U.S. House scrapped plans to work through September, with GOP leaders deciding instead to stay in session for another week and not return until mid-November after the midterm elections. That means many GOP and President Donald Trump priorities — including more help for U.S. farmers battered by tariff policy, low commodity prices and increases in farm input costs by the closing of the Strait of Hormuz — will have to wait.

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The man who carried out a deadly shooting in a Minneapolis apartment building on September 2 had been investigated in June after displaying a handgun, but wasn’t charged, the county prosecutor said Thursday. Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty said Carlton Johnson had “displayed the weapon but it did not leave his waistband” in the June 25th encounter.

WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump’s derision of communities that oppose the construction of data centers as wanting to be “backwards and poor” has put some Minnesota Republicans in a tough spot. Data centers have rapidly become one of the defining issues in this year’s midterm elections, with polls showing both Republican and Democratic voters rejecting these facilities that Trump maintains are job-producing boons.

Last year, I moved into a rented studio apartment with a gas stove. I noticed the knobs on the stove were loose and just a small tap could release gas. One day, I came home from work, and my entire apartment smelled like gas. I rushed to tighten the loose gas stove knob, opened windows and turned on fans. I could feel the gas irritating my throat and lungs. Even though my background is in health education, I hadn’t thought a lot about the health impacts of my stove’s gas emissions until that moment.