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Welcome back to The Flyover, your daily digest of important, overlooked, and/or interesting Minnesota news stories. Maybe you’ve heard of Uline, the Wisconsin-based shipping and business supply company, or at least know the name. You’re less likely to be familiar with its owner, Richard Uihlein, a major conservative donor, and almost certainly unfamiliar with the PAC he funds, Restore Sanity.

Welcome to Weed Weviews, a verbal foible that’s become the very real name of this monthly column. Think of it like our Doin’ Beers series, but for weed. Alright, let's do this! Jessica Armbruster About: Is this company Minnesotan? How could you tell? This biz sells a variety of THC-loaded sodas and gummies, operating out of wellness studios Jeromeo in the North Loop and Carpe Diem in St. Paul. Where I got it: Found this for $6 at Marigold, but I have seen these guys at liquor stores around town too.

Stephanie Aanenson anticipates the question before I can even ask it. “You know, it’s funny, we weregoing to call it ‘Juicy Lucy,’” the director of brand and product management for Old Dutch explains.

This story was originally published by our Tulsa, Oklahoma-based friends at The Pickup. You can send them a tip, subscribe to them, or just learn more about their publication here. One of my aunts, Kate Minar, died this past March, a few weeks away from her 82nd birthday. She was a nun for over 50 years and lived at Assisi Heights in Rochester, Minnesota, which is the motherhouse for the Sisters of St. Francis.

Welcome back to The Flyover, your daily digest of important, overlooked, and/or interesting Minnesota news stories. On Tuesday, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld lower court rulings from Idaho and West Virginia banning trans women and girls from public-school athletics.

Plus a new Somali dessert spot is in the works and we say goodbye to a Richfield favorite in the Racket Restaurant Roundup. Pretty much all the music you can catch in the Twin Cities this week. In his book, 'The Cruelty of Nice Folks,' Ellis looks at how when it comes to race, Minneapolis is trapped in cycles of good intentions and failure to follow through. Owatonna native Jason Lennox is raising funds for addiction recovery the hard way this summer. Plus classroom smartphone bans, Craig vs.

There are too many new coffee shops I want to check out! Also I've heard great things about Lonely's Bar, and I'm super curious about Killen’s Irish Pub. What other food and drink news is there this month? Why, you know the drill—just read on to find out, ya goof! Café Milagro Check out the super cool website for Café Milagro, St. Paul’s new queer/Latina/woman-owned coffee shop.

Good news—I went outside today and the air was not an oppressive, dense blanket of humidity. Maybe this holiday weekend will be enjoyable?

In late 2020, during the Covid pandemic, just months after the uprising in the wake of George Floyd’s murder, Justin Ellis learned that his mother had cancer. Ellis had already published an essay in The Atlantic, “Minneapolis Had This Coming,” discussing how the persistence of state brutality against Black people, and the city’s ability to elude a true racial reckoning, were at the root of the Lake Street riots.

Walking is a radical act. It really shouldn’t be, but in this car-centric country, using your body to get from one place to another can be revolutionary. For Minnesotan Jason Lennox, walking is a movement—literally and figuratively. In support of his initiative, Recovery Road, Lennox been walking through rural areas in the U.S., where some of the communities most impacted by suicide and addiction are also the most underserved.