There’s a new push to bring high tech businesses and jobs to north Minneapolis. However, 35 years ago a pioneering Black business owner named Beck Horton and his now defunct company Microtron did just that.
Minnesota Senate President Bobby Joe Champion’s executive assistant moonlights for a nonprofit foundation that has been paid about $3 million by a handful of state agencies in the past three years.
Housing advocates want HUD to push the state’s planning board to open up housing options in the region’s more affluent suburbs and, in doing so, help tackle a growing segregation problem.