Edina parents concerned about elementary
students eating lunch outside in November
Posted By: voxpopuli, 11/18/2021 8:53:38 PM
Pictures of Normandale Elementary School in Edina show students eating their lunch outside with hats, coats and mittens on. "Since the beginning of school, I learned that essentially if you brought a lunch from home, you were eating outside," said Carissa Palm, the mother of a third-grader at the school. (snip) Edina Public Schools says outdoor lunch is an element of its COVID-19 mitigation strategy and says it is optional. But 5 EYEWITNESS NEWS found it is not optional at all schools.
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Thousands expected to participate in Minnesota’s
Walk and Bike to School Day event Wednesday 15 replies
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Drivers will need to be more vigilant Wednesday on their morning commute, as the Minnesota Department of Transportation (MnDOT) celebrates Walk and Bike to School Day.
Thousands of students across the state are expected to participate. (snip) Families that may live too far to walk or bike the entire way can still participate.
Many districts are hosting drop off points within a half mile of schools, where volunteers will be ready to walk the rest of the way with those kids.
Minnesotans celebrated Native American culture at Midtown Global Market on Sunday afternoon to honor Indigenous Peoples’ Day.
It was first formally recognized last year when President Biden declared it a national holiday.
With every beat of the drum, Native American traditions were front and center celebrating Indigenous Peoples’ Day. (snip) Indigenous Food Lab members gave step by step instructions on how to make sunflower cookies
Two Minnesota teens received a settlement for $80,000 from the federal government because of their treatment at Texas Border Patrol facilities in 2019.
FIVE EYEWITNESS NEWS sat down with the sisters who say they’re still healing from the abuse and mistreatment. (snip) In June of 2019, the girls, who were 14 and 16 at the time, crossed the Mexico border seeking asylum, hoping to reach their mom in Minnesota. They were arrested by border patrol.
In the Texas border facility, the sisters say they did not have access to water or enough food. In some cases, they say they were forced to play games to be fed.
U.S. Bank Stadium is among the venues the NFL announced as voting sites on Saturday, one month before the 2022 midterm elections.
Through its NFL Votes campaign, the league is encouraging fans to vote in November. Visit THIS LINK for more information on the initiative, which began in 2020.
KSTP has reached out to stadium representatives for more information about the polling process. Check back for updates and stay with 5 EYEWITNESS NEWS for all of your 2022 election coverage.
See all NFL stadium polling sites in the tweet below.
Just over a month after the FDA approved an updated COVID-19 booster, only 6% of eligible Minnesotans have received the extra dose.
“Of course we always wish vaccine uptake was faster and people were clamoring to get vaccinated but I think we’re going to see the 6% rise,” said Jennifer Heath, a vaccine and preventable disease supervisor with the Minnesota Department of Health.
A United Nations agency warned on Monday of the risk of a monetary policy-induced global recession that would have especially serious consequences for developing countries and called for a new strategy. (snip) The report said that higher interest rates, including hikes by the U.S. Federal Reserve, would have a more severe impact on emerging economies
One of Apple Inc.’s most senior executives is leaving after he turned up in a viral video on TikTok making an off-color joke that he fondles “big-breasted women” for a living. (Snip) In the video, published on Sept. 5, Apple’s Tony Blevins was approached by TikTok and Instagram creator Daniel Mac as part of a series where he asks owners of expensive cars their occupations. The executive was stopped by Mac while parking a Mercedes-Benz SLR McLaren, an out-of-production sports car that fetches hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Marnette Gordon was doing laundry at home in Minneapolis one summer morning last year when a call came from her 36-year-old son.
She figured her son, Telly Blair, was checking in to see if she wanted a soda from a gas station down the street, where he often went for fuel and snacks.
"Mom, I've been shot," he said. "Call the police!" (snip) KG Wilson, a longtime resident of the Twin Cities, said police withdrew from violent neighborhoods in the aftermath of Floyd's killing — a common sentiment among locals.
"The criminals were celebrating. They were getting rich," he said. "They were selling drugs openly."
President Joe Biden’s top environment official visited what is widely considered the birthplace of the environmental justice movement Saturday to unveil a national office that will distribute $3 billion in block grants to underserved communities burdened by pollution. (snip) merge three existing EPA programs to oversee a portion of Democrats’ $60 billion investment in environmental justice initiatives created by the Inflation Reduction Act
There were voices of protest in downtown Minneapolis Saturday.
The concern — about what’s happening in a country halfway around the world.
“Today I’m here because I see all these innocent people getting killed in Iran,” declared Sahva Neymand, who moved from there to Minnesota six years ago. “This is the least I can do for them, to let the whole world know what’s going on.”
Dozens of people from the metro’s Iranian-American community — some here for decades, others arriving just months ago — took to the streets,
A year and a half after the United States Department of Justice launched an investigation into the Minneapolis Police Department, federal officials in Washington are offering few clues about what that review will ultimately determine.
“We have not made any findings,” said Ethan Trinh, an investigator in the DOJ’s special litigation section.
Some of downtown Minneapolis’s busiest thoroughfares — including sections of Hennepin Avenue and First Avenue — were shut down to make them more pedestrian friendly.
All part of a pilot project to draw people into the warehouse district, near Target Center.
“We’re running this project for them, the people who are already here,” says Ben Shardlow, Urban Director with the Minneapolis Downtown Improvement District. “We’re starting with engaging with the people who are here and giving them a good experience, and hoping to grow this project in the future.”
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Researchers with Boston University have developed a strain of COVID-19 that killed 80 percent of mice infected with it, according to a preprint study released last week, prompting concern and condemnation.
The team of researchers extracted the Omicron variant’s spike protein, which they noted has “an unusually large number of mutations.” The researchers then attached Omicron’s spike protein, which is a structure that allows a virus to bind and invade human cells, to the original Wuhan COVID-19 variant that reportedly emerged in late 2019. They dubbed it “Omicron S.”
Ex-POTUS Smackdown: George W. Bush Pops
Up to Campaign for Anti-Trump Candidate
Joe O’Dea 31 replies
Up to Campaign for Anti-Trump Candidate
Joe O’Dea 31 replies
Former President George W. Bush is taking time away from his retirement to campaign for Senate candidate Joe O’Dea of Colorado — who has bucked his party by saying he would not support former President Donald Trump as the next GOP nominee. According to Bridget Bowman of NBC News, the last Republican president to win the popular vote at least once will come back out of retirement to campaign for O’Dea:
Former FBI agent Peter Strzok said Monday on MSNBC’s “Deadline” that he believed the riot at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021 was a far greater threat to American democracy than the 9/11 terror attack.
Anchor Nicolle Wallace said, “I worked in the administration in which he served as FBI director. What he sort of gave birth to in the lexicon was the FBI would never again, first of all fail to sync up with a CIA, and all sorts of artificial and real walls were torn down and they would never again fail to connect the dots. I’ve not heard one utterance of connecting the dots from Christopher Wray
Boston University researchers claim to
have developed new, more lethal COVID
strain in lab 25 replies
have developed new, more lethal COVID
strain in lab 25 replies
Researchers at Boston University say they have developed a new COVID strain that has an 80% kill rate following a series of similar experiments first thought to have started the global pandemic that began in China.
The variant, a combination of Omicron and the original virus in Wuhan, killed 80% of the mice infected with it, the university said. When mice were only exposed to Omicron, they experienced mild symptoms.
The research was conducted by a team of scientists from Florida and Boston at the school's National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratories. They extracted the spike protein from Omicron and attached it with the strain first detected at the onset
Colorado Republican Senate nominee says
he would 'actively campaign' against Trump
in 2024 25 replies
he would 'actively campaign' against Trump
in 2024 25 replies
Colorado GOP Senate nominee Joe O'Dea says he will campaign against former President Donald Trump if he were to run for president in 2024.
“I don’t think Donald Trump should run again,” O’Dea said in an interview Sunday on CNN’s "State of the Union." “I’m going to actively campaign against Donald Trump and make sure that we’ve got four or five really great Republicans right now.”
Among those mentioned as potential 2024 GOP presidential candidates are former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis.
Shocking video posted online lays bare just how crime-ridden downtown Minneapolis has become, with a police horse harassed and sworn at, people brawling, and illegal street races happening near where rowdy women twerked on top of cars. The scene outside The Gay 90s bar on Saturday night seemed chaotic in the video posted online by Rebecca Brannon, as girls were filmed twerking on top of cars and yelling at a police horse as an officer tried to break up a fight involving the women. Officers in the video told the girls to 'get out, keep moving' after the fight broke
The Alaska Department of Fish and Game has officially canceled the winter snow crab season, according to CBS News.
What we know:
It is the first time in history this has ever been done, however, it is now necessary due to the crabs’ rapidly declining numbers in the Bering Sea. According to state officials, it is estimated that one billion crabs have vanished in two years. This constitutes a 90% population loss.
The nation’s seafood industry will no doubt feel the effects as seafood lovers will not be able to find the crustaceans in restaurants and markets. And scientists are concerned about how the sudden decrease in population will affect the Arctic ecosystem.
Ulta may be regretting whatever marketing “genius” came up with this idea. In a recent post on Twitter, Ulta highlighted a podcast with two grown men in makeup and wigs chatting about what it’s like to be a “girl.” The makeup giant’s target audience is obviously women. It’s probably a safe bet that over 90% of Ulta’s customers are women. The choice to put men in drag in the marketing material for a company geared toward women is backfiring big time.
#Womanface and #BoycottUlta are trending on Twitter, and the ratio of angry women telling Ulta they’re taking their business elsewhere is off the charts. It got so bad that Ulta
First lady Jill Biden was an honorary captain for the Philadelphia Eagles on Sunday as the team looked to stay undefeated against NFC East rival Dallas Cowboys in Week 6.
Like several Eagles players and Santa Claus before her, fans of the only unbeaten team left in NFL reportedly booed Biden when she stepped onto Lincoln Financial Field.
Several people in attendance for the Eagles game tweeted about the apparent loud boos she received.
We can find some other visuals.
Jill Biden was in Philadephia on Sunday and she went to the Eagles game with Dallas at Lincoln Financial Field.
Biden was designated the honorary captain for the night and was standing at midfield during the coin toss when they flashed her picture on the big screen.(Tweet) That’s when the booing erupted and let her have it. It must have been pretty substantial from what the people were saying. (Tweets) That had to be especially cutting since she’s an Eagles fan.
But in all honesty, Americans are just fed up at this point with the mess that she and her husband have made of the country and they just vented.
Huge increase in NYC rat sightings
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NEW YORK - If you live in New York City, it probably comes as no surprise to hear that rats are becoming increasingly visible all across the Big Apple. Sightings of the rodents are up a stunning 70% from this time two years ago, with New Yorkers calling in some 21,557 rat sightings to the city's 3-1-1 service request line between January 1 and September 30. That's up from 18,601 rat calls during the same period last year. In recent months, the city has tried to control its vermin problem with a number of attempted solutions, including putting a limit on
Director Christopher Wray’s use of FBI
jet amounts to ‘embezzlement,’ current,
ex-agents allege 20 replies
jet amounts to ‘embezzlement,’ current,
ex-agents allege 20 replies
Former and current FBI agents are fuming about Director Christopher Wray’s use of the FBI’s private jet, which originally was intended by Congress only to be used for counterterrorism purposes.
A lot of other Americans would like to know why Wray cut short a Senate oversight hearing on Aug. 4 to fly in the FBI jet to his family holiday destination in the Adirondacks, after telling Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) that he had “business” to attend to.
Republican members of Congress sent a formal letter to Wray on Aug. 15 asking whether the flight was in “compliance with the applicable federal regulations and requirements”
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Edina is the wealthiest suburb in Minnesota.. looks like their publik skoolz and their administrators need a 500 million dollar lawsuit..