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<br />State Courtof Appealsupholdsapprovalof Line 3pipelinePAGE 4AEastMetroLacrosse Players of the Ye ar,1B during the 2008 recession and hadless access to savings and lendingtools to get them through thetough times, according to thereport. Rising home prices thathavedoubled costs in some neigh-borhoods over the past decadehaveall but eliminated manystarter homes. Home va lues inhistorically Black neighborhoodsrun lower,on average, than inwhite neighborhoods, makingHOMEOWNERSHIP, 4Aareas,” said Yo nah Freemark, aresearcher with the Urban Insti-tute, a Wa shington, D.C.-basedsocial and economic policyresearch organization. Amongnew Black residents, “the majori-ty ended up renting,” Freemarksaid.Black Minnesotans were hit dis-proportionately hard by job lossesand adjustable rate mortgagesdentswasfollowedbya netincrease of only 2,000 Black-ow ned residences. Homeowner-ship in the Black community actu-ally fell by 10 percentage points aspopulation grew,while remainingrelativelystableforwhiteowners.“Unfortunately,the Twin Citiessuffers from the largest racialhomeownership gap in the nationcompared to other major metroByFrederick Melofmelo@pioneerpress.comHennepin and Ramsey countiesadded some 30,000 Black house-holds between the years 2000 and2018, but according to a recentstudy few of those householdsbecame homeowners or remainedhomeownersfor long.In fact, the influx of Black resi-Blackhomeownership fa llingStudy:Riseininvestor-ownedrentalhomeshelpsaccount fordrop By Mary Divinemdivine@pioneerpress.comDougKelley has been workingsince 2008 to help organizations andindividualswho lost billions in TwinCities businessman To m Petters’Ponzi scheme, the biggest financialcrime in Minnesota history.The bankruptcy trustee’s searchto collect assets linked to Petters’$1.925 billion scheme spanned 26countries, including the CaymanIslands, Luxembourg, Germany,Sw itzerland, the Ne therlands andthe British Virgin Islands.Now,after 13 years, he says hiswork is almost done.As of last week, $722 million hasbeen recovered and returned to vic-tims and creditors, according to amotion filed last week in U.S. Dis-trict Court in Minneapolis toapprovefinal fees and costs andclose the receive rship.Just four or five cases remain,including one filed against the Bankof Montreal in Canada,which couldbring in an additional “significantamount,”Ke lley said Monday.“We can see the light at the end ofthetunnel here,”Ke lley said. “It hasbeen a long and arduous processPETTERS' MONEY, 12A$722MinPetters’schemereturnedAttorneyshaveworkedsince2008onrecoveringmoneylosttoPonzischemeFormerTwin CitiesbusinessmanTomPetterswas sentencedto50years in prison in2008for his $1.925BPonzi scheme.By Dave Orrick and Bill SalisburyPioneerPressLawmakers huddled in hushed corners.Lobbyists trolled the halls, looking for law-makers to buttonhole.And above it all, demonstrators raised rau-cous chants and held signs for multiplecauses in the Rotunda.And Democrats and Republicans stillhaven’t reached agreement.
<br />Ahhh, back to normal at the Minnesota
<br />Capitol.
<br />On Monday,lawmakers returned to St.Paul to convene yet another session of theLegislature — the ninth since the coronavi-rus pandemic began — but the first wherethe entire cast was here in person, from thelawmakers to the protesters.“We’re back,” House Speaker MelissaHortman, DFL-Brooklyn Park, said to aroomful of maskless media as she stepped tothe microphone inside the Capitol Press
<br />Room — the first in-person event there since
<br />March 2020.
<br />“It’s a little different — I’m not used to it,”
<br />Lawmakers—andprotesters—arrive to setstatebudgetSpecialsoundsofasessionDAVE ORRICK / PIONEER PRESSDemonstrators chant and hold signs inside the Rotunda of the Minnesota State Capitol on Monday,the first day the Legislature convened fora special session. It was also the first day that lawmakers were in session since the Capitol reopened to the public earlier this month.
<br />Associated Press
<br />A woman wa s killed and three
<br />other people were injured when a
<br />vehicle drove into demonstrators
<br />during a protest in the Minneapolis
<br />neighborhood where a Black man
<br />was fatally shot this month during
<br />his attempted arrest by members
<br />of a federal task force,police said
<br />Monday.
<br />The crash happened about 11:40
<br />p.m. Sunday in Minneapolis’
<br />Up town neighborhood.Wi tnesses
<br />said the driver of an SUV struck a
<br />parked car,tossing it into the
<br />crowd of demonstrators.Police
<br />spokesman Jo hn Elder did not con-
<br />firm that account and said authori-
<br />ties are still investigating.
<br />Police said protesters pulled the
<br />driver from his vehicle and wit-
<br />PROTEST CRASH, 12A
<br />Minneapolispolice saySUV droveintoprotestersMotherof2killed,threeothersinjuredinUptowncrash
<br />By Fr ederick Melo
<br />fmelo@pioneerpress.com
<br />The St.Paul City Council is
<br />enlisting an old friend in the fight
<br />against damage wreaked by the
<br />emerald ash borer: the St.Paul
<br />Port Au thority.
<br />Fo r years the exotic beetle has
<br />laid its hungry larva e in ash trees
<br />across the city canopy, damaging
<br />them faster than the city can ke ep
<br />up. City foresters have been able
<br />to remove dead or dying trees
<br />from public boulevards, but funds
<br />and manpower have limited their
<br />ability to replace the remaining
<br />tree stumps with new plantings.
<br />The wo rk has fully consumed
<br />the time and resources of the for-
<br />estry department, undermining
<br />its ability to tackle unrelated proj-
<br />ects, including everyday tree-
<br />trimming in the public right-of-
<br />way.
<br />PUBLIC BOULEVA RD ASH
<br />TREES TO BE REMOVED,
<br />REPLANTED BY END OF 2026
<br />Complaints of fallen tree limbs
<br />are mounting, but relief may be in
<br />sight.
<br />The city plans to partner with
<br />the St.Paul Port Au thority,which
<br />has already signaled its willing-
<br />ness to issue $18 million in gener-
<br />al obligation bonds specifically
<br />and solely for the emerald ash
<br />borer work, including the remova l
<br />and replacement of some 13,000
<br />boulevard trees.That means an
<br />additional 2,000 trees will be
<br />planted annually.
<br />“All public bouleva rd ash trees
<br />will be removed,stumped and
<br />replanted by the end of 2026,” said
<br />Parks and Recreation Director
<br />Mike Hahm, addressing the city
<br />ASH BORER FIGHT, 12A
<br />Po rtAuthorityadding$18Mtoemeraldashborerfight
<br />St.Pa ulplansto
<br />removeallpublic
<br />boulevardashtrees
<br />by endof2026
<br />chuckled Senate Majority Leader PaulGazelka, R-East Gull Lake, as he wa ited for agaggle of reporters to jockey into positionfor a briefing on the floor of the Senate assenators frolicked in the aisles.He added later: “Does it make any differ-ence to have everyone back? It works much,much better.There are so many things thatwedo, pieces of information we get betweenmeetings, that we bring together to solve the
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