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Mankato explores ordinance requiring federal agents to demask, wear IDs and body cams
The Mankato City Council is moving to demask ICE, Border Patrol and other law enforcement officers from outside the city, while requiring them to wear body cameras and something that identifies who they work for.
Art Hounds: A space this week for beauty and joy
Art Hounds recommend “Fíodóireacht Bheirte / A Weaving of Two,” “Fiber, Fragment and Form" and “Nordic Echoes.”
Indie bookstores provide readers with information, relief amid ICE surge 
Twin Cities bookstores are responding to heightened fear around ICE activity by transforming their shops into hubs for community support, political understanding and emotional refuge, as readers turn to books, children’s resources and author fundraisers to navigate a climate of anxiety and resistance.
 Legal Aid lawyers warn against school seclusion rooms for Minnesota’s youngest learners 
Mid-Minnesota Legal Aid attorneys on Wednesday released a report showing spartan conditions in school seclusion rooms across Minnesota as they urged lawmakers to continue the state’s ban on using those rooms for kids in kindergarten through third grade.
Indigenous group speaks out against immigration enforcement with prayer camp
A Dakota prayer camp has gone up across the highway from Whipple Federal Building to protest U.S. immigration enforcement. Organizers draw connections between current practices and historical injustices.
Review: At the Guthrie, 'Macbeth' becomes a timely study in power and consequences
Joe Dowling’s fast, dark, and stylistically charged “Macbeth” at the Guthrie turns Shakespeare’s shortest tragedy into a fierce meditation on ambition, violence and accountability, tracing how power corrodes its holders from the inside out.
Trump orders some U.S. coal plants to keep operating. Will Minnesotans foot part of the bill?
Electricity customers in 15 Midwest states, including Minnesota, might bear the costs of continuing to operate a Michigan coal plant. A week before it was scheduled to shut down, the U.S. Department of Energy ordered it to keep running, citing a possible electricity shortage.