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Minneapolis releases new analysis on Uber, Lyft driver pay estimates
The analysis by the city’s Policy and Research Division is mostly in line with previous state and city studies of rideshare drivers’ wages, and doesn’t appear to shift the debate at the Minneapolis City Council over the new rideshare ordinance in either direction.   
Minnesota lawmakers return from break to uncertainty after DFL lawmaker’s arrest
Sen. Nicole Mitchell’s legal troubles consumed the Capitol on the first day back from a short recess. The situation has put the power dynamic and policy prospects in question for the last four weeks of the legislative session.
Burglary charge filed against DFL state Sen. Mitchell over alleged plan to get late father’s items
The charges allege Mitchell broke into the home of her stepmother amid an ongoing dispute over possessions that belonged to the senator’s late father, as well as his ashes.