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This week in Minnesota news, we saw several different struggles for control:

A Minnesota entrepreneur attempting to navigate the black beauty industry, where Korean businesses hold all the power. The family that ran the original cheese curd stand at the Minnesota State Fair fighting eviction as they plan their retirement. And the unusual move by Minneapolis Mayor Betsy Hodges to block the promotion of a police lieutenant, hours after her police chief announced it.


To learn more about these ongoing battles of business and politics, check out the stories below. If you're already feeling pretty well-informed, why not test your knowledge with our news quiz?

Hodges, Harteau public spat has some wondering: who's in charge?

 by her police chief has confused some in Minneapolis.

Many share Minneapolis NAACP president Jason Sole's reaction to how it all played out in public: "I would think some conversation would have taken place between the chief and her before the appointment. It seems reasonable to believe."

Roots of tension: race, hair, competition and black beauty stores

A Minnesota entrepreneur discovers that opening a beauty supply business means 

navigating a multibillion-dollar industry for black hair products

 that's run largely from Asia and doesn't cede power without a fight.

Fair's cheese curd pioneers fight eviction

The family that ran the original cheese curd stand at the Minnesota State Fair 

 even though the State Fair Board has given their space away to a bacon vendor.

Opioids killed 35 Minnesotans in April 2016. Only 1 was named Prince

The Minnesota music icon's death last year shocked the world. But opioids 

cost dozens of other Minnesotans their lives

 that same month. Their stories are equally compelling, and sad.

Minn. power plant that burns turkey poop faces closure

Benson Power, formerly known as Fibrominn, was a pioneer in biomass energy when it went online 10 years ago. Now it's 

Brave New Workshop's Dudley Riggs remembers when improv was considered 'shameful'

In his new memoir, "Flying Funny: My Life Without a Net," the improv theater pioneer 

 as a trapeze artist in the circus, to fighting naysayers who said improv theater was a slap in the face to great playwrights.

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Running your own business can be an arduous task, a few Minnesotans found that out first hand this week. Check out their stories, and then test your knowledge with our online quiz.

Wigs sit on mannequin heads inside Bella Beauty and Hair. 

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Photos of Josh Thompson with family members are displayed on boards.

News Quiz: Drama in beauty and cheese-curd industries, and other Minnesota stories

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