The Minnesota Public Utilities Commission (PUC) is set to decide in October whether they will approve the $6.2 billion sale of Duluth-based Allete, parent company of Minnesota Power, to an ownership group led by BlackRock. But disagreements surrounding the sale abound, the Minnesota Star Tribune reports, within left-leaning advocacy groups. “Some hope to guarantee money for the infrastructure costs of a carbon-free grid. Others want to block private equity, for them a symbol of capitalism run amok, from getting control of a power company.”

A property owner in Minneapolis has permitted an unhoused encampment to form on his vacant lot along East Lake Street. An estimated 45 people have set up tents and makeshift shelters there. “[Hamoudi] Sabri does not believe public government and agencie

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