
Kyeland Jackson
Reporter at The Minnesota Star Tribune
Reporter @StarTribune | Formerly @TPT & @Report4America | @UofL Grad | Hip-hop lover | Retweets ≠ endorsements | Thoughts and opinions = mine
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2 weeks ago |
startribune.com | Kyeland Jackson
People from as far as California, Georgia and Maryland packed a Minneapolis lawn Saturday to watch a man sharpen a giant pencil. It was the fourth annual Sharpening, a free event in the yard of a historic Lake of the Isles house that has grown into a popular community spectacle. At least two thousand people gathered at the 20-foot No. 2 pencil, fashioned from the remains of an ancient bur oak that blew down in 2017.
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3 weeks ago |
mankatofreepress.com | Kyeland Jackson
More than two dozen federal and local law enforcement agents converged Tuesday on a south Minneapolis Mexican restaurant, causing a brief commotion between bystanders and officers and prompting local officials to post on social media that it was not an immigration raid. “While we are still gathering details, this incident was related to a criminal search warrant for drugs and money laundering and was not related to immigration enforcement.
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3 weeks ago |
startribune.com | Kyeland Jackson
More than two dozen law enforcement agents - including ICE, FBI, police and ATF agents - have converged on a south Minneapolis Mexican restaurant. Minneapolis Council Member Jason Chavez said he ran over to Lake Street and Bloomington Avenue South on Tuesday morning after receiving a video of a "militarized operation" happening there. "I'm here right now, and we're still trying to get all the information that we can," said Chavez. He said there's a Department of Homeland Security truck.
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3 weeks ago |
startribune.com | Kyeland Jackson
By Kyeland Jackson St. Paul city officials have condemned an apartment building after a fire displaced more than a dozen people living only blocks from the State Capitol. Police and firefighters rushed Saturday morning to a three-story apartment building in the 500 block of Rice Street, where they saw flames shoot out of windows on the second floor.
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3 weeks ago |
startribune.com | Kyeland Jackson
By Kyeland Jackson The MSHSL policy Months of debate and tens of thousands of emails led to the MSHSL's decision in 2015 to open girls' sports to transgender student athletes. Eighteen of the 20 board members approved the new policy, making Minnesota the 33rd state to adopt a formal transgender student policy.
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RT @tptAlmanac: Tonight on Almanac at 7 p.m.: - Reporter @KyelandJ, @StarTribune, on what we know about the controversial federal raid on…

RT @LauraMcCallumB: Video at the state Cap from Kyeland, where thousands are gathered: https://t.co/DmJ0sq1ZjZ

RT @LauraMcCallumB: Reporters @jhollingsworths, @KyelandJ and Sean Baker, along with photog @rtsongphoto are covering HandsOff! rallies aro…