Mark Zdechlik

1 week ago | businessnorth.com | Mark Zdechlik

Copper wire theft is much more than a nuisance for some municipal public works departments. It is, they say, threatening public safety and cutting into city budgets. “We’re not going to tolerate this,” Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey said at a recently held news conference to announce his city was tapping $1 million in contingency funds to help address a backlog of several hundred streetlamps in need of repair due to copper theft. “They are stealing copper wire and turning off the streetlights.

1 week ago | mprnews.org | Mark Zdechlik

Nearly a week after the shootings that killed House DFL leader Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark, clergy from several religions gathered at the State Capitol Friday to urge an end to political violence“Our Lord, we ask you to restore calm and peace and tranquility to our beloved state, to our beloved country, and into all of our hearts,” offered Imam Asad Zaman of the Muslim American Society of Minnesota.

1 week ago | mprnews.org | Mark Zdechlik

Copper wire theft is much more than a nuisance for some municipal public works departments. It is, they say, threatening public safety and cutting into city budgets. “We’re not going to tolerate this,” Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey said at a recently held news conference to announce his city was tapping one million dollars in contingency funds to help address a backlog of several hundred streetlamps in need of repair due to copper theft.

2 weeks ago | mprnews.org | Mark Zdechlik

William Eickholt, a 74-year-old Denmark Township resident known as “Ike,” was found dead in February alongside a roadway in Hastings. The Hennepin County Medical Examiner's Office said someone shot Eickholt in the head. Eickholt was known to wear women’s clothing, and friends have expressed concern that he was vulnerable and may have been targeted because of his gender expression.

2 weeks ago | mprnews.org | Mark Zdechlik

William Eickholt, a 74-year-old Denmark Township resident known as “Ike” was found dead in February alongside a roadway in Hastings. The Hennepin County Medical Examiner's Office said someone shot Eickholt in the head. Some think it was because of the way he dressed. “He just liked to wear women's clothing,” said Mitch Carmody, a local resident who knew Ike and organized the memorial. "We all thought we knew him separately,” he added.