General Mills offering short-term price cuts on products

Brooks Johnson at the Star Tribune is reporting Golden Valley-based General Mills is forgoing profit growth to boost promotions and other short-term price cuts over the next six months in an effort to revive customer loyalty for the long haul.

Nicole Ki at MPR News talks with Elizer Darris, who, thanks to a new Minnesota law restoring voting rights for people on parole and probation that he lobbied for, was able to vote in his first presidential election. And on Tuesday, Darris cast a vote as a Minnesota elector in the Electoral College.

Andrew Hazzard at Sahan Journal is reporting a threat forced the Abubakar As-Saddique Islamic Center in south Minneapolis mosque to cancel most programming this past weekend, and has leaders working to enhance security measures.

Nathan O’Neal at FOX 9 reports Ramsey County is ending its controversial policy of billing people who call the crisis hotline in search of life-saving help from the mobile crisis response team.

Elliot Hughes and Louis Krauss at the Star Tribune report a Satanic holiday display was briefly removed, then returned to Minnesota State Capitol.

David Schuman at WCCO News was on hand when, thanks to the Wheels for Women program at the Newgate School in Minneapolis, a dozen single mothers got the keys to a free car.

Adam Uren at Bring Me the News reports the St. Paul Port Authority has purchased the former Kmart site at I-35E and Maryland Avenue East.

Also from Bring Me the News, Dustin Nelson has the line-up for next year’s Blue Ox Music Festival, which includes Orville Peck, Greensky Bluegrass and Pert Near Sandstone, among others.

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