🌱 Luxury Hotel Opens + Nurses Rally + Calls Continue For Gun Control

Good morning, Minneapolis! Let's get to today's top stories.

First, today's weather: Breezy in the afternoon. High: 76 Low: 51.

Here are the top 5 stories today in Minneapolis:

1. Twin Cities nurses rallied in Minneapolis Wednesday in pursuit of new contracts. Members of the Minnesota Nurses Association began picketing at Abbott Northwestern Hospital asking employers to “put patients ahead of profits.” Their current contracts expire June 30. (Patch)

2. Two people are suing the City of Minneapolis and former police officer Derek Chauvin, claiming they were “victims of excessive force and racial discrimination at the hands of Chauvin in 2017.” Several other officers are also named in the suits. (BTMN)

3. Five more Minnesotans died of COVID-19 over the holiday weekend, the state health department reports. More than 480 people are currently hospitalized with the virus across the state. (BMTN)

4. Minnesota politicians are continuing the call for gun control laws a week after 19 children were shot and killed at a Texas elementary school. Gov. Tim Walz called for the adoption of red flag laws while Sen. Amy Klobuchar wrote, “Only action will begin to solve this deadly crisis." (Patch)

5. A new Four Seasons hotel opened Wednesday in Minneapolis. The 36-story luxury building is located at 245 Hennepin Ave. in the North Loop neighborhood and is considered the city’s only five-star hotel. (KARE11)

Today in Minneapolis:

• Minneapolis Central Library offers job search assistance. (2 p.m.)
• Homeward Bound performs “upper Midwestern roots music” at Minnehaha Park. (7 p.m.)
• See “A Raisin in the Sun” before its run ends at Guthrie Theater. (7:30 p.m.)
• The Linden HIlls Chamber Orchestra performs at the Lake Harriet Bandshell. (7:30 p.m.)
• Head to Chanhassen for the annual Prince Celebration at Paisley Park. (All weekend)

From my notebook:

• Registration is open for Minneapolis Adult Education’s free citizenship classes. (MPS)
• Minneapolis is the first large city in the U.S. to publicly broadcast the Islamic call to prayer from its 24 mosques. (CBS)
• “The most anticipated restaurant in the Twin Cities” opened Wednesday in Minneapolis inside the new Four Seasons. (Paid source: Star Tribune)

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— Georgi Presecky

About me: Georgi is a Chicago-based newsletter writer and partner content curator. She spent five years on the entertainment beat for FF2 Media covering film festivals across the U.S. Her feature articles have been recognized with awards from the Illinois Women's Press Association and National Federation of Press Women. As editor-in-chief of the Lewis University newspaper, she and her staff earned honors from the Associated Collegiate Press and American Scholastic Press Associations. She began working for Patch in 2019.

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