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American Crystal Sugar fined by MPCA for fecal sample violations
SAINT PAUL, Minn. – Moorhead-based American Crystal Sugar Company has been fined $16,000 by the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency. The agency says the Moorhead plant failed to collect fecal samples twice and failed to stop discharging wastewater when fecal sample results showed they exceeded their limit during five days in 2024. The MPCA says the East Grand Forks plant exceeded their fecal sample limit during two days in 2024. The results were found during a MPCA investigation.
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Worry over ICE raids weighs on small immigrant-owned businesses
Some Minnesota immigrant-owned businesses say sales are down under the new Trump administration. Manny Gonzalez has owned Manny's Tortas in Minneapolis for 25 years now. "When I started my business, it was a boom with the Latino communities because we didn't have a Latino market in Minneapolis [in 1999]," Gonzalez said. "It has impacted my business, probably 25%, and you can tell. Sunday, today, St. Patrick's Day, look around, there's nobody here." Gonzalez says many fear ICE raids and deportation, which are happening in Minnesota . "[Latinos] are afraid to come out, they're afraid to come and buy stuff,...