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Handing out cookies
Tammie Warn, a server at Bonnie's Cafe, hands out cookies to drivers on Vandalia St. near Bonnie's Cafe in St. Paul, Minn. Wednesday, May 11, 2011. Warn has been giving cookies away for a few weeks in an attempt to attract business to Bonnie's Cafe during the Central Corridor construction on University Avenue.
MPR Photo/Jeffrey Thompson

Vikings stadium plans dominated this week's news, but we also reported on Lake Pepin's health and how businesses are coping with light rail construction.

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Fishing protest
Jim Anderson, organizer of The Great Oyate Fish-In, and Chris Mato Nunpa, activist with the Seven Fires Summit admire one of the fish caught in Cedar Lake in Minneapolis, Minnesota on Friday, May 13, 2011. The group of American Indian activists exercised their right to fish according to Article 3 of the Treaty of 1805.
MPR Photo/Caroline Yang
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Handing out cookies
Tammie Warn, a server at Bonnie's Cafe, hands out cookies to drivers on Vandalia St. near Bonnie's Cafe in St. Paul, Minn. Wednesday, May 11, 2011. Warn has been giving cookies away for a few weeks in an attempt to attract business to Bonnie's Cafe during the Central Corridor construction on University Avenue.
MPR Photo/Jeffrey Thompson
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University Avenue construction
Construction crews work on the Central Corridor project on University Avenue near Vandalia Street in St. Paul, Minn., on May 10, 2011. This week reporters Dan Olson and Laura Yuen talked to business owners in St. Paul's Lowertown area and along University Avenue about the financial effects of the construction.
MPR Photo/Nikki Tundel