Daily Digest: Tuesday roundup
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Good morning and welcome to Tuesday. Here's the Digest.
1. The Minneapolis Park Board is considering supporting a referendum that would cost taxpayers tens of millions of dollars. (MPR News)
2. A St. Paul police officer is suspended for allegedly posting that Black Lives Matter protesters should be run over during a Martin Luther King Day demonstration. (Pioneer Press)
3. Republican presidential hopeful Marco Rubio is in Minneapolis this morning. In an answer to a reporter's question yesterday he said he hadn't been "fully briefed or apprised of" the Flint, Mich., water crisis and couldn't say much about it. (Time)
4. Some of the people speaking the loudest on behalf of Bernie Sanders during Sunday night's debate were Republican operatives. (Bloomberg Politics)
5. A new report says just 62 people own half the world's wealth. (New York Times)
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