Minnesota brings home a natty 🏒

Plus: Who is Royce White, Amy Klobuchar's potential challenger?? [Plus: Who is Royce White, Amy Klobuchar's potential challenger??] View this email as a [web page]( [Star Tribune]( [Essential Minnesota logo] ESSENTIAL MINNESOTA [Essential Minnesota logo] ESSENTIAL MINNESOTA Good morning, Minnesota! Like Eowyn slaying the Witch King of Angmar, Minnesota's women sail past curses meant for men 🏒 On to the news 📢 [Eder Campuzano] By Eder Campuzano TODAY’S TOP STORIES - [Gov. Tim Walz, Minnesota DFL chairman call on Sen. Nicole Mitchell to resign]( - [Minneapolis police used a secretive process for serious misconduct and denied it for years]( - [Preventable errors doubled in Minnesota hospitals in the past decade]( - [With Uber and Lyft remaining in Minneapolis, will other rideshare companies stay?]( - [Best Buy bets big on AI-enhanced laptops]( Get to know the man Minnesota Republicans want to run against Sen. Amy Klobuchar Glenn Stubbe/Star Tribune Minnesota Republicans are pinning their hopes on a political pugilist with multiple housing evictions over the last two years and a history of using campaign funds on personal shopping trips, strip clubs and hotels. Royce White, who briefly played for the Sacramento Kings in the 2010s, handily won the state GOP's endorsement to run for U.S. Senate during the party's convention earlier this month. But that doesn't mean he automatically gets to take on Sen. Amy Klobuchar. First, the 33-year-old White, who is Black, must win the Republican primary in August. While White says his past makes him relatable to voters — he defends antisemitic and other slurs he's made in the past by saying "the Black community is a very vulgar community culturally" — some Republicans say his overwhelming victory at the convention was the result of low turnout and a flawed nominating process. He won the nomination with two-thirds of the vote on the first ballot. Reporter Sydney Kashiwagi has the full story [here](.     GOING OUT - [Your guide — with maps! — to 22 of Minnesota's biggest Pride Month celebrations]( - [The summer's best outdoor stage events are at Minnesota pizza farms, wineries, parking lots and parks]( - [24 books you'll want to take to the cabin, the beach or your favorite chair this summer]( - [These are the best burgers in the Twin Cities]( PWHL Minnesota wins league's inaugural championship PWHL Minnesota steamrolled Boston Wednesday night to claim the inaugural Walter Cup, further solidifying the Land of 10,000 Lakes as the State of Hockey. Liz Schepers, Michela Cava and Kendall Coyne Schofield scored the team's three goals while goaltender Nicole Hensley posted the shut out. The team will host a rally and party at 5 p.m. Friday in St. Paul's Rice Park. Rachel Blount has the details from last night's game [here](. Barry Chin/Boston Globe more from the star tribune - ['This is embarrassing': Brooklyn Park City Council meeting adjourns for the night after tempers flare]( - [Yuen: Divided by dementia, these Twin Cities couples find connection through song]( - [A Minnesota egg operation loses 1.3 million chickens to bird flu, a record for a single site]( meet our new greater minnesota columnist Leila Navidi/Star Tribune Our newest columnist once felt such a longing for her home state that she gave up an offering of sorts to the forests at Itasca State Park more than 20 years ago. Karen Tolkkinen was here on vacation from her newspaper reporting job in Alabama at the time, and even though she doesn't believe in magic spells, Karen can draw a straight line from that fateful hike to her return to Minnesota, her engagement and her new role as the Star Tribune's inaugural greater Minnesota columnist. Read her debut column [here](and drop her a line: karen.tolkkinen@startribune.com. IN OTHER NEWS - [St. Paul Public Schools renovating century-old middle school in Summit Hill neighborhood]( - MinnPost - [Minnesota housing advocates chalk up modest wins at the Legislature this year]( - Sahan Journal - [New solar will help keep power on during scorching summer, report says]( - Minnesota Reformer     the minnesota goodbye What do you call a group of more than a dozen journalists riding single file through downtown Minneapolis en route to Minnehaha Falls? I don't know the answer myself, but just take a gander at this cadre of captivating writers, editors, designers and data crunchers as they prepared for a pleasant midweek outing to Sea Salt Eatery. I only swallowed two bugs on my way there! Not pictured: Minneapolis reporter Susan Du, the talent behind the lens. 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