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Occupy Minneapolis began as a protest encampment at Hennepin County Government Center plaza on October 7, 2011, renaming the site "The People's Plaza". It was eventually cleared out by law enforcement agencies after members of the Hennepin County Board chose to create new rules restricting the use of the public plaza. [1]
Hennepin County (/ ˈ h ɛ n ə p ɪ n / HEN-ə-pin) is a county in the U.S. state of Minnesota.Its county seat is Minneapolis, [2] the state's most populous city. [3] The county is named for the 17th-century explorer Louis Hennepin. [4]
Bloomington is a city in Hennepin County, Minnesota, United States.It is located on the north bank of the Minnesota River above its confluence with the Mississippi River, 10 miles (16 km) south of downtown Minneapolis and just south of the Interstate 494/694 Beltway.
Former Hennepin County Sheriff Dave Hutchinson paid for the vehicle and guardrail he destroyed while driving drunk with money he got from a workers' compensation settlement with the county. The ...
The sun will soon have a new job at the Hennepin County workhouse. Later this year, two solar panel arrays costing $2.4 million will be installed at the men's Adult Corrections Facility — a ...
The Hennepin Energy Recovery Center with Target Field in the background and light rail tracks in the foreground. The Hennepin Energy Recovery Center also called HERC is a waste-to-energy plant in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Following changes to state law in 1980 that prioritized incinerating garbage over directly filling landfills, HERC was ...
Hennepin County. Father Louis Hennepin was the first European explorer to visit and name Saint Anthony Falls, the tallest waterfall on the Mississippi River, in 1680.While the falls were familiar to the Ojibwe and Sioux Indians who lived in the area, Father Hennepin spread word of the falls when he returned to France in 1683.
Edina (locally / iː ˈ d aɪ n ə / ⓘ ee-DY-nə, / ɪ ˈ d aɪ n ə / ih-DY-nə) [8] is a city in Hennepin County, Minnesota, United States and a first-ring suburb of Minneapolis.The population was 53,494 at the 2020 census, [3] making it the 18th most populous city in Minnesota.