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Today's riddle: Is there anybody completely useless? 🤔 (Answer below!)
• The US Lakes That Went From Polluted To Clean (dredgewire.com) — Mitchell Lake in Eden Prairie is held up as a national example of how residents and local agencies can turn around a polluted lake, thanks to rain gardens, rain barrels, shoreline restoration, and upstream alum treatment that earned its removal from Minnesota's impaired-waters list. The article also profiles similar cleanups across the country, showing how targeted fixes revived lakes once written off as too dirty to save.
• Eden Prairie-made product advances to top 8 in 'Coolest Thing Made in Minnesota' contest (eplocalnews.org) — An Eden Prairie-made medical device, Solventum's Bair Hugger Warming System, has reached the top eight in the statewide "Coolest Thing Made in Minnesota" contest, with public voting open through Sept. 27. Another Eden Prairie product, Cambria quartz countertops, also competed earlier, giving local residents two reasons to follow the results and support hometown manufacturing online.
• Forum reveals widespread unease with AI technology race • Minnesota Reformer (minnesotareformer.com) — An AI-focused campaign-style forum held at New Prairie High School in Eden Prairie drew state leaders and experts to discuss job losses, deepfake nudification, data centers, and the need for tighter regulation. Speakers, including Attorney General Keith Ellison and DFL Senate candidate Krish Subrahmanian, emphasized human responsibility for AI harms and highlighted Minnesota's new privacy and anti-nudification laws as early guardrails.
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