Daily Digest: Compensation and money generated
Good morning. It's Wednesday, which means we're almost half way through the work week. Let's take a look at the Digest.
1. Three Minnesota men who served time in prison and then were released when new evidence brought their convictions into doubt are due a total of $1.8 million in compensation. A legislative panel voted unanimously Tuesday night to make state payments to Koua Fong Lee, Roger Lee Olsen and Michael Hansen, who are the first people eligible for the payments under a new system. The House and Senate are expected to agree as well. (MPR News)
2. A research firm hired by Minnesota's Super Bowl host committee estimates that people will spend more than $400 million at the 2018 Super Bowl in Minneapolis and generate economic activity of $338 million. But that estimate may be too high for a number of reasons. (Star Tribune)
3. There was no vote taken or even planned, but a hearing on a bill that would restrict public restroom use based on a person's biological sex drew a big crowd Tuesday at the Capitol. It was an emotional debate from people with strong opinions on both sides. (MPR News)
4. Former Minneapolis Mayor R. T. Rybak and Sen. Scott Dibble, DFL-Minneapolis, endorsed Illhan Omar in the primary for the Minneapolis District 60B seat currently held by Phyllis Kahn. Kahn, Omar and Mohamud Noor have all said they will run in the primary after no one could get enough support to win the DFL endorsement last weekend. Kahn fired back on at Rybak on Twitter, saying, ""While Rybak was building a stadium for a crooked billionaire, I was killing anti-union right to work." (Star Tribune)
5. "Count me out," said House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-WI., referring to the race for the Republican presidential nomination. Ryan made a Shermanesque statement saying he will not accept the nomination and said if no one wins on the first ballot at the GOP convention in Cleveland someone who ran in the primaries should be the candidate. (New York Times)
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