Mulch ado about nothing

Your daily Minnesota news roundup starts … NOW. Data centers might be a hot topic right now, but they’ve been around — albeit on a smaller scale — for a while. In fact, they’ve been receiving sales tax exemptions from Minnesota for the last 10 years to the tune of more than a billion dollars. The facilities receiving the tax breaks operate in the 5- to 10-megawatt range, which is much smaller than newer hyperscale data centers and it’s not clear how these kinds of tax exemptions will scale. Last year, Abdifatah Yusuf was found guilty on six counts of fraud after his company, Promise Health, billed more than $7.2 million to Medicaid through more than 40,000 fraudulent claims between 2019 and 2022. Then Hennepin County Judge Sarah West threw out those guilty verdicts last November, but now the Minnesota Court of Appeals has reversed the reversal, a move referred to in legal jargon as “the ol’ switcheroo.” Housing is a massive issue all across Minnesota, and St. Peter is trying s