Minneapolis City Council members are speaking up in support of radical changes in their city’s police department. Nine of the council’s 12 members appeared at a rally in a city park Sunday afternoon and vowed to end policing as the city currently knows it. Council Member Jeremiah Ellison promised that the council would “dismantle” the department. Wow, this is gonna be interesting to see. You... 

Crystal Castrogiovanni owns Phoenix Pipelines, a business that specializes in the relocation and installation of utilities. Though she has benefited from a program that aids women- and minority- owned businesses, she welcomes neutral processes. Phoenix plans to change a 17-year-old program that helped steer city contracts to companies owned by women, minorities and small-business owners. Under a plan...