A letter from Democratic senators to USDA challenges the department for freezing or canceling roughly $1 billion that would have provided more food to local food banks nationally. USDA has not responded to questions about the canceled food-bank and local-food contracts.
Every spring, the shipping season in St. Paul, Minnesota begins when the first tow pushing barges makes it through Lake Pepin and eventually locks through Hastings, Minnesota, at Lock and Dam No. 2.