Daily Digest: pollution and scrappers

Good morning. It's Wednesday already. Here are some interesting items in the news.

1. State and federal regulators say some water could flow north from a proposed Polymet copper-nickel mine. (Star Tribune)

2. The global slowdown is being felt by a small group of entrepreneurs here in Minnesota. (MPR News)

3.  Gov. Mark Dayton and the Legislature appear to have a love-hate relationship, but without much of the love part. (MinnPost)

4. Pope Francis is giving priests a one year window to forgive women who had abortions. (NPR)

5. Driverless cars aren't safe because they can't take human error into account. Wasn't there an episode of Star Trek like this? (New York Times)

 

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