Albert Lea

Mr. Buettner had tested the idea of tweaking people’s surroundings to encourage healthy living with a project in a small Minnesota city, Albert Lea, in 2009.

Chris Seedorf of Albert Lea, Minnesota, was wearing an American-flag cowboy hat and a shirt with a cartoon of a shotgun-wielding Trump modeled on Elmer Fudd and the slogan “Be Very Quiet I’m Offending Liberals.”

The appeals court used similar legal reasoning earlier this year when it rejected arguments by a woman who had been convicted of operating a wine bar and restaurant in Albert Lea in violation of the governor’s pandemic orders.

Jackson Cox, a 17-year-old who will vote for the first time in 2024, drove from Albert Lea, Minn., to hear the candidates he will choose from.

When the attorney general’s office prosecutes criminal cases, they’re usually complex cases in rural counties where local prosecutors are short on resources and expertise, such as the shooting of a police officer in Albert Lea.