The Spoon: Ant on the KAT trade

🇨🇳 Walz's claims that he's visited China around 30 times were overstated, his campaign acknowledged, saying he's been there "closer to 15" times. (MPR News)

🏭 3M healthcare spinoff Solventum is planning a high-tech medical research and development facility in Eagan that will employ 600-800 people. (Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal)

📱 Verizon says it has fixed a network issue that caused yesterday's service disruptions for some customers in the Twin Cities. (Background via Axios)

🐺 Quote du jour

"I think everybody know KAT (is) my brother so that definitely hurt, but you know, it's a business. I just got to roll with it."