The Spoon: Minnesota softball players sue over trans policy

🥎 A conservative advocacy group representing three high school softball players has sued over a Minnesota State High School League policy allowing transgender athletes to participate in the sport. (MPR News)

🌿 The White Earth Band of Chippewa has signed a first-of-its-kind compact with Gov. Tim Walz allowing the tribe to open eight cannabis dispensaries outside of its reservation. (Star Tribune)

• The first could open in Moorhead as soon as this weekend.

🚔 An independent evaluator praised Minneapolis for making more early progress on its police reform settlement "than nearly any other jurisdiction" — but also highlighted lingering challenges facing the department. (KSTP)

🏀 A Hennepin County judge has dismissed a St. Louis Park woman's lawsuit challenging the placement of her next-door neighbors' basketball hoop. (KARE 11)

🌰 Golden Nuts, maker of trendy, pistachio-filled Dubai chocolate, plans to open a second location in Apple Valley sometime this fall. (Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal)

🏒 The Frost lost Game 1 of the PWHL finals in overtime last night. Game 2 is tomorrow night in Ottawa. (Associated Press)