by GLC Staff | Oct 18, 2025 | austin, crime, legal, minnesota, united states
(Photo: On Far Right – Facebook/ Jen Kimlinger Photography) Austin, MN — October 18, 2025 One year after his conviction, the case of Payton Anthony Miller — stemming from an August 2023 altercation at the Mower County Fair — has raised questions about how...
by GLC Staff | Jul 21, 2025 | austin, legal, minnesota, opinion, politics, united states
(Photo: Facebook) AUSTIN, Minn. — July 21, 2025 — Craig Merle Byram, Austin’s City Attorney and a practicing lawyer in the same city he legally advises, is raising serious questions about ethics, conflicts of interest, and municipal accountability. Byram’s...
by GLC Staff | Jun 2, 2025 | albert lea, austin, business, cannabis, cannabis, cannabis, civil, duluth, legal, minneapolis, minnesota, politics, small business, st. paul, united states
Photo: Superior Cannabis Company (Jeffrey Robert Brinkman – Center) MINNESOTA — In 2018, Minnesota courts issued harassment restraining orders (HROs) against Jeffrey Robert Brinkman, a resident of Austin, MN, and owner of Superior Cannabis Company, which...
by GLC Staff | May 30, 2025 | austin, business, cannabis, cannabis, cannabis, crime, duluth, legal, marketing, minneapolis, minnesota, politics, small business, st. paul, united states
Photo: Alpha Mark (Nathanial Jeffrey Brinkman – Right) Duluth, MN — Nathanial Jeffrey Brinkman, co-founder of Duluth-based marketing firm AlphaMark, has a criminal record stemming from a 2017 felony assault in Austin, Minnesota, along with longstanding public...
by GLC Staff | May 13, 2025 | austin, business, cannabis, cannabis, cannabis, civil, culture, duluth, legal, minneapolis, minnesota, politics, small business, st. paul, united states
Photo: Superior Cannabis Company (Jeffrey Robert Brinkman – Center) MINNESOTA — Court records from a recent Minnesota case show that a legal action filed by Jeff Brinkman in 2025 was dismissed, with courts awarding attorney’s fees to defendants under Minnesota’s...
by GLC Staff | Apr 19, 2025 | albert lea, art + food, austin, business, charity, culture, faribault, legal, minnesota, opinion, owatonna, rochester, united states, winona
(Photo: Facebook) Albert Lea, MN — April 19, 2025 Nonprofits exist to serve communities, not the insiders who sit on their boards. Yet the Southeastern Minnesota Arts Council (SEMAC) demonstrates how easily that line can blur — and in the case of Elisha Marin and the...
