Katie Trottier of Minneapolis turned to Whistleblower when she couldn’t persuade U.S. Bank to forgive overdraft fees charged to her after a thief drained her checking account. Whistleblower reporter Lora Pabst described the bank’s change of heart when confronted with the facts. In the Sunday Whistleblower column, I described how Vivian Mason, a Minneapolis park commissioner from 1997 until 2005, was taken aback when she learned that memorials aren’t forever in the City of Lakes parklands. Her endowment of a bench in memory of her late husband Jack came with a time limit, and the cost of renewal was rising 150 percent, as part of a new plan to use the tributes to cover the park board’s maintenance costs and to raise money for the park system’s foundation. Whistleblower will check back in with Mason to see if the bench by Cedar Lake gets a new benefactor.

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