By Emily Gurnon, Pioneer Press, St. Paul, Minn. Feb. 11--Medtronic wants to speed up the building of its new cardiac rhythm management facility in Mounds View and will ask elected officials Monday to approve a new timeline and financing scheme for the project.

Aug. 23--Minutes into a Mounds View City Council meeting about whether to remove the last major hurdle to a planned $65 million Medtronic development, things got emotional Monday evening.