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EXPLAINER: Minneapolis Policing Budget (updated 10/15)

  Mayor Jacob Frey’s proposed 2027-28 budget allocates…

EXPLAINER: When Medicaid Changes Come Home to Minnesota (with flyer)

With the levels of misunderstanding about the systems we rely on day-to-day when we get hospital and clinic care, this Explainer is the first in a series designed to help people understand how the government — and the people we elect to it — serve the common good with the decisions they make about policy and funding priorities. #1: What Minnesotans need to know about how federal Medicaid cuts will impact everyone. Includes a one-page flyer of details.

When “Home” Is Complicated: A Reflection From the Book “Remember the Bees”

Where to live is not a simple question. Everyone has to make difficult decisions in prioritizing certain aspects over others: a beautiful view or cost, safety or family, economic stability or culture. No one can tell my husband whether living in Thailand or the U.S. is a better choice, just as no one can tell the family in "Remember the Bees" whether to stay in Inzerki — home to the world’s largest collection of managed beehives — or to try life in the city. 

Somali Panelists Answer: What Does Home Mean to You?

"I've had so many opportunities to move — to go to school somewhere else. Every time I've traveled, I've always missed Minnesota. There's no other community that has given me a sense of belonging like here."

Talk & Do: Steps to Get From Crisis Response to Community Healing (Part 2)

“What I hope will come out of this winter are a reinvestment in mutual aid that is community-organized and led. That is whole-community resilience. These systems could keep being strengthened if they keep being nurtured.” Society has “not yet started to see the mental health impacts” these crises will have on children over time.

TALK & DO: Recovering From the Trauma of ICE Operations – What Do We Do Next? (Part 1)

With thousands of masked and armed federal forces now mostly…

The Health Effects of ICE Tactics

Minnesota Women’s Press is gathering experts for a future online discussion with members, and deeper stories, about physical and mental health issues impacting children and adults. What do we do as a community to heal from what ICE agents have done?

RESOURCES: Mental Health and Trauma apps, website, videos, podcasts

Kids At Risk Action advocates for at-risk children through education…

Commentary: Listening to Minnesota Students Discuss 2026 Legislative Priorities

Roughly 70 mostly high school students from around the state assembled for the third annual Youth Summit held in the House chambers at the Minnesota state capitol — a caucus for youth leading each other in small group discussions about education, gun violence, housing, and mental health.

RESOURCE: Extreme Risk Protection Orders, what it does and who it might be for

The Hennepin County attorney's office has created a toolkit to help people understand the value of Extreme Risk Protection Orders, and the warning signs that might require it.

How Rochester and Duluth Respond to Mental Health and Substance Use Calls

“Ultimately the goal for us is to not have police officers involved with every single psych event or mental health crisis that goes on here in the city,” says Captain Jennifer Hodgman of the Community Services Division in the Rochester Police Department (RPD).

Recognizing Four Other Changemaking Voices This Year

Changemakers recognition is usually given to people who tend to be unknown outside of their immediate communities, and who have not yet appeared in our pages. This year we wanted to give recognition to two people for lifetime achievements as they step into retirement (Sue Abderholden and Pamela Zeller), Nekima Levy Armstrong and the impactful Target boycott protesting their pullback from diversity pledges, and the PFund Foundation for trans health.