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CALL: What We Are Talking About This Week

What we are talking about the week of May 24 around the state

  • 05/24/2023
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Part 2: House Debates About Gun Legislation and Restorative Justice

The Minnesota legislature has been working for several months on new public safety policy. As the session winds down, they are closer on several progressive measures. This story reflects some of the conversation that members have had about the provisions in past debates.

  • 05/10/2023
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NEWS: Two Recent Minneapolis Events Showcase New Imagination Around Public Safety

Junauda Petrus and Rep. María Isa are helping to bring attention to long-standing and generally underappreciated approaches to address public safety

  • 05/08/2023
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Farming Needs Addressed in Town Hall and Omnibus Agriculture Bill

“I would like to see a proliferation of farmers markets in Greater Minnesota and regional community markets. The more we can invest in them, the better.”

  • 05/06/2023
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Racial Justice Network: Frank Talk About the Pushback to Reforming Criminal Legal System

Minneapolis police chief Brian O’Hara: “I perceived that everyone here wanted to change: residents, government, police officers. And I was wrong. People absolutely want progress, but people don’t really want change.”

  • 05/04/2023
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SERIES: Creating Authentic Safety in Minnesota

Stories that reflect the challenges and solutions to creating a safer Minnesota that relies less on locks than on addressing behavioral concerns and needs.

  • 05/04/2023
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Minnesota Mothers Testify to U.N. Delegation About Losing Their Children to Police Violence

This ongoing series of testimonials shares the stories of pain direct from mothers of Black sons killed by police

  • 05/03/2023
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On Morals and Mortality: A Commentary From the Publisher

Our safety net is to work in a system of production within community.

  • 05/01/2023
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Breaking the Cycles that Lead to Violence

“We’re seeing a resurgence of interest in restorative justice, because it resonates, I think, at the core with so many of us.”

  • 04/26/2023
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Announcing the Hometown Values & Vision Tour

“Our superpower is getting people with great insights into the same space.”
— publisher Mikki Morrissette

  • 04/26/2023
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What Matters to Us: Editor’s Letter and TOC

“You have to act as if it were possible to radically transform the world. And you have to do it all the time.” — Angela Davis

  • 04/26/2023
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Deep Dive: Teaching Multicultural History Passes Into Law — With Similar Opposition from a Few Decades Ago

Deep reporting of the wide perspectives of Minnesota legislators in discussing the ethnic studies bill proposed for an impending vote.

  • 04/26/2023