Greater MN

Minnesota ranks seventh in the country for wind energy generation, which in 2020 accounted for 22 percent of the state’s total energy generation.

Unlike many white counterparts, farmers of color usually cannot expect to inherit land ownership or receive capital from a family member.

Ironically, the practices that have kept fire off the landscape are now creating an environment primed for catastrophic wildfire to occur.

The value of comprehensive data collection

The community of Granite Falls (pop. 2,897) is on the banks of the Minnesota River. The town was settled on

For decades, money has been leaving our community. We are going to bring it back.

Lead for Minnesota is a program that recruits, trains, and places recent college graduates around the state into two-year paid fellowships in or near their home community. There are currently 24 fellows in the 2020 class placed around Minnesota. Here are two of them.

Taking breaths, pushing through mistakes — the process of creating beauty out of mistakes and never throwing anything away was so important. I am quite emotional writing this. I am realizing how therapeutic that process was for me.

If it were profitable, internet providers would be serving more communities.

“Many of them grew up adopting the negative narrative that there are no opportunities or equity in small towns. That is not true. This work is flipping that narrative.”

There is, however, another layer to the mission: explore what it means to be a Black Minnesotan.

I did not feel vindicated that my testimony was proven correct but a deep sadness that what was foretold has come to be.