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A Heartfelt Conversation about Caregiving in Mankato

Insights shared by three of the people who participated in a Mankato conversation about caregiving needs and gaps they have experienced.

A Conversation in Rochester About Improving Access to Domestic Violence Shelters

Minnesotans are somewhat aware of the 30 to 40 people in Minnesota who are murdered every year, but less about those people who are struggling inside a violent home.

Caregiving Professionals Talk About Challenges and Hopes

With federal budget cuts and worker shortages, caregiving is in short supply for elderly and children, people with disabilities or mental illness, as well as newcomers and other vulnerable populations. We talked with three caregiving professionals around Minnesota.

DEEP DIVE: The Farmington Push for Responsible Hyper-Scale Data Centers

At a recent public meeting hosted by the Minnesota Women’s Press, about 50 residents, legislators, and advocates invited by the Coalition for Responsible Data Centers gathered to discuss the rapid growth of hyper-scale data centers. The conversation centered on a proposed facility in Farmington — a project that could use as much as 2.93 million gallons of water per day — as well as implications statewide for taxpayers and neighborhoods if corporate needs are not regulated.

How Research Is Helping to Solve a Problem in the Steel Industry

Trees and other biomass — which absorb CO2 — can be processed at the end of their life span into an engineered biocarbon for steelmaking.

Voices of Energy, Land, and Justice

Those of us who live in urban and suburban places cannot expect rural people to shoulder the burden of hosting energy infrastructure while shutting them out of the discussion and providing no protections or benefits in return.

Energy as Commons: The Northland Solar Commons

The legal agreement between Heliene and the Bois Forte community beneficiaries represents the guiding principles of solar commoning: reciprocity, mutual aid, regenerative economics, and reparative justice.

EXPLAINER: What Minnesotans should learn about data centers

Farmington residents in lawsuit against city for approving large data center without transparency and community input.

NEWS: NAMI Concerned That New Lawsuit Threatens Progress for Mental Health Care in Jail

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"Jail is hardly the place to make changes to antipsychotic treatment.”

COMMENTARY: Why are local energy consumers subsidizing data centers?

The truth is, these data centers will create very few permanent jobs, but will create staggering costs for electricity ratepayers and everyone else across our state.

EXPLAINER: How the Tax Bill Impacts Your Health Care, in Bite-Size Terms

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“Some people say, ‘Oh, Medicaid, it's for poor people in the cities,’ but it's not. It's throughout the whole state of Minnesota. Sometimes the percentage of the population that's on Medicaid is higher in rural areas.” 

Navigating the Divide: Cooperation in the Age of Division

"In this age of fear, cooperation is more necessary — and more revolutionary — than ever. My hope is that we continue to build cooperatives that are authentically by us and for us, spaces where everyone can thrive, not merely survive."