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EXPLAINER: Minneapolis Policing Budget

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

How a Biker Club Evolved Into Protest Marshals and Fundraisers

We recently talked to a few riders in a Twin Cities motorcycle club — including people named Barbie, Kassie, Bridget, Rachel, Amie, Marni, and Megan. The group is known as Bikers Riding Against Policy Brutality, and was formed to protect protestors after George Floyd was murdered by police in 2020. Today they are still engaged in marshaling at various marches, but also in fundraising and mutual aid efforts.

DEEP DIVE: How Politics Is, and Is Not, Addressing Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault (new resources added 10/8/2026)

In a conversation with U.S Senate candidate Peggy Flanagan last week with members of our young Future Forward editorial board, we talked about how powerful it is for four Minnesota women to be running for the two highest offices in the state — including Governor. We also talked about the obvious misogyny we see in the highest places in U.S. government.

Bulletin Board: A Running Tally of Posts From Other Sources

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. 

Publisher’s Commentary on World News Day: Why Our Feminist Media Platform Exists

Today is World News Day, which coincides with the United Nations International Day for Universal Access to Information. More than a thousand newsrooms from more than 100 countries are today pointing out the value of a free press, including Minnesota Women's Press. Here is our essay on the subject.

Publisher’s Commentary: “A Work in Progress” Documentary by Robert Reich

The conversations we can have with each other are not about telling people what to think, but by creating more places to think together. More opportunities to explore the essential ingredients of collective health and personal fulfillment, and to ask what we owe one another as neighbors and citizens. This feels more consequential to me than the horse races, outrage, and gossip that so often define the media landscape.

What Dolly Parton Taught Me About Mutual Aid 

When I read of Dolly Parton’s recent death, the first thing I thought about was when I celebrated her birthday with hundreds of fellow Minnesotans in the heart of Operation Metro Surge.

Truth #2: Learning From Rapid Response Lessons for the Next Crisis

A missed opportunity was protecting the right to seek health care, go to school, go to worship, go to work. “We had the ability to basically bring a lawsuit against the government, saying that because of their operation, they were freezing people who should be unaffected by your operation. ... We didn't really have the ability to gather their stories so we could put them in a petition against the government.”

Truth #3: Protecting Small Businesses and Elderly Neighbors

“In moments of crisis, people appreciate you just asking them how you are doing. As someone who has suffered from PTSD [post-traumatic stress disorder], it is important to have moments of humor, cracking a joke, simply talking to somebody that you knew for years. Just doing those things can really change a person's outlook.”

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."