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Deep Dive: How the Attorney General’s Office Impacts Affordability, Housing, and Healthcare

At a recent campaign rally for Attorney General Keith Ellison, Sen. Tina Smith, Rep. Ilhan Omar, and Ellison talked about several key issues impacting voters this season. Following are excerpts of the discussion, including Ellison's talking points about the economics of daily living, healthcare, housing, and other details related to how affordability is tied up in government policy and enforcement.
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A Conversation About Priorities with U.S. Senate Candidate Peggy Flanagan

Two of our Future Forward editorial board members — a board of women under the age of 25 — had a chance to talk with Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan, who is running for U.S. Senate. Here is some of the conversation.
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EXPLAINER: Mining in Minnesota

Minnesota has mined iron for well over a century, and it is still the largest producer of iron ore and taconite in the United States. Now the state is at the center of a bigger question: should it open a second kind of mining, for copper, nickel and other metals, in some of its most water-rich landscapes? This Explainer is part of 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 that impact the interconnected whole.
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Mindful Consumption

Now every fashion and apparel course at St. Kate’s includes texts and coursework that offer holistic views of sustainability issues in the fashion industry.
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The Upcycler

Kristen McCoy, known to friends as “The Upcycler,” has a simple mission: to rescue used garments from the landfill and invigorate them with new life.
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Hen Solo: My Life as a Chicken

I am one of the lucky ones. I am a Heritage Chicken who grew up on a 100-acre farm in Northfield, at the Main Street Project. My human friend Rocky, along with farmers Antonia and Maria, are among those working together to create sustainable futures for rural immigrant farmers across the Midwest.
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My Unintended Journey

adapted from “Green Card Entrepreneur Voices” My…
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Creator of New Data

(photo by Iyana Esters) Since her childhood in Chicago,…
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Building Sustainable Community

Kim Norton discusses her vision at the Mayor’s office in Rochester.…
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Be Good to Fundraisers Month

Leah Olm is the Director of Coaching and Curriculum for RaiseMN,…
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Living on the Red Road

This is something we have always known and valued as Native people — how to only take what we need from the environment around us.
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Mary Grove

Entrepreneurial Vision

My commitment with Revolution is to invest in entrepreneurs outside of traditional tech hubs.
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Elaine Rasmussen

Funding the Revolution

There are 157,821 women-owned businesses in Minnesota, generating $24.6 billion of receipts. Of privately held businesses, 33.0% are women-owned. Source: National Women’s Business Council, 2012 data
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Healthy Self, Healthy Planet

The moment we say, ‘we don’t need this bug, we don’t need this plant,’ the system starts to weaken. If this happens again and again, the system collapses. Every time we have excluded a person or group of people, it has been at our own peril. We will have a viable future only when diverse knowledge, skills, attitudes, and cultural understanding are brought to the table.
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Entrepreneurial Vision

My commitment with Revolution is to invest in entrepreneurs outside of traditional tech hubs.
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