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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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BOOK: A Conversation About Simple Living With Tamara Dean

What was one aspect of sustainable farming and living off the land that was not expected? 
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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.
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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.
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Transforming Our Reliance on Limited Fossil Fuels

We will need to cope with declining energy availability as a culture. We will all be better off if we reduce the energy we use.
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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.
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EXPLAINER: What Minnesotans should learn about data centers

Farmington residents in lawsuit against city for approving large data center without transparency and community input.
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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.
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Two Recent Interviews With Publisher About New Directions for Our Media Platforms

On June 20, I was asked to join radio host Mike McIntee on an AM950 radio show to talk about independent journalism and the new direction of Minnesota Women's Press into statewide discussions about stories and stories about discussions. Here is an excerpt of our conversation.
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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."
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Values in a Rural Town

As we grow together, we’re co-creating a mini economy that builds the basis for an emerging value system — one that doesn’t have to rest on ever-increasing consumption or outward expansion, but rather depends on a more comprehensive, deeper understanding of how we are connected.
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Why I Have Built My Life Around Co-op Culture

The act of cooperation predates capitalism. Communities have always worked together to raise each other’s kids, harvest shared food, and trade. Living in community, sharing resources, and interdependence are traditional values.
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Imagining a Potential Co-op Future for Minnesota Women’s Press

In the coming year, Minnesota Women's Press will explore whether it can transition into a cooperative, member-owned news organization.
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