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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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Greta Gaard Speaks About the Interconnected Message of Ecofeminism

This interconnected self-identity is what will bring us together. It has the ability to save our communities. A relational ecological selfhood is not limited to a single gender, species, age, sexuality, or race. It is rooted in our interbeing. This is ecofeminism.
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Soil and Air Matter

There are grassroots organizations and cooperatives led by women and people of color that are making a real difference in renewable energy, urban farming, and more. In Minnesota, we need to invest in these community-led models and ensure that green opportunities are accessible to Latino families and other historically excluded communities.
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Building Child Care Solutions Statewide

In 2021, about 6,500 child care spaces were lost in non-metro Minnesota. This meant more parents stayed home due to lack of options, and rural companies in particular had trouble retaining employees. A few cities have taken steps to correct those issues.
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PHOTO GALLERY: Hands Off, April 2025

An estimated 25,000 people turned out in Saint Paul for the…
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Consumer Choices Spur Change

Purchasing choices are one way we can send a clear message to companies and the Trump administration that people have power beyond the vote.
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A Home Renovation Team That Leads by Empowerment

Weary of the “power dynamic” between customers and contractors, Baso says the goal is that homeowners should be able to advocate for themselves.
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Ecofeminism, Then to Now

"Feminists today understand that climate is more than weather. It is the violent context of toxicity, entitlement, and appropriation, whether targeting women’s bodies, Black lives, Indigenous lands, migrant workers fleeing ICE raids, or garment workers in unstable buildings."
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Panelists Talk About Bringing Authentic Selves to Work at Queermunity Event

As Verbeten said — encouraging folks to show up in political and community spaces — “just standing in your power, honestly being your true self, is also an act of rebellion and is very important.”
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A Round-up of Political Pushbacks and Explainers

As Democrats keep pointing out, Republicans have control of the government and could make any cuts they wanted through the normal course of legislation, but they are not doing so because they know those programs are popular. Instead, they are turning the project over to Musk.
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Concerns Raised About Food Shelf Needs Statewide

"The price of groceries has risen 25 percent and more families are finding that they're just not making it to the end of the month and need some additional assistance, so they're turning to food shelves to get that bit of extra help.”
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From Grand Rapids: Re-Evaluate Capitalism

"Democracy and capitalism are not synonymous, however. Let’s separate them in our thinking. Let’s start evolving into a different capitalism."
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Latine Minnesotans Organize Around Collective Health

"The narrative that Central American migrants are lazy, or violent criminals, ignores why these human beings are moving to seek safety and support."
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