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I am the child of a sharecropper’s son and a coal miner’s daughter. The mining industry and union struggle are

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Minnesota ranks seventh in the country for wind energy generation, which in 2020 accounted for 22 percent of the state’s total energy generation.

To honor St. James, a former resident living in Atlanta asked a Latinx artist to work on a mural to capture what makes the community so unique.

The community of Granite Falls (pop. 2,897) is on the banks of the Minnesota River. The town was settled on

For decades, money has been leaving our community. We are going to bring it back.

If it were profitable, internet providers would be serving more communities.

“Many of them grew up adopting the negative narrative that there are no opportunities or equity in small towns. That is not true. This work is flipping that narrative.”

There is, however, another layer to the mission: explore what it means to be a Black Minnesotan.

Moonshot, a safety tech firm, analyzed more than six months worth of search data showing online appetite for extremist mobilization to targeted violence, political violence, anti-government, conspiracy theories, and armed groups.

I do not want to keep having marches to remember these beautiful women and relatives because something awful happened to them. We have to be proactive.

When they took down the trees, to me that is an act of genocide. That is a declaration of war against the Ojibwe — to push this pipeline through.