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LATEST NEWS FROM THE NETWORK
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Minnesota churches respond to ICE presence with prayer, solidarity
January 27, 2026
Some Greater Minnesota churches opened their doors for fellowship on ‘ICE Out of Minnesota’ day.
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Inside the nightmare winter for Minnesota child care providers
January 22, 2026
There is uncertainty around half-a-billion dollars in federal funding, not to mention state scrutiny and frightening threats.
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Federal judge blocks plan to freeze Minnesota SNAP funds — for now
January 16, 2026
“We have won yet another battle in the Trump administration’s war on Minnesota,” Attorney General Keith Ellison said.
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ICE takes Operation Metro Surge into Greater Minnesota
January 12, 2026
Reports of Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in rural areas spiked over the weekend, particularly in southern Minnesota.
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Collecting wild plants for food and medicine is a tradition for many Minnesotans. It’s also against the law in many places.
December 18, 2025
A legislative task force is reviewing state rules on foraging and expected to make recommendations in early 2026.
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Minnesota nursing home workers will have to wait for raises because state dropped the ball on paperwork
December 12, 2025
The Minnesota Department of Human Services needs permission and money from the Trump administration to greenlight historic minimum wages in the embattled nursing home industry.
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For some in this western Minnesota city, an ICE detention center would bring economic promise — and moral compromise
November 17, 2025
Appleton’s private prison, once the town’s biggest employer, has sat unused for 15 years.
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In western Minnesota, a fleet of World War II aircraft brings a fading era to life
November 13, 2025
In Granite Falls, the Fagen Fighters World War II Museum houses working ‘warbirds’ and honors military veterans who helped define the Greatest Generation.
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Minnesota farmers want trade over aid, but they’d take some aid in the meantime
October 22, 2025
A bailout could hold farmers over as they contend with market disruptions linked to Trump’s trade war.
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Many Minnesotans already live miles from the nearest grocery store. What happens if it closes?
September 23, 2025
Small-town grocers feel a strong sense of responsibility to their communities, but the threat of closure often looms.
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How Mayo’s Greater Minnesota clinic closures will affect communities
September 15, 2025
Rural Minnesotans have less access to health care providers than their peers in metro areas, a gap that could widen even more with upcoming Mayo clinic closures in Greater Minnesota.
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‘Grave concern’ at Minnesota border as more Canadians stay home
September 03, 2025
With each local economy being tightly linked to its sister city, mayors Drake Dill of International Falls and Andrew Hallikas of Fort Frances said they hope tension between the countries ratchets down in short order.
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One Big Beautiful Farm Bill? GOP law offers some help to Minnesota farmers
August 12, 2025
Minnesota farmers said they appreciate agricultural provisions in the budget bill, but they aren’t enough to offset worries about commodity prices, tariffs and inflation.
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Trump’s public broadcasting cuts raise risk of radio silence in rural Minnesota
July 24, 2025
Emergency fundraising campaigns are already underway to help smaller, independent stations that will need to fill gaps in their budgets as soon as this fall.
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‘Seismic’ Medicaid changes will be rough on rural hospitals
July 08, 2025
Threats of losses of services and even hospital closures loom after Trump signs ‘big, beautiful’ budget bill into law.
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