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Township governments hit pause on frac sand at yearly meetings, wait for state legislature to act

By Sally Jo Sorensen, Bluestem Prairie

As the Minnesota legislature mulls over bills to regulate and tax industrial sand mining in the gopher state, the Rochester Post Bulletin reports (with an unintentionally misleading headline) that For townships, silica not a hot issue at their annual meetings coming up Tuesday.

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Bluestem Prairie

With hotel purchases, the Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe welcomes you to St. Paul (again)

By Nick Coleman, The Uptake

What goes around comes around.

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What CapX2020 (and bad public policy) could destroy

By Brian DeVore, Loon Commons

As LSP’s latest action alert makes clear, the companies behind the CapX2020 high voltage line are trying to get away with not paying for the true value of the Minnesota farm operations they will be destroying. Unfortunately, the attitude that land which isn’t sprouting industrial infrastructure or subdivisions is nothing more than cheap ”wasted space” is prevalent among many corporations. Perhaps that shouldn’t surprise us.

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Food policy: Making a place at the table for information

By Mary Treacy, Poking Around

In recent months readers of Poking Around have quietly endured my efforts to grasp the anomaly of hunger in a world of plenty – the struggle to connect the dots between world hunger and overproduction, to get a grip on the politics that tolerate hungry families in our community, to comprehend what it means to embrace the right to food as a human right. Because my predisposition is to view every issue through the prism of open government, my mind wants to create a holistic approach to thinking about hunger in lay terms. Flailing in an unfamiliar world of ambiguity and complexity, my only tool is a structured approach to gathering and organizing information till it makes sense.

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The Beez Kneez' Honey House – What everyone's buzzing about

By Rebekah Peterson, My Broadsheet

A Community Bees on Bikes class checks out the bees during a class at a Hive Site. (Image courtesy of Beez Kneez)

Kristy Allen and Erin Rupp, the two women behind Beez Kneez are on a mission to bring bees and bee education to Minneapolis in a big way, and their headquarters – the Honey House – will be right in Longfellow.

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SF 786, Schmit silica sand mining bill, approved by State and Local Government Committee

By Sally Jo Sorensen, Bluestem Prairie

Freshman Senator Matt Schmit's bill to impose a one-year statewide moratorium on new industrial sand mining, processing and loading facilities in Minnesota while a Generic Environmental Impact Statement (GEIS) is prepared passed on a 8-5 vote in the Minnesota Senate State and Local Government Committee Wednesday afternoon.

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Bluestem Prairie

Minneapolis: Remembering the good old days as Kaplan Bros., Inc., closes its doors

By Elaine Klaassen, Southside Pride

Former customer Elaine Klaassen stands in front of the empty store wearing her gloves, Caterpillar hooded sweatshirt and boots from Kaplan’s. She feels, like many loyal fans in the Twin Cities area, “Kaplan’s was my kind of store.”

Kaplan Brothers store, founded in 1926 on the corner of Franklin and Bloomington, and relocated to Lake Street and 15th in 1988 after a terrible fire, closed for good on Feb. 16, 2013, at 5 o’clock in the afternoon.

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March Longfellow business news

By Rebekah Peterson, My Broadsheet

We’re starting up a new monthly feature here at My Broadsheet – Longfellow Business News. Businesses are opening, growing, moving, closing – and we want to make sure you know about it.

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Millions of dollars sought to entice businesses

By Mike Cook, Session Weekly/Session Daily

Gov. Mark Dayton would like an additional $30 million in the next biennium to help businesses move to Minnesota or expand within the state.

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Historically noncontroversial, agriculture omnibus bill doesn't get out of committee

By Jonathan Mohr, Session Weekly/Session Daily

The trouble for HF473 and its chances of passing the House Agriculture Policy Committee as currently written, began about 20 minutes into the committee’s meeting Wednesday. Department of Agriculture officials were wrapping up an overview of the omnibus agriculture finance bill, when Rep. Roger Erickson (DFL-Baudette) asked a question about a $2 million expenditure.

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