Minnesota lawmakers spent a lot of time this session on whether to give the grand old State Capitol building major surgical repair or simply get out the needle for a temporary botox job.MORE »
Working a “second shift” is taking on new meaning for lower income Minnesota families trying to house kit and kin in a modest, two-bedroom apartment. For many, that second job is a must just to afford the basic necessities. MORE »
Minnesota farmers are back in their fields preparing land and planting new crops, spurred on by extremely warm and dry winter weather leaving April fields inviting for heavy farm tractors and equipment.MORE »
Back in his native Afghanistan, Ghafar Lakanwal had a front row seat to how heavy-handed authority undermined trust in institutions and held people back from entrepreneurship and progress.MORE »
The 2010 Census showed there are 313.2 million Americans and 5,344,861 Minnesotans. Except for those among us who will go hungry today, all are involved in “the farm program.”
It was Wendell Berry, the Kentucky author, essayist, poet, sometimes farmer and English professor, who reminded his agrarian fans, “Eating is an agricultural act.”MORE »
A fairly quiet trade agreement has been reached with Europe that should inspire economic development thinking on the part of Minnesota’s organic farmers and their friends within the state’s food co-op network.MORE »
We shouldn’t be smiling, but the impulse is understandable. The American Civil Liberties Union of Minnesota has put up a $1,000 bounty for anyone who can prove a case of voter fraud that could have been prevented by a proposed Constitutional amendment that will be on the ballot this November.MORE »
Local advocates for cooperatives are celebrating signs that momentum is gaining for legislation that gives cooperative business development a boost in urban and underserved communities like existing programs that serve rural areas.MORE »
A fairly quiet trade agreement has been reached with Europe that should inspire economic development thinking on the part of Minnesota’s organic farmers and their friends within the state’s food co-op network.
