Yasin Mohamud

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Yasin Mohamud writes for the Minnesota Daily.

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With NRP's closure, city department takes over funding neighborhoods

By Yasin Mohamud, The Minnesota Daily

Bob Miller looks at the 20 years he spent as director of the Minneapolis Neighborhood Revitalization Program with pride.

“One of the beauties of that program was the fact that I could look at an awful lot of stuff that was done in the last 20 years in our neighborhoods and say that was incredible,” Miller said.MORE »

Neighborhoods halt city project to build noise barriers along Interstate 35W

By Yasin Mohamud, The Minnesota Daily

A plan to build sound walls on the east and west sides of Interstate 35W is putting the Minneapolis Department of Transportation at odds with residents of the Marcy-Holmes and Southeast Como neighborhoods.MORE »

Full-time and debt-free: Some U students never borrow, work full-time to support themselves

By Yasin Mohamud, The Minnesota Daily

Even with student loan debt totaling $1 trillion and a weak job market, some University of Minnesota students will graduate debt-free because they worked their way through college.MORE »

High tunnels mean bigger yields in winter for Minnesota farmers

By Yasin Mohamud, The Minnesota Daily

Watching his father constructing high tunnels — structures that keep crops warm during the winter — sparked Spencer Barriball’s interest.

The farming bug hit the University of Minnesota horticulture student when his father started working on a farm three years ago.MORE »