Almost immediately after the tornado struck North Minneapolis in May 2011, the Minneapolis Foundation established its Minnesota Helps Fund and raised $1,756,060 to assist Northside residents.
Matt Smriga, director of campus organizing with the Minnesota State University Student Association, said many youth are intimidated by the voting process.
In 2008, young voters helped make Barack Obama the president.
Duluth recently experienced a true “flood of the century.” In weather records going back 130 years, there is no data for any storm dropping so much rain in so little time.
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