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Fix a flat? Slippery brakes? Need winter bicycle commuting advice? You’re covered thanks to the MCTC Bicycle Collective. This group of student volunteers sets up a mobile bike repair shop on campus, aiming to empower, educate, and advocate for all bikers in the city.Another reason why foot-powered progress works for Minnesota. Continue Reading
Delivering quality healthcare to rural patients tends to require significant travel. In recent years, however, patients have been receiving some of the important care they need without leaving their communities, or in some cases their living rooms. Telemedicine industry innovations are changing healthcare to a more patient-centric system, allowing physicians to virtually examine and treat folks. This cuts back on travel and increases preventative care access. Continue Reading
With the combination of a slowing economy and an aging population, the health care system will feel deep impacts of a nursing shortage. Fewer students are seeking advanced practice nursing degrees, and retiring instructors are not being replaced fast enough. Leading educators, nurse advocates, and students are preparing for the future, are our policy makers doing the same? Continue Reading
It’s been a tough year of conservative attacks on Minnesota workers. Unemployment has hit building trades particularly hard and much needed infrastructure projects go unstarted.Workers, students, and community organizers are taking their message to the streets. We need to create jobs that fix our crumbling roads, bridges, and schools, while letting all Minnesotans share in the state’s prosperity. Continue Reading
This week’s school levy referenda victories demonstrate Minnesotans’ commitment to investing in education, despite conservative “no-new-tax” rhetoric. As school funding from the state is on a 13% inflation-adjusted decline, voters delivered a strong message to policymakers that they must fix education funding at the state level. Continue Reading
Clean energy projects are underway in Southeastern Minnesota. The Sierra Club Northstar Chapter teamed up with local environmental advocates, labor leaders and policymakers to tour a list of renewable energy projects in the Rochester area. Investing in clean energy manufacturing and production is a clear solution for creating jobs, saving on energy costs, and reducing our carbon footprint. Continue Reading
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