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Through a grant from the National Science Foundation, researchers will expand Alaska’s ‘community justice worker’ model, allowing non-attorneys to represent people.
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The reissued checks will go out in two batches: one batch this week and the second batch in early December.
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Itasca Waters will host a special Halloween webinar on Tuesday, Oct. 31 at noon featuring Dr. John Downing, Director of the Sea Grant program and a professor in the Department of Biology and with Large Lakes Observatory at UMD. His topic is “Supernatural lakes: monsters, ghosts, witches, fairies, and aliens.” His Halloween treat for the public is spooky stories of seemingly serene waters of lakes around the world.
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Emmer needed the support of nearly all House GOP Republicans and could lose no more than four of them. He spent hours trying to change the minds of those who opposed his candidacy, many of them ultra-conservative Freedom Caucus members.
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As speaker-designate, Emmer’s quick rise in leadership ranks is the result of a lifetime of ambition.
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The state's job growth last month outpaced that of the U.S. as a whole — up 0.3% in Minnesota compared to 0.2% nationally.
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Many federal and state programs are designed to support large scale projects, and communities like Bigfork struggle to show they’re primed for them.
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At least 24 Minnesotans lost their lives because of domestic violence in the state last year.
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Temporary housing is also getting priority. In northeastern Minnesota, the Arrowhead Economic Opportunity Agency has refurbished a memory care facility to serve as a homeless shelter.
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Many survey respondents say the pay is too low to attract new workers and is contributing to the severe staffing shortages that are burning out workers and harming the state’s elderly and disabled residents.
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Every month, between 27 and 54 American Indian women and girls were listed as missing in Minnesota from 2012 to 2020.
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Sen. Heather Gustafson is a Democrat from Vadnais Heights who advocated for one-time funding for city, county and tribal governments to use for public safety including law enforcement, fire, emergency services and other essential needs.