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The story behind Minnesota’s weirdly shaped northern border
WEBFeb 4, 2014 · John Mitchell’s 1755 map showed Lake of the Woods as roughly egg-shaped. In 1798, British explorer David Thompson proved that the northernmost source of the Mississippi was south of Lake of the ...
Walz spending plan consumes much of Minnesota’s current
WEBJan 27, 2022 · A lot of Walz's proposed spending would be embedded into the state operating budget, obligating the state to spend more in the future to keep those programs in place.
A brief history of Minnesota’s Mesabi Iron Range - MinnPost
WEBMay 26, 2020 · The Mesabi Iron Range’s history as a mining district begins well before ore was unearthed. More than two billion years ago, an era of mountain building known as the Algoman orogeny occurred ...
Does Minnesota law have a ‘viability’ threshold limiting abortion?
WEBJul 12, 2022 · The following year, Minnesota lawmakers enacted some restrictions, passing a law that says abortions after a fetus is “potentially viable” must be performed at a hospital, and are limited to ...
It’s important to hear and learn from youth experiencing
WEBJul 19, 2021 · Black and Native American youth are at a disproportionately high risk of homelessness. Poor education helps produce homelessness. More than half of the survey’s respondents (10 out of 16) who ...
How Walz won Minnesota governor's race against Jensen in charts …
WEBNov 9, 2022 · DFL Gov. Tim Walz beat GOP candidate Scott Jensen in Tuesday’s election by 7.7 percentage points, a smaller margin than his 11.4-point victory in 2018. Nonetheless, it was considered a major ...
The U.S.-Dakota war of 1862 lasted just six weeks, but its
WEBMar 7, 2022 · It built few schools, offered insufficient education in farming, and charged exorbitant prices for homesteading goods. Many Dakota people used what money they did receive to pay off inflated debts ...
Why Minnesota hasn’t joined 39 other states in the Nurse
WEBFeb 22, 2022 · For 35 minutes, backers of a bill to make Minnesota part of a 39-state nursing licensure compact talked around the reasons why it hasn’t passed — and why it likely won’t pass this year either.
Walz’s ‘tax the rich’ plan doesn’t just tax the rich - MinnPost
WEBJan 29, 2021 · Taken together, the three measures would raise $1.3 billion of the $1.66 billion total tax hike proposed by Walz, and the governor’s plan has been praised by DFL lawmakers and constituency ...