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What's Making Us Happy: A guide to your weekend viewing, reading and listening

What's Making Us Happy: A guide to your weekend viewing, reading and listening

Each week, Pop Culture Happy Hour guests and hosts share what’s bringing them joy. This week: the Fad Camp podcast, the novel “Silver Nitrate,” and America Ferrera’s much-discussed monologue in “Barbie.”
by Kristen Meinzer, Wailin Wong and Glen Weldon

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Lawmaker: Raise fertilizer fees to help pay cost of nitrate pollution

Lawmaker: Raise fertilizer fees to help pay cost of nitrate pollution

DFL Rep. Rick Hansen says farmers should pay higher fees for nitrogen fertilizer, the source of the majority of nitrate contamination in southeast Minnesota. Farm groups oppose the idea.
by Kirsti Marohn

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New development planned for Grand Marais downtown on site of 3 businesses previously destroyed by fire

New development planned for Grand Marais downtown on site of 3 businesses previously destroyed by fire

A large, mixed use development has been proposed for downtown Grand Marais that would include a restaurant, short term rentals and an event center and rooftop patio on the site of a 2020 fire that destroyed three businesses.
by Dan Kraker

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From Amazon to Facebook and Google, here's how platforms can 'decay'

From Amazon to Facebook and Google, here's how platforms can 'decay'

If you feel like some important places on the internet have been getting worse, you're not alone. In fact, there has been a whole lot of action in the last 12 months.
by Ari Shapiro, Michael Levitt and Patrick Jarenwattananon

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Harvard president Claudine Gay resigns amid plagiarism claims, backlash from antisemitism testimony

Harvard president Claudine Gay resigns amid plagiarism claims, backlash from antisemitism testimony

Harvard University President Claudine Gay resigned Tuesday amid plagiarism accusations and criticism over testimony at a congressional hearing where she was unable to say unequivocally that calls on campus for the genocide of Jews would violate the school’s conduct policy.
by The Associated Press

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Historic wimpy winter challenges small businesses, outdoor enthusiasts

Historic wimpy winter challenges small businesses, outdoor enthusiasts

The historically warm and snow-free winter thus far across Minnesota is disheartening to skiers, snowmobilers and ice anglers. And it is taking a toll on small businesses that depend on those winter outdoor enthusiasts.
by Dan Kraker

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Dakota women leading two Twin Cities nonprofits aim to be catalysts for change 

Dakota women leading two Twin Cities nonprofits aim to be catalysts for change 

The Twin Cities are at the epicenter of a dynamic shift in the world of land stewardship and restoration work. Leading the charge are two nonprofit environmental organizations —Wakan Tipi Awanyankapi and Owámniyomni Okhódayapi — now both led by Indigenous women.  
by Mathew Holding Eagle III

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