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Living through crisis: How to cope with grief, unrelenting stress and toxic positivity

Living through crisis: How to cope with grief, unrelenting stress and toxic positivity

Do you find yourself dealing with angry people, grief or toxic positivity right now? How are you doing when there is so much turmoil in Minnesota? MPR News talks with her guests about living through crisis.
by Angela Davis and Maja Beckstrom

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Kidney recipient arrested by ICE in Rochester last week still isn't getting needed medications

Kidney recipient arrested by ICE in Rochester last week still isn't getting needed medications

The wife of a kidney transplant recipient tells MPR News that four days after his arrest, the man still has not received the medications he needs to keep his body from rejecting the kidney.
by Molly Castle Work and David Schaper

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Fear in Minnesota’s Somali community deepens, hampering progress on measles vaccination

Fear in Minnesota’s Somali community deepens, hampering progress on measles vaccination

Public health officials say a measles crisis has long been brewing in Minnesota. For years, the state’s large Somali community has been fertile ground for the myth that the measles vaccine causes autism. Data show autism rates in Somali 4-year-olds are high.
by The Associated Press

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Minnesota parents look for ways to help kids cope and process ICE trauma and chaos

Minnesota parents look for ways to help kids cope and process ICE trauma and chaos

As the Trump administration's immigration crackdown continues across Minnesota, parents are increasingly worried about what their children, even preschoolers, might be seeing and hearing, and the harm the chaos and trauma may do to their mental and emotional well-being.
by Hannah Yang

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Anoka opens Minnesota’s first government-run cannabis dispensary, one of few of its kind in country

Anoka opens Minnesota’s first government-run cannabis dispensary, one of few of its kind in country

The city of Anoka held a soft opening for its new dispensary, Anoka Cannabis Company, on Thursday. It’s believed to be one of the only city-operated cannabis stores to open in the U.S. since a city in the state of Washington opened a dispensary back in 2015.
by Nicole Ki

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Children’s Minnesota to pause some pediatric gender health services

Children’s Minnesota to pause some pediatric gender health services

Gender-affirming care for transgender youth remains legal in Minnesota, but the hospital says it will pause prescribing puberty-suppressing medications and pubertal hormones to patients under the age of 18.
by Erica Zurek

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State adding staff to review nearly 6,000 Medicaid providers in Minnesota for potential fraud

State adding staff to review nearly 6,000 Medicaid providers in Minnesota for potential fraud

Minnesota’s Department of Human Services is bringing on more than 160 additional staff to help inspect Medicaid providers for fraud, as they face a federal threat to withhold $2 billion in Medicaid funds over fraud allegations.
by Estelle Timar-Wilcox

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