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As Minnesota lawmakers work to stop grooming in schools, a question lingers: What is grooming?

As Minnesota lawmakers work to stop grooming in schools, a question lingers: What is grooming?

State lawmakers are looking at measures to prevent grooming of children by adults in schools and other institutions. Experts say understanding what grooming is and isn’t is the first step to ending this damaging facet of child abuse.
by Elizabeth Shockman

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Why this Minneapolis feminist art collective still matters 50 years later

Why this Minneapolis feminist art collective still matters 50 years later

A Minneapolis exhibition marks 50 years of WARM, a pioneering feminist art collective that created space for women artists and helped reshape the local and national art scenes.
by Alex V. Cipolle

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Adult bathhouses were a part of Minneapolis nightlife. Then police and panic pushed them out

Adult bathhouses were a part of Minneapolis nightlife. Then police and panic pushed them out

Forty years after the adult bathhouse ban was passed, the city council is considering reversing it. A myriad of components led to the ban, but for several decades, public sexual spaces in Minneapolis were an active part of downtown.
by Sam Stroozas

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Winona-Rochester Bishop Robert Barron, a Trump ally, urges president to apologize to Pope

Winona-Rochester Bishop Robert Barron, a Trump ally, urges president to apologize to Pope

Conservative Catholic Bishop Robert Barron, who is a close ally of President Trump, sharply rebuked the president for his harsh rhetoric criticizing Pope Leo XIV, calling it “inappropriate and disrespectful.”
by Molly Castle Work

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Ramsey County launches $320 million development plan

Ramsey County launches $320 million development plan

Ramsey County is launching a new plan to sell off county-owned property and invest millions of dollars into development in downtown St. Paul.
by Estelle Timar-Wilcox

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Elk River teacher and veteran explains educating students about war as it's happening

Elk River teacher and veteran explains educating students about war as it's happening

Some of the burden of helping children make sense of those wars and other fraught international relations falls onto teachers. But how do you teach history as it's unfolding?
by Cathy Wurzer and Gracie Stockton

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Minneapolis prepares to break ground at George Floyd Square

Minneapolis prepares to break ground at George Floyd Square

City staff are holding public informational meetings this week about reconstruction plans at 38th Street and Chicago Avenue in Minneapolis ahead of a planned June groundbreaking.
by Estelle Timar-Wilcox

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Efforts underway for second round of U.S.-Iran talks as Strait of Hormuz showdown endures

Efforts underway for second round of U.S.-Iran talks as Strait of Hormuz showdown endures

The standoff between the United States and Iran is deepening as the U.S. has declared it has blockaded the Strait of Hormuz. Pakistan says it is racing to bring the sides together for more talks. Last week’s ceasefire appeared to hold on Tuesday.
by The Associated Press

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