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How philanthropy can support housing stability and racial justice

How philanthropy can support housing stability and racial justice

The Pohlad Family Foundation focuses its philanthropy on housing and racial justice. MPR News host Angela Davis talks with the foundation’s president, Susan Bass Roberts, about where the money goes.
by Angela Davis and Maja Beckstrom

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Survivor of deadly trip across Canada-US border expected to testify in human smuggling trial

Survivor of deadly trip across Canada-US border expected to testify in human smuggling trial

An Indian migrant who survived a deadly trek across the Canada-U.S. border in blizzard conditions is expected to testify Tuesday in the federal trial of two men accused of taking part in a sprawling human smuggling scheme that ultimately killed a family of four.
by The Associated Press

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Grapegate: Remembering the New York Times’ grape salad debacle 10 years later

Grapegate: Remembering the New York Times’ grape salad debacle 10 years later

The New York Times said it “scoured the nation for recipes that evoke each of the 50 states,” and Minnesota wound up with a grape monstrosity mixed with sour cream and topped with brown sugar.
by Anna Haecherl

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Teenage Buddhist lama celebrates last birthday in the U.S. before joining monastery in the Himalayas

Teenage Buddhist lama celebrates last birthday in the U.S. before joining monastery in the Himalayas

A U.S.-born Buddhist lama celebrated his 18th birthday with an elaborate enthronement ceremony. Hundreds attended the event at the Tibetan American Foundation of Minnesota. It’s the last big party for Jalue Dorje before he joins a monastery in the Himalayan foothills — thousands of miles from his home in suburban Minneapolis.
by The Associated Press

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Innovative Iron Range landfill project tackles climate change, ‘forever chemicals’

Innovative Iron Range landfill project tackles climate change, ‘forever chemicals’

A new project at a small landfill on Minnesota’s Iron Range is simultaneously helping to tackle two of society’s most vexing environmental problems — climate change and the treatment of so-called “forever chemicals.”
by Dan Kraker

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In Wabasha, a collector puts his passion for all things eagles on full display

In Wabasha, a collector puts his passion for all things eagles on full display

Preston Cook spent decades collecting tens of thousands of items bearing bald eagle imagery. The longtime California real estate developer donated the collection to the National Eagle Center in Wabasha and then moved to town.
by Dan Gunderson

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