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Student mental health needs, ‘unsustainable’ jobs overwhelm Minnesota school principals
A November statewide survey of Minnesota K-12 school principals found school leaders struggling for traction on instructional leadership and community engagement as they deal with their single greatest challenge, student mental health.
Art Hounds: A family struggles with the death of a patriarch
An Opera Theatre stages “The Cradle Will Rock,” Full Circle Theater stages “They Wear Teal Ribbons Around Their Tongues” and the Guild of Middle Eastern Dance performs its Spring Spectacular.  
Kings of chaos: A review of a marathon of Shakespeare at the Guthrie
The Guthrie Theater stages a compelling series of Shakespeare’s historical plays, using a turntable set to dynamically explore the turbulent reigns of three English kings across generations.
What we’ll grow and eat may change with a warming climate
For the last couple of years, more of the state, including the Twin Cities, have moved into a more temperate zone. What does it mean for our local agriculture?
Sentencing date set for Apple River stabbing case
A sentencing date has been set for the Minnesota man convicted last week in the fatal stabbing of a teenager while tubing on a western Wisconsin river.
Hubert H. Humphrey could replace Henry Mower Rice in proposed congressional statue swap
Minnesota lawmakers are weighing a resolution to ask that Humphrey’s likeness go into the U.S. Capitol’s National Statuary Hall, replacing Rice’s statue, which has been on display for more than a century.
Uber and Lyft are agreeable to one piece of Legislature’s rideshare solve
Lawmakers advanced a proposal Tuesday that addresses one item rideshare drivers and companies want settled — insurance coverage — as the Legislature seeks a solution to a rideshare standoff, but other loose ends remain before a regulatory package gets settled.
St. Paul City Council votes unanimously to boost EV-readiness
The St. Paul City Council unanimously passed a zoning proposal Wednesday that aims to prepare new surface parking lots for a future with more electric vehicles. The proposal says new surface parking lots with more than 15 spots would have to be EV capable.