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No one word: Latino identity in Minnesota

No one word: Latino identity in Minnesota

The demographics of Minnesota are changing and the growing Latino community is an important part of that change. We collected the stories of more than 125 Latinos in Minnesota and asked them to choose five words or phrases that describe their identities.

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Rally organizers want tougher gun laws

Rally organizers want tougher gun laws

Organizers of a gun-violence awareness rally today in north Minneapolis say they want to see tougher gun laws at the state and federal levels.
by Brandt Williams

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Room packed for 'Olmstead' disability hearing

Room packed for 'Olmstead' disability hearing

More than 100 people packed a room in St. Paul on Tuesday to weigh in on a draft of the state's "Olmstead Plan," which is aimed revamping the way the state provides services for people with disabilities.
by Julie Siple

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Gays and lesbians turn fight to workplace discrimination ban

With new momentum for same-sex marriage from the Supreme Court, gays and lesbians are hoping for progress in another sphere: the workplace. In more than half the country, it's still legal to fire people because of their sexual orientation or gender identity.

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Judge blocks new Wisconsin abortion law

The bill was introduced in the Legislature on June 4, passed nine days later and signed into law Friday by Gov. Scott Walker. It took effect Monday.

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Fixing up seniors' homes to help them age in place

Fixing up seniors' homes to help them age in place

Many older Americans wind up in a nursing home not because they're sick but because they can't get through their days safely at home. Now a major research project will bring handymen, occupational therapists and nurses into the homes of 800 low-income seniors in Baltimore to test if some inexpensive fix-ups and strategies for daily living can keep them independent longer, and save millions in taxpayer dollars spent on nursing home care.

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YMCA tackles racial disparities in swimming, drowning rates

YMCA tackles racial disparities in swimming, drowning rates

African-American kids between the ages of 5 and 14 years old are three times more likely to drown than their white peers. The YMCA of the Greater Twin Cities, which runs 22 pools, has been trying to change that.
by Sasha Aslanian

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Aspen Ideas Festival: Chef Marcus Samuelsson on food and community

Aspen Ideas Festival: Chef Marcus Samuelsson on food and community

Award-winning chef Marcus Samuelsson tells an Aspen Ideas Festival audience about his Ethiopian/Swedish American immigrant experience, and the importance of food, family and community.

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How military deployment, missing parents affect families

How military deployment, missing parents affect families

Thousands of Minnesota's military families know what it's like: birthdays missed, family trips delayed and childhoods changed because dad or mom is deployed overseas.

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What Milwaukee Archdiocese documents reveal about priest sex abuse

As more victims of clergy sex abuse came forward, then-Milwaukee Archbishop Timothy Dolan oversaw a plan to pay some abusers to leave the priesthood after writing to Vatican officials with increasing frustration and concern, warning them about the potential for scandal if they did not defrock problem priests, according to documents released Monday.

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