Tuesday winter storm unfolds in southwest and central Minnesota

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As the Boise Inc. plant reduces production, and eliminates some 265 high-paying manufacturing jobs, what happens next? What happens when a major employer makes a decision that, at the least, leaves a quarter-billion-dollar hole in the local economy?

Derek Montgomery for MPR / Jennifer Vogel examines how the city will reinvent itself.

Last morning shift for many Boise workers

Derek Montgomery for MPR

Beth Peterson's husband took work out of town.

Pete Schultz, dir. of the regional visitors bureau

Paul Nevanen,Koochiching Co. Econ. Dev. Authority

Reinventing International Falls

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