Minnesota Legislators Focus on Housing Issues
As the 2020 legislative session kicked off, many lawmakers have put Minnesota's housing crisis under a microscope. From funding ideas and others solutions to...
Bemidji Residents Grapple With Racial Reconciliation and Healing
Story originally reported in May 2018
One Greater Minnesota reporter Kaomi Goetz looked into how Bemidji Truth and Reconciliation and others are trying to reconcile a historically...
Homelessness Is Growing In Greater Minnesota
Story published: March 2020
More than 10,000 Minnesotans are homeless, a number that is a record-high for the state and a 10-percent increase since 2015....
As Klobuchar Ends Her Presidential Campaign, Flash Back to 1998
As Sen. Amy Klobuchar announces the end of her presidential campaign, it’s instructive to look back at the beginning of her political career. The...
Minnesota Lawmakers Focus on Bipartisan Measures
For everyone who thinks politics has gotten too partisan, we have examples of lawmakers from both parties and both chambers who are working together...
People in Policy: Pahoua Hoffman Was Born in a ‘Secret Place’
Meet the Minnesota thought leader who was born in 'the most secret place on earth.'
About this segment: For several years, Almanac at the Capitol...
Get a Preview of the 2020 Legislative Session
The governor brought dessert bars to create a quintessential Minnesota welcome for the newest legislative leader, Sen. Susan Kent, a Democrat from Woodbury, who...
Remembering Jim Lehrer
PBS icon Jim Lehrer died in January at age 85. Lehrer was a talent. He was the writer of memoirs - three - and...
Wonder what it’s like inside a legalized hemp greenhouse?
The sign outside says it all: “This is not marijuana. It will not get you high. These are hemp plants.” Why the warning? Because...
What is fueling Minnesota’s growing hemp industry?
It looks like marijuana. It smells like marijuana. But this is not marijuana. "It's smokable hemp flower," explains Tim Frey from Global Organic Distro. "Inhalation...
