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One Greater Minnesota is a multi-year reporting initiative. It's brought to you by TPT’s long-running public affairs weekly program, Almanac. Its purpose is to connect Minnesotans through multi-platform stories from across the state. We want to examine how we’re changing and how much we share from region to region. Funded by The Otto Bremer Trust, with additional funding from The Blandin Foundation and The Minneapolis Foundation, these stories encourage public discourse through regional forums and digital outreach, and aim to enhance public media programming in Minnesota.




One Greater Minnesota is a multi-year reporting initiative. It's brought to you by TPT’s long-running public affairs weekly program, Almanac. Its purpose is to connect Minnesotans through multi-platform stories from across the state. We want to examine how we’re changing and how much we share from region to region. Funded by The Otto Bremer Trust, with additional funding from The Blandin Foundation and The Minneapolis Foundation, these stories encourage public discourse through regional forums and digital outreach, and aim to enhance public media programming in Minnesota.




Racial Reconciliation Efforts in Bemidji
Kaomi Goetz learned about work in Bemidji on addressing the racial divide in the community which has long experienced vast differences between Native American...
Minnesota Gears Up For the 2020 Census
Kaomi Goetz talked with state demographer Susan Brower about shifting state population.
This story was published March 30, 2018.
Enbridge Line 3 Pipeline Controversy
Kaomi Goetz reported on the pros and cons of the proposed new Enbridge Line 3 pipeline.
This story was published March 16, 2018.
A Cambodian Temple Among the Cornfields
Less than thirty miles south from St. Paul, Minnesota, rests the nation’s largest Cambodian temple. But if you didn’t know it was there, you...
What’s it like to be a DACA recipient in St. James?
Story published: February 22, 2018
Profiles of two DACA recipients from SW Minnesota.
Muslim Doctor Finds Purpose and Pushback in Rural Town
(This story aired previously on Almanac, the Twin Cities PBS public affairs program, and was funded by the Otto Bremer Trust.)
Rural America is in...