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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.
Junior Prom May Be Canceled, But The State 4-H Showcase Goes...
Story published: September 14, 2020
This year marks the first Minnesota State Fair that Izzy O'Rourke has ever had to miss in her 17 years....
State Fair Food Tour, Minus The Fair
Sara Hayden never intended to open a pie business. But then her mother passed away.
"A friend had a bakery," Hayden said, "and my mother...
Is Arbitration A Fair Way To Decide Police Firings?
Story published: August 10, 2020.
In 2017, Duluth Police Officer Adam Huot dragged a Native American man, Brandon Houle - who passively resisted arrest - through a...
‘Med City’ and The Politics Of Mask Mandates
Story published: July 29, 2020
For weeks, Forager Brewery, a popular business in Rochester, Minn., had been able to beat the odds. Owner Annie Henderson...
Want to survive in the dairy farm business? Try robots.
Story published: July 7, 2020
David Berning looks over his 480 milking cows at the family farm, Green Waves Farm. A fourth-generation dairy farmer at...
Duluth Is Still Trying to Heal 100 Years After Lynchings
On June 15, 1920, the lynchings of three Black men - Elias Clayton, Elmer Jackson and Isaac McGhie - would stain Duluth, Minn., for...
Two Police Arrest Videos Impact the Lives of Two People from...
Story published: June 18, 2020
The three-minute video left little dispute over what happened.
A then 20-year-old Taylor Kueng, who identifies as gender non-binary (they/them/theirs), filmed...
A Detroit Lakes Resort Owner Remains Hopeful for the Summer Season
Beth Schupp is a fourth-generation resort owner in Detroit Lakes, Minn. And she's bracing for the best for the 94th summer that the Fair Hills...
A Farmer with an Eye for Regenerative Farming
Farming is hard - and not just because the hours are long and labor-intensive.
"Access to land is a challenge, machinery is expensive and finding...
A Livestock Farmer, a Pandemic and Meat Shortages
Grass-fed livestock farmer Hannah Bernhardt of Finlayson, Minn., has noticed a sudden uptick in the number of orders coming in to her direct-to-consumer business....
