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Rochester Has Surpassed Twin Cities as State's Job Growth Engine
In recent months, the Rochester area's job growth rate has been the highest in the state and now the number of jobs created over the past year is even higher than the total for the entire Twin Cities area.
Undecided student becomes nurse to work with Mayo team that saved her life
ROCHESTER, Minn. — She arrived in Rochester last month to an empty apartment. “Yeah, very empty,” Ashlyn Nystuen says. Just a ceiling fan and her brother’s college futon occupy the main living area. “It’s a work in progress,” Ashlyn says with a laugh. But Ashlyn...
The wife of Republican Wisconsin US Senate candidate Hovde takes aim at female Democratic incumbent
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The wife of Republican U.S. Senate candidate Eric Hovde is taking center stage in her husband’s campaign in the days after he secured the party nomination, directly attacking Democratic Sen. Tammy Baldwin in a television ad released Thursday about single mothers. The race between...
What to know about Tim Walz’s 1995 drunken driving arrest and how he responded
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Now that Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz is Vice President Kamala Harris ‘ running mate, his drunken driving arrest from 1995 in Nebraska — long before he entered politics — is getting renewed scrutiny. Walz was a 31-year-old teacher when he was stopped the night of Sept. 23, 1995, near Chadron, Nebraska. He […]
9 Deaths on Minnesota Roads in 6 Days
Brooklyn Center, MN (KROC-AM News) - The death toll on Minnesota roadways continues to mount. A day after six people perished in crashes on roadways throughout the state, including two young children in a multi-vehicle wreck in the northern Minnesota highway construction zone, police in Brooklyn Center are reporting a fatal motorcycle crash. The deadly incident was reported about 2 PM Thursday.
Jewish Democrats tout Harris-Walz commitment to Israel, fighting antisemitism ahead of convention
A major Jewish Democratic group is stepping up efforts to engage Jewish voters in crucial swing states ahead of the Democratic National Convention in Chicago next week. In a 30-second digital ad, exclusively shared with the Forward and set to go online Thursday, the Jewish Democratic Council of America’s PAC highlights Vice President Kamala Harris...
Developers of stalled Minnesota copper-nickel mine plan studies that may lead to significant changes
The developers of a long-delayed copper-nickel mining project in northeastern Minnesota announced Wednesday that they plan to conduct a series of studies over the next year on potential ways to improve environmental safeguards and make the mine more cost- and energy-efficient, which could lead to significant changes to the design.The plan is for a $1 billion open-pit mine near Babbitt and a processing plant near Hoyt Lakes that would be Minnesota's first copper-nickel mine and produce minerals necessary for the clean energy economy. It is a 50-50 joint venture between Swiss commodities giant Glencore and Canada-based Teck Resources. The project...
Tim Walz’s China ties fuel GOP attacks he’ll go soft on foreign adversary
Republicans are doubling down on accusations that Gov. Tim Walz’s (D-MN) long history with China presents political liabilities for the Democratic vice presidential candidate to take on the foreign adversary should he be elevated to the White House. As a 1989 college graduate and Army National Guard member, Walz embarked to China through a Harvard […]
Police documents reveal new details on Walz’s 1995 DUI arrest
Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Walz’s congressional campaign of 2006 repeatedly made false statements about the details of his 1995 arrest for drunk and reckless driving. CNN KFile reporter Andrew Kaczynski reports.
MN Reads: "Twin Ports Trains" by Tony Dierckins and Jeff Lemke
"We got it up to full steam last year... and pulled into the station in June," says author Tony Dierckins of finalizing and publishing Twin Ports Trains: The Historic Railroads of Duluth & Superior 1870-1970. For the last several years, Dierckins and co-author Jeff Lemke navigated their way through busy schedules and Covid to get the book on the shelf earlier this month.
The political tide turns in Wisconsin
The big news out of Wisconsin’s primary Tuesday was the defeat of two ballot measures crafted by Republican legislators that would have hamstrung the governor’s ability to hand out federal emergency aid. Farmers, small business owners and child care providers who were rescued from bankruptcy by millions of dollars in federal relief funds distributed by […]
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