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The story behind Minnesota’s weirdly shaped northern border
WEBFeb 4, 2014 · John Mitchell’s 1755 map showed Lake of the Woods as roughly egg-shaped. In 1798, British explorer David Thompson proved that the northernmost source of the Mississippi was south of Lake of the ...
Does Minnesota law have a ‘viability’ threshold limiting abortion?
WEBJul 12, 2022 · Wade outlined a right to abortion in the U.S. Constitution, but it did say states could limit abortion in the third trimester of a pregnancy. The following year, Minnesota lawmakers enacted some ...
How Walz won Minnesota governor's race against Jensen in charts …
WEBNov 9, 2022 · DFL Gov. Tim Walz beat GOP candidate Scott Jensen in Tuesday’s election by 7.7 percentage points, a smaller margin than his 11.4-point victory in 2018. Nonetheless, it was considered a major ...
It’s important to hear and learn from youth experiencing
WEBJul 19, 2021 · Black and Native American youth are at a disproportionately high risk of homelessness. Poor education helps produce homelessness. More than half of the survey’s respondents (10 out of 16) who ...
What we know about abortions in Minnesota - MinnPost
WEBMay 3, 2022 · The most recent report came out in 2021 and covers 2020. The number of abortions induced in Minnesota has declined dramatically over the years, from more than 19,000 in 1980 to fewer than 10,000 ...
MEA weekend: Explaining a distinctly Minnesotan tradition
WEBOct 16, 2019 · Here, many students, parents and educators look forward to the third Thursday and Friday of October as a much-needed break without the added stress of an actual holiday. But MEA break exists for a ...
The Stillwater prison was Minnesota’s first - MinnPost
WEBby Anna Stitt 12/01/2020. Minnesota State Prison, Stillwater, ca. 1895. Photo by Briol Studio. Credit: Courtesy of the Minnesota Historical Society. Minnesota Correctional Facility-Stillwater ...
A brief history of Minnesota’s Mesabi Iron Range - MinnPost
WEBMay 26, 2020 · The Mesabi Iron Range’s history as a mining district begins well before ore was unearthed. More than two billion years ago, an era of mountain building known as the Algoman orogeny occurred ...
In operation for nearly 80 years, Stillwater prison’s ... - MinnPost
WEBApr 5, 2021 · A cornerstone of the prison labor system for almost eighty years, the binder twine factory at the Minnesota State Prison employed thousands of inmates who produced over a billion pounds of cordage ...