We visited nine cities from coast to coast in the past eight weeks – even more, counting Ely and New Ulm, Minn. None of the others made an...
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2019. “The right of the people to keep and bear Arms shall not be infringed.”
It was 8:30am on a hot Saturday morning in the Embassy Suites lobby in Austin, Texas, and Stuart Maue had already put together a sophisticated...
Small towns matter
Earlier this year, President Trumps named Baltimore “a disgusting, rat and rodent infested mess," in a racist attack on Democratic Rep. Elijah...
The future of journalism is local and collaborative
“Most local newspapers will not survive in the next 10 years or so,” Dean Baquet, The New York Times’ executive editor told us earlier this week. “I...
It takes an app and a family to run a farm
As we spent a couple of days in rural southern Minnesota, the scale and size of what Minnesotans call “an average family farm” surprised me: 180...
When trade wars set the price, farmers can only hope for a late frost
The Great Minnesota Get-Together is definitely a unique experience, no matter your age, background or expectations. “All you can drink” milk for $2...