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Minnesota News

MPR News is your go-to source for Minnesota news and stories.

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Minneapolis ranked 8th in energy efficiency

Minneapolis ranked 8th in energy efficiency

An environmental non-profit has ranked the city of Minneapolis eighth in the country for energy efficiency, while offering suggestions to improve the city’s performance.
by Jon Collins

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Poverty in St. Paul on the rise

Poverty is climbing in St. Paul,  and at a much higher rate than in the rest of the state. In the span of just about one decade — from 1999 to 2010 — 24,000 residents of the city fell into poverty. Today, the total number of St. Paulites living at or below the poverty line…
by Laura Yuen

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Star Tribune editor heads to Houston

Star Tribune editor heads to Houston

Star Tribune editor Nancy Barnes is leaving the paper to lead the newsroom of the Houston Chronicle. Publisher Mike Klingensmith says the Star Tribune has begun a search for a replacement, and will consider both internal and external candidates. Barnes has led the Star Tribune’s newsroom for the past six years. In 2013, the paper Read more →
by Martin Moylan

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Can mass shootings be stopped?

Can mass shootings be stopped?

Monday’s violence marked the sixth or seventeenth, depending on how you tally the data, mass shooting since the violence at Accent Signage in Minneapolis where a man shot six people before killing himself last September. Details about Monday’s killing spree continue to emerge. “As the investigation into Monday’s mass shooting at the Washington Navy Yard…
by Michael Olson

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Boise to sell to PCA, impact on International Falls plant uncertain

Boise to sell to PCA, impact on International Falls plant uncertain

Boise Inc. is expected to sell to Illinois-based Packaging Corporation of America by the end of the year, potentially affecting the paper mill in International Falls. The city’s mayor Bob Anderson said this could be a positive turn for the plant, which is in the midst of significant layoffs.
by Jennifer Vogel

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Do you pressure your doctor for antibiotics?

Antibiotics by Michael Mortensen via Flickr “Health officials are asking for the public’s help in combating antibiotic-resistant microbes,” writes MPR News reporter Lorna Benson. “Nationwide there have been an estimated 9,300 cases annually of carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae, known as CRE, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. “Minnesota has so far tallied 93…
by Michael Olson

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