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Growth slows in demand for food help
Food stamps, food shelves and subsidized school lunches all grew to new highs in Minnesota in 2012, but the pace slowed from previous years.
Now that we're officially into the winter, we wondered how Minnesota's birds are faring — the ones that stick around.
Minnesota Sounds & Voices: Dean McFarlane, last in a line of stone carvers
Dean McFarlane is a 10th-generation master stone carver. His great-grandfather started the Minneapolis-based family stone carving company in 1916. But the line ends with McFarlane: There are no family members waiting in the wings to become master stone carvers.
Rock of ages
The McFarlane line of master stone carvers ends with Dean; there's not a family member waiting in the wings to carry on the craft.
Tribal protest echoes through Paul Bunyan Mall, supports hunger strike in Canada
More than one hundred tribal members gathered inside the Paul Bunyan Mall in Bemidji Wednesday to stage a "flash mob" drum and dance circle. The event was organized as a show of support for a Canadian tribal chief who is on a hunger strike in Ottawa, Ontario.