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Almost half of Minnesota counties lost population this decade (plus trivia question)

Almost half of Minnesota counties lost population this decade (plus trivia question)

The list of Minnesota counties losing population went up, according to the 2010 census release. What had been a phenomenon of western and southern border areas in the 1990s expanded to toward the Twin Cities area.
by Dave Peters

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10-year map masks population shift

10-year map masks population shift

The 2010 census shows Minnesota’s population growth in all the usual places — the suburban and ex-urban collar around the Twin Cities metro area. But that’s for the past 10 years. If you look more closely at just the past three or four years, the pattern has shifted.
by Dave Peters

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Central Minnesota launches ambitious 2-year planning effort

Some 200 people in central Minnesota launched an ambitious two-year planning effort on Wednesday, paid for by an $825,000 federal grant and involving work on housing, transportation, economic development and land use.
by Dave Peters

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