Ground Level®: Amplifying Community Voices

Your story is powerful. The stories you share with others honor the complexity of our communities while forging a more equitable and vibrant future.

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We’d like to hear your thoughts and questions. Your ideas about solutions. How are your communities? What are you seeing today? And what do you want to see tomorrow?

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Should Minnesota end LGA funding now?
Should Minnesota end its method of giving financial aid to cities – the Local Government Aid or LGA program. That’s going to be the topic of debate here.
Todd County residents continued to refine priorities as part of their participation with the Initiative Foundation’s Healthy Communities Partnership.
Growth in Minnesota has been focused in what state demographer Tom Gillaspy calls a “doughnut” around the Twin Cities. Upcoming redistricting will likely focus heavily on these areas, bringing more political power to the exurbs.