Twin Cities

A different kind of health care: New St. Paul clinic will stress culturally competent providers
Julia Joseph-Di Caprio has helped shape Twin Cities health coverage as an executive for large providers and insurers. Now she is going back to her first love, treating children and teens.
Parks officials say historic Minneapolis home gutted by fire can still be saved
The John H. Stevens House in Minneapolis has now apparently survived not only 170 years of Minnesota weather, but also repeated attempts to burn it down where it stands in wooded parkland at Minnehaha Falls Regional Park. 
Protesters camp in front of Minneapolis City Hall to fight encampment evictions
Activists set up the protest on Sunday night. By Monday morning it had grown to five tents, a couple canopies and banners, including one draped in front of a statue of former Minneapolis Mayor Hubert H. Humphrey, which read “Stop the sweeps. No evictions on stolen land.” 
New Minneapolis public safety leader lashes out on Twitter, regrets it
Cedric Alexander, who heads an office that oversees Minneapolis police and fire departments and the city’s 911 system, sent rude replies on Twitter Thursday to people asking him about police presence in downtown.
UMN researcher dives into transportation happiness
University of Minnesota professor Yingling Fan’s research shows that environmentally friendly commutes are among the happiest, although bus commutes rank low. Car commutes fit somewhere in the middle.