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No clear strategy to fund ballooning need for senior care

No clear strategy to fund ballooning need for senior care

The aging of the baby-boom generation will cause Minnesota's spending on care for older residents to balloon by as much as 70 percent in a little more than a decade. And there's no consensus on how to address the need.
by Peter Cox

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Taxpayers helped fund 'Tonight Show' Super Bowl broadcast from Minnesota

Taxpayers helped fund 'Tonight Show' Super Bowl broadcast from Minnesota

Jimmy Fallon sprinkled Minnesota references throughout his "Tonight Show" remote broadcast after the 2018 Super Bowl. Minnesota gave the show almost $267,000 despite some misgivings about the subsidy.
by Brian Bakst

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Once-threatened peregrines flying high across Minnesota

Once-threatened peregrines flying high across Minnesota

In less than 20 years' time, the peregrine falcon has bounced back from "endangered to fully recovered." Staff and volunteers at Tettegouche State Park just wrapped up their peregrine banding program for the year.
by Euan Kerr

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Assaulted in 'safest place,' state employee works to change gov't response

Assaulted in 'safest place,' state employee works to change gov't response

Safia Khan was at a conference training state employees on how to respond to sexual assault victims when she was assaulted by a Department of Corrections staffer. Now she works in the department and wants to improve a system that she says failed her.
by Briana Bierschbach

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