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Cathy Wurzer
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Seeing problems on the horizon, counties seek delay in buffer law
Minnesota county officials want to delay the state's new buffer law. The law, set to take effect in November 2017, requires strips of permanent vegetation on edge of streams, lakes and some ditches.
At year's end, patients surge into hospitals and clinics for free care
High-deductible health plans have many Americans scrambling for medical appointments of all kinds during the end of the year. That's because if they've satisfied their out-of-pocket maximum, the care is free.
Guled Omar: The path to ISIS and the story you haven't heard
Federal prosecutors have deemed him unfixable and irredeemable. He got the harshest sentence of any of the nine Twin Cities men who tried to join ISIS. But Omar's story is much more complicated than that.