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The Line: Minneapolis health dept. helping 10 corner stores boost fresh produce offerings - The state-funded initiative is part of a broader effort to combat obesity and chronic disease by improving access to healthy, fresh foods, especially in certain underserved neighborhoods.
MPR: Mpls, St. Paul school leaders worry Legislature will target their funding - Minneapolis school leaders learned last week their budget deficit for next year is larger than previously thought, and could reach $45 million.
MPR GroundLevel: The challenge of measuring local food - If you talk to people around Minnesota about what they're doing to make their communities better, it usually doesn't take very long before the topic of food comes up. Local food.
Twin Cities Streets for People: Livable Streets - This video describes the relationship between low-traffic streets and increased human connection with the use of modern animations and graphics.
MPR: More predicted to receive food aid after rule change - Beginning Monday, tens of thousands more Minnesotans will qualify for food assistance, when new guidelines go into place for the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program -- what we used to call food stamps.
Pioneer Press: St. Paul eyed next for self-serve bike sharing - An invasion of the lime green bikes may be coming to St. Paul next spring.
MPR:Bemidji college’s Ojibwe center a home for increasing number of Indian students - A unique center at Bemidji State University could become a national home for Ojibwe language and cultural education.
MPR GroundLevel: Farm-to-school food: Who’s going to chop the rutabagas? - Farm-to-school food may be available to out-state schools, but processing is another challenge.
Minn Post: A redo for the West Bank? Central LRT to bring changes - As the Central Corridor development takes off, plans for a West Bank station hope to bring important changes to the neighborhood.
Pioneer Press: Corn harvest brings in record yields in Minnesota, North Dakota - It's a pretty safe bet that more corn was harvested last week in North Dakota and Minnesota than in any other seven-day stretch in the states' histories, crop watchers say.
MPR GroundLevel: Gravel or pavement? Running costs to ground in exurbia - The yearly maintenance costs of gravel roads make them appear inefficient, until you consider the capital improvement costs associated with bituminous roads at the middle and end of their lives, which isn't always reflected in yearly maintenance figures.
Spring Grove Herald: Minnesota to cut more than $1,400 per pupil from Spring Grove Schools - This "no new taxes" stuff is turning out to be expensive for homeowners and bad for public education.
MPR: Funding K-12 education a key issue for Minnesota’s next governor - When Minnesota's next governor addresses the state's $5.8 billion budget deficit, a big part of the task will be determining how much to spend on primary and secondary education, which takes up 40 percent of the budget.
KARE: Health Partners launches online clinic - Treated and diagnosed without leaving home? Health Partners says it's now possible on its new website Virtuwell.com.
Star Tribune: Students become waste-watchers - For its efforts, Minnesota is hosting the first national Green Schools conference.
Bemidji Pioneer: Conservative policy undermines state education, research - Bemidji State University, along with its MnSCU partners, have committed to providing quality, affordable in-state educational opportunities at all levels, thanks in part to significant public investment. However, in recent years we’re seeing state support for higher education erode, putting a bigger
Daily Republic: MTI gets turbine grant - Mitchell Technical Institute will buy and share a wind turbine with Basin Electric at the PrairieWinds site near White Lake to use for student education and training with the help of a $1.17 million federal grant.
MPR: Economy in the dumps? Not on Lake Superior. - Two reports came out this week demonstrating the resurgence in shipping from Great Lakes ports, including the Port of Duluth-Superior.
PineJournal: Emmer’s plan would lead to higher business, home property taxes in greater Minnesota - One of Minnesota’s candidates for governor has offered a budget proposal that could be particularly bad for homeowners and businesses in greater Minnesota, according to a recent analysis of his plan.
Hutchinson Leader: Which candidate has the best budget plan for Minnesota? - Minnesota 2020 Fiscal Policy Analyst Jeff Van Wychen has crunched the numbers in the candidates' proposed budgets to see which ones, in his opinion, have the biggest impact on Minnesotans' pocketbooks.
MPR: Demand at rural food shelves keeps rising - Economists say the recession is technically over, but there are still plenty of signs of struggle in rural Minnesota.
Star Tribune: 79 Minnesota school districts seek levy approval