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Racket @racketmn.com · 19/09/2026
Review: Older, wiser, louder, and no, not always sad, the singer-songwriter enraptured a young crowd on her biggest tour yet.
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Phoebe Bridgers’ Past Looks Brighter Than Ever at Grand Casino Arena - Racket
Older, wiser, louder, and no, not always sad, the singer-songwriter enraptured a young crowd on her biggest tour yet.
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MPR News @mprnews.org · 04/09/2026
Come visit us at Dan Patch Park at the State Fair for MPR’s Made of Minnesota Day and tell @samstroozas.bsky.social why you love MPR!
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sam stroozas @samstroozas.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Have you heard about the new art installation at the corner of Fry Street and Spruce Tree Drive? There’s a wind phone for people to share their grief in. I’m working on an article about it for @mprnews.org and would love to accompany you to it for my radio story. Email sstroozas@mpr.org ☎️
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Anika Besst @anikabesst.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
A fan at Phee's home return: “She should have been MVP last year,” Ishabor Makvandi said. “She is like the epitome of a role model for this state, in my opinion. She’s very socially conscious,” he said. “We're pretty excited to have her receive our welcome, whatnot. It's like she is the Lynx.”
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Queen Phee’s return: ‘The epitome of a role model for this state’
Napheesa Collier was back on her home court after an ankle injury and surgery caused her to miss the first half of the season.
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Anika Besst @anikabesst.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
"When I picture coming back it is being in Target on my home court, surrounded by my teammates," Napheesa Collier said Monday. "There's a reason why we say we have the best fans in the world. We really do. They support us through everything."
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'Queen Phee' reigns again: The return of Lynx star Napheesa Collier
Napheesa Collier was sidelined by a left ankle injury sustained in a semifinals game last season against the Phoenix Mercury. She had double ankle surgery during the WNBA offseason.
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Anika Besst @anikabesst.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
I spoke too soon. The Lynx has MORE news. Just a day after being named a starter for the All-Star game, Olivia Miles was named the Kia WNBA Rookie of the Month for the second month in a row. Head coach Cheryl Reeve was also named WNBA Coach of the Month for June. 🏀
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Lynx's Miles wins second consecutive Rookie of the Month, Reeve named Coach of the Month
The Minnesota Lynx had an exciting mid-season week of accolades. Just a day after being named a starter for the All-Star game, Olivia Miles was named the Kia WNBA Rookie of the Month for the second mo...
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MPR News @mprnews.org · 27/06/2026
MPR News Radio Camp, in partnership with ThreeSixty Journalism, gave students a chance to report from the Special Olympics USA Games in the Twin Cities, interviewing athletes, leaders and fans and producing their own audio stories.
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MPR News Radio Camp reports on Special Olympics USA Games
Radio Camp is an annual weeklong teaching event hosted by MPR with partner ThreeSixty Journalism.
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sam stroozas @samstroozas.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
I’m so proud of @anikabesst.bsky.social!! She noticed a big gap in our newsroom — no one is dedicated to women’s sports coverage. She’s worked very hard to make MPR a better place for women’s sports fans 💜😌 follow along!
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MPR News @mprnews.org · 26/06/2026
Cheryl Reeve's first WNBA coaching job was with the Charlotte Sting in 2001. She joined the Minnesota Lynx in 2009 and 17 years later, she is being inducted into the Women’s Basketball Hall of Fame.
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‘She lives the game’: The road that led Lynx coach Cheryl Reeve to the Hall of Fame
Ahead of Minnesota Lynx head coach Cheryl Reeve being inducted into the Women’s Basketball Hall of Fame Saturday, current and former players and mentors praise her drive, passion, leadership and frien...
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sam stroozas @samstroozas.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Radio story airs at 4:20 and 5:50 on @mprnews.org. 🦋
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Minneapolis City Council votes to repeal ban on adult bathhouses, sex venues
Bathhouses were banned in the city in 1988 during the AIDS epidemic. The Minneapolis City Council voted on Thursday to repeal the ban. It now heads to Mayor Jacob Frey.
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sam stroozas @samstroozas.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
BREAKING: The adult bathhouse and sex venues ban in Minneapolis has been repealed. Members voted 9-2 in favor, with one member abstaining and one being absent. “Today is the first step and it will not be the last,” said Council member Jason Chavez.
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David Brauer @dbrauer.net · 17/06/2026
Should’ve known: MPR did this story two months ago! www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0... Deputy Mayor‘s first name beginning with “Erv” is visible in one of the clips.
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Adult bathhouses were a part of Minneapolis nightlife. Then police and panic pushed them out
Forty years after the adult bathhouse ban was passed, the city council is considering reversing it. A myriad of components led to the ban, but for several decades, public sexual spaces in Minneapolis ...
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sam stroozas @samstroozas.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Dozens spoke in favor of repealing the adult bathhouse ban during city council hearings this week in Minneapolis. They focused on public health, tourism and city history. After the hearing, Mayor Frey confirmed to MPR he’s in favor of repealing the ban, but says it’s not a top priority for him.
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Dozens speak in favor of repealing Minneapolis ban on adult bathhouses, sex venues
More than 30 people who spoke at public hearings Tuesday and Wednesday supported ordinances that would overturn a longtime ban on bathhouses and sex venues. Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey also voiced su...
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sam stroozas @samstroozas.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Over 30 people spoke at city hall today in favor of repealing the Minneapolis bathhouse ban. Council chambers were full and 50 people were in the overflow room, with a dozen waiting in the hallway. Buttons and posters were handed out. The ordinance advanced & the full council will vote next week.
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Jay Boller @jayboller.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Five years ago four unemployed journalists started this company with $4,000 combined dollars—pretty cool, if you ask me!
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Racket Racks Up 8 Trophies at the 2026 Local Journalism Awards - Racket
In today's Flyover news roundup? All we're rounding up is Racket's performance at Tuesday's Minnesota Society of Professional Journalists Page One Awards ceremony.
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MPR News @mprnews.org · 17/06/2026
Congratulations to the newsroom for taking home 26 awards at the Minnesota Society of Professional Journalists Page One Awards!! Thank you to our members and readers for supporting local news and public media. ❤️
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Racket @racketmn.com · 17/06/2026
Your buds at Racket took home eight awards from the Minnesota Society of Professional Journalists tonight, including three first-place W’s! Thanks to everyone who read and shared our stories and supported our work over the last year. We just love ya.
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sam stroozas @samstroozas.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
🧵 The Minneapolis City Council is hosting two public hearings this week as they consider repealing the longstanding adult bathhouse ban. Currently, the ban prohibits any private businesses from allowing “high-risk sexual conduct” on the premises.
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Minneapolis City Council to hear public comments on effort to repeal adult bathhouse ban
The council will host two public hearings this week concerning ordinances that would repeal the adult bathhouse ban. They were banned in 1988 during the peak of the AIDS epidemic, but advocates say af...
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MPR News @mprnews.org · 18/05/2026
The Minnesota State Fair starts in 100 days! MPR loves to cover the fair but we wanted to ask — what do YOU want to see us write about this year? A hidden gem? Your favorite weird exhibit? Comment below or email us at tell@mpr.org.
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sam stroozas @samstroozas.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
changed my whole life bc i saw an ad on campus for the student newspaper and joined. nine years later the uw la crosse communication studies department honored me with an alumni award! i am so lucky to tell stories for a living. ❤️
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sam stroozas @samstroozas.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
an all woman student newsroom?? sign me up. LOVE this story by @jcollins.bsky.social 🫡
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Jon Collins @jcollins.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Thousands of immigrants were detained in Minnesota this winter. Many detainees left behind families that depended on them, who are now asking themselves whether they can safely stay, or even safely leave. (1) share.google/LU759CxFdYgG...
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‘The damage was already done’: Minnesota immigrant families struggle after ICE deportations
The most recent data shows that about half of the 3,700 immigrants detained by federal agents during the ICE surge have been deported. Many detainees left behind families that depended on them, who ar...
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MPR News @mprnews.org · 24/04/2026
A group of Minnesota lawmakers, law enforcement and former students are banding together to prevent and penalize predatory grooming in K-12 schools. Some, including a key lawmaker, are survivors of abuse by teachers.
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‘We all know someone’: At the Capitol, a bipartisan effort to end predatory grooming
A group of Minnesota lawmakers, law enforcement and former students are banding together to prevent and penalize predatory grooming in K-12 schools. Some, including a key lawmaker, are survivors of ab...
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Jazzmine @jazzmineabriana.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
“I would always try to play football with my friends, but when I was younger, it used to be considered a man’s sport, so I could never play, so now playing flag football, I feel like I’m a role model for younger girls who have the same aspirations.” varsity.startribune.com/minnesota-vi...
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Video: Girls flag football players, Vikings advocate for fast-growing sport
At Content Capture Day hosted by the Vikings at TCO Performance Center, high school athletes across the Twin Cities gathered to create content to promote the upcoming season.
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sam stroozas @samstroozas.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
🧵 Everyone’s talking about the bathhouse ban in Minneapolis right now — but why did they actually close? Sources say bc increased police surveillance, a fear of AIDS and gentrification. In this deep dive I talk to all the key players about how closing them likely did more harm than good.
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Adult bathhouses were a part of Minneapolis nightlife. Then police and panic pushed them out
Forty years after the adult bathhouse ban was passed, the city council is considering reversing it. A myriad of components led to the ban, but for several decades, public sexual spaces in Minneapolis ...
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sam stroozas @samstroozas.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
I’ll be on @mprnews.org morning edition Wednesday at 7:20am talking about my big story that’s coming out — the history of adult bathhouses in Minneapolis, tune in! 📻
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sam stroozas @samstroozas.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
this is a shameless plug to read my bathhouse article 🫶🏻 i will have part 2 this week 🤝 www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
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As Minneapolis reconsiders its adult bathhouse ban, here’s what to know about the history
In the 1970s and 1980s, the bathhouse scene in Minneapolis was plentiful. Some activists say it’s time to update outdated language in a 1988 ordinance banning them and create an opportunity to bring them back.
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sam stroozas @samstroozas.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
for the last year and a half i’ve been following the bathhouse ban for mpr 🔎 in 1988 minneapolis made adult bathhouses illegal. the rise of hiv cases made people worried, but the queer community also lost institutions because of this fear. nearly forty years later, the city may change the ordinance.
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As Minneapolis reconsiders the adult bathhouse ban, here’s what to know about the history
In the 1970s and 1980s, the bathhouse scene in Minneapolis was plentiful. Some activists say it’s time to update outdated language in the 1988 ordinance banning them and create an opportunity to bring...
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Jon Collins @jcollins.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
A Minneapolis woman who opposed ICE woke up to a drone outside her second floor bedroom window. A man delivering groceries to a suburban distro house for mutual aid recorded a drone hovering above the house. Whose drones and why? (1) www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
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Drone sightings drove surveillance fears as ICE surged in Minnesota
Some Minneapolis residents who took to the streets to document U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids believe federal authorities used drones to record and intimidate them. Despite laws govern...
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sam stroozas @samstroozas.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
i am working on a story about the effects of the ice surge in MN on repro health and sexual health. are you a clinician who has been worried about your patients? are you someone in hiding that has missed prenatal meds, HIV treatment, etc? are you helping distribute items? dm or 📧 sstroozas@mpr.org
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sam stroozas @samstroozas.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
have you or someone you know had to find care for your pet after being detained by ICE? are you in hiding and worried about vet care? i am working on a story about what happens to pets during the ICE surge. DM me or email sstroozas@mpr.org
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sam stroozas @samstroozas.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
hello minnesota and beyond! thank you for your kind messages. it is very weird to be the news when you cover the news. i love this beautiful state and journalism, and i am hopeful for better days. but we will be forever changed bc of the last two months.
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Meet Minnesota Bathrobe Lady Sam Stroozas of MPR News | Minnesota Public Radio
Earlier this week, an unexpected and fast-moving incident unfolded in St. Paul, Minnesota involving both federal and local law enforcement. As crowds gathered and questions mounted, one of our MPR New...
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Elizabeth Shockman @eshockmanwrites.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
Seven children from this MN school district have been detained by ICE. 2 of them are still in ICE custody in TX. The district has lost track of how many parents have been taken. At just one elementary 26 parents have been detained by ICE www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
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‘Time to speak up’: In Columbia Heights, school leaders stepped in to protect families as ICE surged
As federal immigration agents descended on Columbia Heights families, the school superintendent expected to stay silent. Then federal agents came for 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos and his father, and s...
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MPR News @mprnews.org · 12/02/2026
More than 8,200 permit to carry applications were filed in the state in January. For populations worried about their safety during the ICE surge, ownership seems like a path to security.
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These sex workers in Minneapolis never thought they would own a gun. Then ICE came to town
More than 8,200 permit to carry applications were filed in the state in January. For populations worried about their safety during the ICE surge, ownership seems like a path to security.
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Steve Inskeep @steveinskeep.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
As I said on NPR this morning, @mprnews.org Minnesota Public Radio has done a fantastic job all month—has it only been a month?—covering the hardest of stories and often informing the whole country through reports heard on NPR.
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Paul Tosto @paultosto.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Latest from @mprnews.org reporter @eshockmanwrites.bsky.social and photojournalist @keremyucel.bsky.social www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
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‘I don’t have words’: 2 more kids from Liam Ramos’ Columbia Heights school taken into ICE custody
The children were taken into ICE custody after their mother was detained at a court appointment. School leaders say the mother asked them to bring the kids to the detention center because there were n...
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Paul Tosto @paultosto.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Here's today's @mprnews.org liveblog on the ICE surge in Minnesota. News happening already this morning www.mprnews.org/live-updates
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The latest on ICE in Minnesota
Live updates on ICE enforcement in Minnesota, with the latest developments and links to deeper reporting as events unfold.
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Paul Tosto @paultosto.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Our @mprnews.org liveblog is up and running Wednesday morning with news around the ICE surge in the Twin Cities. It's a good, easy way to keep up on what's happening. www.mprnews.org/live-updates
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The latest on ICE in Minnesota
Live updates on ICE enforcement in Minnesota, with the latest developments and links to deeper reporting as events unfold.
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MPR News @mprnews.org · 28/01/2026
A 2-year-old’s detention is part of an accelerating trend of what an attorney describes as ICE agents sending children and adults with legal immigration status out of state to avoid dealing with accountability from the federal court system.
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‘ICE conveyor belt’ illegally detaining, moving Minnesota children to Texas faster than courts can respond
ICE is pulling Minnesota immigrant families with legal status out of their driveways, homes and school commutes and sending them to Texas within hours — in at least two cases against a judge’s order. ...
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sam stroozas @samstroozas.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
parents, educators or students: have you or someone you know been unable to access period products, plan b, sexual health supplies, etc., bc they are in hiding from ICE or doing remote school? dm me!
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Paul Tosto @paultosto.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Long day for the @mprnews.org team. Very proud of them once again. You can find much of the day's work here: www.mprnews.org/live-updates
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The latest on ICE in Minnesota
Live updates on ICE enforcement in Minnesota, with the latest developments and links to deeper reporting as events unfold.
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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
I recommend Minnesota Public Radio live. I’m learning a lot I’m not getting elsewhere.
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Linda Holmes @lindaholmes.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
I don’t think they’re set up to direct it to a specific thing, but you can make a one-time donation to Minnesota Public Radio any time, at mpr.org.
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Home | Minnesota Public Radio
Minnesota Public Radio is one of the nation's premier public radio organizations, operating a regional network of more than three dozen stations in Minnesota and its neighboring communities.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
"License plate readers and personal data from car registrations are only supposed to be accessed for an active criminal investigation... “Following or observing or reporting on federal agencies is not a criminal activity — it's protected 1st Amendment activity...” www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
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Privacy advocates: ICE using private data to intimidate observers and activists
MPR News has looked into reports that federal agents have accessed private data to track and intimidate anti-ICE activists since the immigration crackdown surged in Minnesota in December. Privacy advo...
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Jon Collins @jcollins.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
Six weeks into the immigration enforcement surge in the Twin Cities, observers say federal agents are employing violence more frequently and with little apparent restraint against citizens and noncitizens alike. (1) www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
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Fear factor: Intimidation becomes a calling card as Twin Cities ICE surge widens
Six weeks into the immigration enforcement surge in Minnesota, observers say there are signs that federal agents are employing violence more frequently and with little apparent restraint against citiz...
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Jon Collins @jcollins.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
"Viral video shared online showed him unconscious which led many to conclude he was killed, but his sister Consuelo Henriquez confirmed to MPR News that he is alive and being held in a detention center in El Paso, Texas." Via @samstroozas.bsky.social www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
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Man detained by agents at St. Paul Speedway gas station confirmed alive
Here’s the latest Wednesday around the increased federal immigration enforcement in Minnesota and the protests against the killing of 37-year-old Renee Macklin Good in Minneapolis last week by a U.S. ...
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Jon Collins @jcollins.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
Roundup of @mprnews.org coverage of ICE protests around the Minnesota today. Just a gentle reminder that we have been covering this before national news and we will be doing it after they disappear. Support your local journalists. share.google/lFJhVHjWWdPe...
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Anti-ICE protesters gather in Powderhorn Park in Minneapolis
Thousands of people gathered in frigid temperatures on Saturday afternoon to protest ICE and the federal immigration crackdown in Minnesota.
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MPR News @mprnews.org · 20/10/2025
According to the investigative report, Eagan band teacher Brett Benson had a “pattern of predatory grooming behaviors … with numerous students” going back a decade in two school districts.
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Teacher showed ‘predatory grooming behaviors’ with Eagan High girls, police detective concluded
Minnesota has layers of state laws and procedures designed to prevent inappropriate relationships between teachers and students. The case of one former Eagan educator raises questions about how well t...
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sam stroozas @samstroozas.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
planned parenthood north central states reported a 150% increase in appts for long-acting birth control options after trump was reelected. it surpassed the number of appts when trump was first elected, and when roe v. wade was overturned. my latest ⬇️ www.mprnews.org/story/2024/1...
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Minnesotans seek long-term contraception after Trump win, worry about abortion access
While Minnesota passed the PRO Act last year protecting abortion access statewide, residents say they are still worried what the upcoming Trump-Vance administration could do.
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