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For struggling Minnesota Muslims, help is a phone call away
Two sisters, Sumaya and Fadumo Hassan, started a mental-health helpline offering callers counseling and referrals to other resources. They’ve addressed questions on how to deal with bullying, anti-Islam sentiment and issues of identity.
‘How can we prevent the heart from breaking?’ White Earth reviews opioid overdose deaths
In a search for solutions to its ongoing opioid crisis, White Earth tribal officials and outside researchers looked deep into the medical history and the personal lives of a handful of people who died as a result of opioid overdose on the White Earth Reservation. What they found are some deep seated risk factors driving opioid addiction, and a framework for efforts to prevent future deaths.
Twin Metals submits formal plans for mine near the Boundary Waters
The proposed underground copper-nickel mine near Ely in the Superior National Forest now begins a long environmental review and permitting process. Twin Metals opponents have called on Gov. Tim Walz to block the project.
Hundreds in favor of impeachment protest in St. Paul, but others are opposed
As in the rest of the country, Minnesotans differ over whether President Trump should be impeached ahead of the vote on two articles of impeachment in the U.S. House.