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Innocence Lost: Reconciliation, accountability stressed as Children’s Theatre suits settled

Innocence Lost: Reconciliation, accountability stressed as Children’s Theatre suits settled

Survivors of childhood sexual assault during the 1970s and 1980s at Children’s Theatre Company said they would try to work with the theater to restore trust and ensure such abuse never happens again. One key survivor said she was ending her boycott of CTC.
by Marianne Combs

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Playwright Lauren Yee’s work returns to the Twin Cities in a story about coming home

Playwright Lauren Yee’s work returns to the Twin Cities in a story about coming home

Yee is no stranger to the Minneapolis-St. Paul arts scene. Her career as a playwright began in Minneapolis, and over about a year-and-a-half stretch, four of her plays will have been staged in Twin Cities theaters.
by Tiffany Bui

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Duluth, Minneapolis push for state’s first fees on disposable bags

Duluth, Minneapolis push for state’s first fees on disposable bags

Minneapolis’ ordinance would charge a nickel for all disposable bags. Duluth’s would only apply to plastic bags. The proposals come two years after state lawmakers blocked the efforts of Minneapolis and other cities to impose outright bans on plastic bags.
by Dan Kraker

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Time to fall back? One Minnesota company gets rid of clocks instead

Time to fall back? One Minnesota company gets rid of clocks instead

For decades, a crew of nearly two dozen people fanned out across 3M’s 409-acre campus, and worked in 12-hour shifts twice a year to set clocks back in the fall and ahead in the spring.
by Tim Nelson

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New tax credit for ag land might help rural schools increase funding

New tax credit for ag land might help rural schools increase funding

Schools in rural districts have struggled to pass property tax increases to pay for new schools at least in part because farmers have often opposed big property tax increases on farm land. A new tax credit will significantly reduce the share farmers pay, and rural schools hope the change will make it easier to replace aging buildings.
by Dan Gunderson

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Nonprofit: Let's get the guns out of the hands of domestic abusers

Nonprofit: Let's get the guns out of the hands of domestic abusers

Getting guns out the hands of domestic abusers, by working with city and county leaders, is the next step of a St. Paul-based nonprofit aimed at reducing domestic violence, the group’s director said Thursday.
by Tarkor Zehn

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