Community Voices ⎸ Emotional whiplash: My big lessons on death came from giving birth
"Never have I been so close to death and birth," writes Nora Hertel, founder and executive director of Project Optimist.
Project Optimist wins 3 Minnesota journalism awards
The Minnesota Society of Professional Journalists announced award recipients on Thursday, June 26.
Find 'I Never Thought of It That Way' moments
In her book "I Never Thought of It That Way," Mónica Guzmán suggests people search for moments that take them outside of their own perspective.
Decades of effort revitalize St. Louis River
Work to mediate more than 100 years of industrial pollution and dumping in Duluth, Minn., has reached new milestones.
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COMMUNITY VOICES | Become one of the helpers in the wake of political violence
"I think we can choose together to stay soft. We can become the helpers that Mr. Fred Rogers (and his mother) recommended we look for in tragedies," writes Nora Hertel.
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The St. Cloud Area Chamber of Commerce named Williams Dingmann Family Funeral Homes the 2025 Family-Owned Business of the Year. Here’s how they’ve met the community’s shifting needs and how they accommodate families’ desires and wishes.
‘We have always existed with fire’
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More Somali therapists are entering the field, hoping to change the conversation around mental health
The generational divide between younger Somalis willing to seek out mental health services and their parents is a challenge practitioners are working to address.