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Top-grade venues and companies providing live theater, orchestral music, opera, ballet, and modern dance have sustained and enhanced the reputation of Minnesota as a premier arts mecca in Mid-America.

Time’s review made only passing references to trademark Greater Minnesota features such as Rochester’s Mayo Clinic, the Iron Range/Duluth mining and shipping complex and the state's rich farmscape.

Beyond the megatrends and demographics, Minnesota’s politics and policies often have been shaped by the personalities on the stage.

Part V: Fifty years after the Time magazine cover story touting Minnesota as the nation’s model state, it’s time to reassess.

Jake Dickert would still like to wait until six weeks into the season before there are any rankings of college football teams. That being said, the Washington State coach acknowledges t...

Part IV: Fifty years after the Time magazine cover story touting Minnesota as the nation’s model state, it’s time to reassess.

Part IV: Fifty years after the Time magazine cover story touting Minnesota as the nation’s model state, it’s time to reassess.

It was 50 years ago this Sunday that Minnesota received a journalistic “atta-boy” of epic proportions, with a Time magazine cover story that heralded “The Good Life in …

Part III: Fifty years after the Time magazine cover story touting Minnesota as the nation’s model state, it’s time to reassess.

Fifty years after the Time magazine cover story touting Minnesota as the nation's model state, it's time to reassess.