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Deena Winter distinguished herself with investigative and enterprise reporting across a broad swath of the Minnesota news landscape

Minneapolis teachers and Education Support Professionals (ESP) entered the second week of their strike. Spirits remain high on the various picket lines all over the city. 

I was invited to appear on FOX News last night for a brief segment to discuss the January 14 sentencing of Montez Terriel Lee, Jr. The segment was tentatively bumped to this evening. I am posting this for viewers in the event that the segment runs tonight. The relevance of the story is enhanced by the fact that sentencing judge Wilhelmina 'Mimi' Wright is now reportedly on the shortlist of

Minnesota’s economic recovery in 8 charts By Todd Epp (Article by Rilyn Eischens, The Minnesota Reformer. The article first appeared here in the TMR.) Minnesota’s economy is making progress, but still has a ways to go to reach pre-pandemic levels. The recession brought on by COVID-19 was like nothing the state or nation had ever seen, with some of the highest rates of unemployment on record — and the economic recovery seems to be equally unusual so far, economists say. Metrics like unemployment and labor force participation have stagnated, while job growth has been i...