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Rochester home focuses on couple's global experience
Post-Bulletin - Minnesota
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July 17, 2025
Nestled in a quiet Rochester neighborhood, the home of Bob and Cathy Ashton reflects a lifetime of intention, craftsmanship and global perspective. Lifelong Minnesotans who moved to Rochester in 1977, they built their custom home in 1984, drawing...
Hall Pass: Your Ticket to Understanding School Board Politics, Edition #165
Ballotpedia
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July 16, 2025
Welcome to Hall Pass, a newsletter written to keep you plugged into the conversations driving school board governance, the politics surrounding it, and education policy. In today’s edition, you’ll find: On the issues: The debate over teaching...
53.4% of Lewiston-Altura Public School District students meet or exceed reading MCA expectations on tests in 2023-24 school year
SE Minnesota News
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July 17, 2025
Willie Jett Commissioner of Education Minnesota Department of Education | Office of Gov. Tim WalzWillie Jett Commissioner of Education Minnesota Department of Education | Office of Gov. Tim Walz In Lewiston-Altura Public School District 53.4% of...
Minnesota Lottery Proceeds Help Protect The States Future
103.1 KFIL - Minnesota
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July 11, 2025
The Minnesota Lottery is celebrating its 35 anniversary this year. That’s a long time for people to play the games that have in some cases changed their future outlook from the money they’ve won. The lottery offers a variety of games with...
Minneapolis e-cigarette prices to increase after council approval
MinnPost - Minnesota
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July 11, 2025
Welcome to the Glean, MinnPost’s twice-daily roundup of Minnesota news. Never miss The Glean MinnPost’s twice-daily roundup of Minnesota news delivered straight to your inbox. Minneapolis e-cigarette prices will increase and retailers can expect...
Illinois students will benefit from UNI’s Neighboring State Rate beginning this fall
Illinois Business Journal
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July 17, 2025
New UNI students from Illinois will pay the same in-state tuition rate as Iowa residents The University of Northern Iowa is taking a bold step to benefit students across the Midwest by offering in-state tuition to new undergraduate students from...
Minnesota Vikings Hidden Gems: 3 Secret Superstars on the 2025 roster
The Daily Norseman - Minnesota
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July 11, 2025
After a regular season in which they didn’t have their first-round rookie quarterback at all, and head coach Kevin O’Connell made Sam Darnold a thing for the first time in Darnold’s NFL career, the Minnesota Vikings were thisclose to turning their...
Faith: Changing times, changing church
Pine and Lakes Echo Journal - Minnesota
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July 13, 2025
In June, I led a Summer Learning Series hosted by Crosslake Presbyterian Church, titled Changing Times, Changing Church. In order to better understand the church in the present moment, the course began by examining the history of the church....
An Unexpected Idea for Preserving America’s Mobile Homes
Next City
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July 17, 2025
Op-ed: A landscape historian argues that the preservation field can play a role in protecting manufactured housing by listing it in the National Register of Historic Places. This op-ed is part of a series on manufactured housing and solutions to...
Civil rights group declares 'state of emergency,' pointing at Trump admin
Fox News
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July 17, 2025
Heritage Foundation acting director for Education Policy Jonathan Butcher weighs in on the Trump administration's 'wins' in education and addresses a study showing A.I. degrades critical thinking skills on 'One Nation.' NEWYou can now listen to...
Education over incarceration: Arizona’s new path to reentry
Daily Independent - Arizona
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Arizona is the latest state to join a growing movement focused on transforming incarceration through education. Through a new Community of Practice launched by the State Higher Education Executive Officers Association and the Vera Institute of...
Minn. poison control sees boom in mushroom exposure calls
CBS 4 - Minnesota
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Updated on: July 11, 2025 / 11:17 AM CDT / CBS Minnesota How to keep your kids and yourself safe from dangerous mushrooms How to keep your kids and yourself safe from dangerous mushrooms 01:40 A warm, wet summer weather means wild mushrooms are...
Tennessee Ranks Worst in America in 2025 National Quality of Life Study
The Wolf - Connecticut
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July 17, 2025
According to a new study, Tennessee ranks last among all 50 states in America in quality of life for its residents. CNBC's annual report on the Top States for Business in the United States uses various metrics to rank the best and worst states in...
Ste. Anne, The Catholic Initiative finalize historic partnership to preserve basilica
Detroit Catholic
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July 17, 2025
Msgr. Charles Kosanke, rector of the Basilica of Ste. Anne, and Mark Pulte, chairman of the board of directors of The Catholic Initiative, shake hands after finalizing a historic partnership that will secure the future of the basilica for...
Getting over fundamentalism
Baptist News Global
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July 17, 2025
Forty years after that long hot summer of 1925 in Dayton, Tenn., where the Scopes “Monkey Trial” was held, Southern Baptist preacher Carlyle Marney vividly recounted his memories. His parents were daily readers of the Knoxville News Sentinel,...
A Wisconsin smoked fish tour, along the shores of Lake Superior
Star Tribune - Minnesota
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July 17, 2025
Minnesota’s North Shore has rugged vistas, tall cliffs and jagged shoreline. The Wisconsin side of Lake Superior is tame by comparison, but, if you want to sample smoked fish, it’s a great place to be.Along Wisconsin Hwy. 13 from Port Wing in the...
Arthur Herbert Cothran Jr,
Daily Dodge - Wisconsin
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July 17, 2025
Arthur Herbert Cothran Jr, age 94, beloved husband of Suzanne Cothran and resident of Beaver Dam, Wisconsin passed away on July 13, 2025 at Randolph Health Services and Assisted Living facility from complications from a recent stroke. Art was born...
MN Reads: "Lucky Tomorrow" by Deborah Jiang-Stein
The North 103.3 - Minnesota
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July 17, 2025
"For a luck tomorrow buy a flower today" is the message from Felma, a flower seller in Deborah Jiang-Stein's latest collection of stories titled Lucky Tomorrow. For over ten years, Jiang-Stein had been writing poetry and flash fiction with no...
Nominee says society needs church to counter ‘alarming’ trends
United Church of Christ - Ohio
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July 12, 2025
A standing ovation honored a United Church of Christ nominee after she addressed the church’s General Synod Friday night, July 11, in Kansas City. Receiving the applause was the Rev. Shari Prestemon, nominated for Associate General Minister and...
Minnesota GOP questions $430,000 bill for Gov. Walz's Congressional hearing preparation
KARE 11 - Minnesota
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July 10, 2025
Republicans in Congress called several Democratic governors to the Capitol last month. ST PAUL, Minn. — When Governor Tim Walz testified before Congress last month, it cost taxpayers hundreds of thousands to prepare for. $430,000 is the bill to be...