Buy Nothing meets GoFundMe: How a new Eden Prairie website aims to 'revolutionize' philanthropy startribune.com/buy-nothing-me…

Some of Minnesota's largest companies have quietly closed their foundations, shifting how they give startribune.com/some-of-minnes…

“When communities lose their newspapers, they become more politicized, fewer people vote, incumbents are returned more frequently, taxpayer-supported bonding costs rise and government corruption expands.“

There were no snow emergencies declared this winter in Minneapolis or St. Paul for the first time since 2011-2012. You have to go back to 1986-87 to find a snow-emergency-free Minneapolis winter before that.

Several #journojobs openings at the Minneapolis Star Tribune, including for a photo editor and Hennepin County courts reporter. Join Minnesota's largest newsroom: recruiting2.ultipro.com/STA1013/JobBoa… #journalismjobs

Requiem for the piano: why hundreds are being hauled to the dump or chopped up for firewood and parts: startribune.com/hundreds-of-pi…

The power of print, even in the absence of print. No digital equivalent.

NEW: YWCA Minneapolis is selling its longtime Uptown fitness facility and pool to a nonprofit that will convert the space into a workforce development and job training hub. startribune.com/ywca-minneapol…

YWCA Minneapolis sells Uptown fitness facility to nonprofit creating workforce development hub startribune.com/ywca-minneapol…

Minnesota food shelves push for donations startribune.com/minnesota-food…

New: Reno @ Lake Nokomis park stand won't be ready by open, meaning The Painted Turtle could be (mostly) dry again this yr

YES, BUT: A bill at #mnleg would allow Mpls to give liquor licenses 2 park vendors that don't meet '3 walls + a roof' seating rule

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Plowable but not apocalyptic...

Thinking 5-8' metro with up to 10' northern/western suburbs, closer to a foot for parts of central and western MN

Monday changeover to rain and dreaded 'dry tongue' limits how how much snow falls at MSP

Sunday will still be a slow, slushy mess

Probability of 6' or more of snow by midnight Sunday, posted for no apparent reason

Philanthropist MacKenzie Scott has given $20 million to another 10 Twin Cities nonprofits. startribune.com/mackenzie-scot…

Hennepin County Administrator David Hough is getting a 20% pay raise that's retroactive to the start of 2024. startribune.com/hennepin-board…

Homelessness in Minnesota has declined 7% since 2018, according to new study. But with more than 10,500 Minnesotans without a home, the state still recorded its second-highest number in 30 years of tracking data. 'No one wants to see numbers that high.' startribune.com/homelessness-i…

Billionaire philanthropist MacKenzie Scott has given $18 million to nine Twin Cities nonprofits, and for most of them, it's a record donation startribune.com/mackenzie-scot…

🚨📷The Star Tribune is hiring a photo editor 📷🚨

Come work in Minneapolis with an incredible photo team.

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This is the second time Star Tribune has won the Al Nakkula Award after Jennifer Bjorhus and I won it in 2017. We spent eight months investigating the number of people in a mental health crisis killed by police, something no one else had ever tracked in Minnesota startribune.com/police-being-f…

After nearly a century on Nicollet Mall, the Downtown YWCA is selling its building to Minnetonka nonprofit, St. David's Center, which will expand its child mental health and autism programs there. startribune.com/ywca-minneapol…