Health Care

Drug addict holds syringe

Safe injection sites are successful internationally, so why did Minneapolis say no?

BY: and - January 15, 2020

In 2019, the city of Minneapolis recorded more than 1,300 drug overdoses, the most in at least a dozen years. At the start of that dismal year, Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey rejected proposals to open safe places for addicts to use drugs under medical supervision, which advocates say could have contained the 2019 overdose epidemic.  […]

Brentton Holzer and his mother Stacie Zamora

The most in demand jobs in Minnesota don’t pay enough to live here

BY: - January 14, 2020

Of the 10 most in-demand jobs in Minnesota right now, only half pay the $15 an hour needed to meet the basic costs of living in the state.  And that’s assuming you’re single, with no kids or anyone else to support, don’t have student debt, can find a cheaper-than-average home, and can get 40 hours […]

Nope, that’s not how that government program works

BY: - January 13, 2020

Everyone who qualifies for it can get it.