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• Living side by side and looking to connect
  Luisa Trapero is a rarity, an elected Latino official in outstate Minnesota. She'd like to help other Latinos take steps to bridge gaps between Latino and white cultures that often exist side by side.December 12, 2012
• Language 'No. 1' in bridging Melrose divide
  If a handful of people crossing the cultural divide make a big difference in a community, Peggy Stokman in Melrose is one of them.December 12, 2012
• Cultures grow on each other in community garden
  Jaime Villalaz and Lyle Danielson didn't know each other until they started working on a community garden that is helping Long Prairie Latino residents build a farmers cooperative and bridging a town racial gap.December 12, 2012
• At center of immigration debate, journalist Jose Antonio Vargas wants to 'Define American'
  Immigration reform is likely to be in the national spotlight early next year, as the Obama administration and Congress seek to fix a system that's widely viewed as broken. The people at the center of the debate -- some who have been living and working in the U.S. without legal permission for years -- are increasingly making their voices heard. One is a widely known former journalist who will be speaking in Minneapolis tonight.December 12, 2012
• Event raises $100K plus for NE Minn. food shelves
  Food shelves in northern Minnesota will benefit from an event Tuesday evening hosted by Minnesota's incoming Senate Majority Leader, Tom Bakk.December 11, 2012
• How to revitalize rural America
  Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said last week that rural America is "becoming less and less relevant" after an election where Democrats won despite heavily Republican rural districts. We'll talk about ideas to revitalize rural America.The Daily Circuit, December 11, 2012
• Little War on the Prairie
  It was 150 years ago this month that the U.S.-Dakota war ended with one of the most noteworthy events in Minnesota history -- the hanging of 38 Dakota men in Mankato. We tell the story from the perspective of John Biewen, a Mankato native who heard next to nothing about the war during his childhood there.December 11, 2012
• Merck Foundation stops giving to Boy Scouts
  Merck's charitable foundation has stopped giving money to the Boy Scouts of America.December 10, 2012
• Minn. gay couple in '71 marriage case still joined
  The U.S. Supreme Court denied Jack Baker and Michael McConnell the right to marry in the early 1970s. It took the court another 40 years to revisit same-sex marriage rights, and Baker and McConnell - still together in Minneapolis - are alive to see it.December 10, 2012
• In some ways, what happened after Sandy was even uglier
  A community in decline suffers a calamity, and what happens? People make it worse.December 10, 2012
• 1,800 expected at Mpls. event for homeless
  Hennepin County officials expect more than 1,800 people to attend the 14th Project Homeless Connect at the Minneapolis Convention Center on Monday.December 9, 2012
• Where non-Latinos and Latinos cross paths in rural Minn.
  Across Minnesota, from a deli in Northfield to a YMCA in Worthington, stories show a shifting portrait of the state. We asked sources in our Public Insight Network about new connections between Latinos and non-Latinos.December 6, 2012
• Minnesota same-sex marriage activists gather to plan strategy
  Same-sex marriage supporters in Minnesota gathered on Saturday to talk about the best ways to translate their defeat of the marriage amendment into other ways of advancing their goals, including making same-sex marriage legal.December 3, 2012
• Pot legalization keys: Strategy, timing state by state
  A once-unfathomable notion, the lawful possession and private use of pot, becomes an American reality this week when Washington State's law goes into effect.December 3, 2012
• Inside a bully beats the heart of a certain kind of chicken
  The animal world may teach us everything we need to know about each other.December 3, 2012

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