Strib Voices publishes a mix of commentary online and in print each day. To contribute, click here . ••• By my measure, the gloom that has settled this month into the psyches of a sizable share of Minnesota democracy lovers is uncommonly deep.

Bleu Duck Kitchen owners Jennifer Lester and Erik Kleven behind the oyster bar in the restaurant’s kitchen in Rochester. Three years after they began cultivating thousands of their own oysters off the coast of Maine,

Minnesota, and Pennsylvania — have stopped publicly funding these anti-abortion centers, according to Equity Forward, an abortion rights group. Abortion access in Maine is less restrictive than ...

CNN early votes were on a big screen at a Vice President Kamala Harris and running mate Minnesota Governor Tim Walz election night party at Howard University in Washington, D.C., on Nov. 5 ...

As restaurant-goers tried something new in the new year, the first weeks of 2025 also brought a wave of notable restaurant closures. Here's a list of the latest restaurant openings and closings in Minnesota:

A memo footnote said it should not be “construed to impact Medicare or Social Security benefits” but did not mention Medicaid.

Faith leaders nationwide are pushing back against President Donald Trump's assertion that churches are no longer considered safe spaces for undocumented immigrants. The Department of Homeland Security has rescinded expanded guidelines set by the Biden administration that thwarted arrests in so-called sensitive areas - including churches,

Vice President JD Vance was required to cast a tie-breaking vote after three Republicans voted against Hegseth.

Ferris State head coach Bob Daniels announced last week that he’ll retire at the end of this season. Ferris State AD Steve Brockelbank told The Big Rapids Pioneer this week that the school has

As Donald Trump returns to the White House, he has built the most formidable foundation of Republican electoral strength since the Ronald Reagan era in the 1980s.

Until the order, which Trump signed the same day he was inaugurated as the 47th president, the U.S. government has, at least the late 1800s, considered the child of any immigrant born on U.S. soil an automatic citizen, even to a mother in the United States illegally.

Attorneys general from 22 states sued Tuesday to block President Donald Trump’s move to end a century-old immigration practice known as birthright citizenship guaranteeing that U.S.-born children are citizens regardless of their parents’ status.