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The Inspired volunteer calendar offers many opportunities to make a difference.
January 18, 2025
Michelle Horovitz (right), director of Appetite for Change, helped make egg rolls during a cooking workshop with teenagers at a church in Minneapolis, Minn., on Tuesday, September 17, 2013. A former public defender and lifelong foodie, Michelle Horovitz is taking an entrepreneurial approach to expanding Appetite for Change, the nonprofit she started in 2011 to help address the "food desert" in north Minneapolis. Also picture is Princess Ann Nelson (center) and De'Arreon Robinson (who works with
St. Paul

Twin Cities’ first video game music orchestra takes the stage Friday night

The new Twin Cities Gamer Symphony Orchestra will perform songs from popular games from the early 2000s such as “Halo” and more at a free concert Friday night in St. Paul.
January 17, 2025
Rochester

Neighbors band together to preserve Rochester’s most storied neighborhood

Amid a wave of redevelopment, residents are taking a stand to protect historic Pill Hill.
January 17, 2025
Rochester

Rochester to honor first woman elected in the area with statue

A statue of Amelia Witherstine is planned for downtown later this year as part of a project to honor women’s contributions to the city’s public life.
January 16, 2025
Inspired

Worthington’s first openly gay school board member values ‘a strong community’

Eric E. Parrish says it’s about “identifying the voices of those who aren’t sitting at the table and lifting them up so they can have opportunities to be heard.”
January 16, 2025
News & Politics

Minnesota tribe to donate $6 million for physical health programs for Native children

The Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community on Thursday announced IndigeFit Kids, a three-year philanthropic campaign.
January 16, 2025
St. Paul

New ramps mean new accessibility at Como Park Conservatory

Como’s Sunken Garden is reopening with new wheelchair ramps just in time for flower shows.
January 14, 2025
Politics

Brooks: Small change in law makes big difference for Minnesotans with cancer

Wigs are now free to cancer patients, thanks to a Minnesota law that changed for the better on Jan. 1.
AuthoredJennifer Brooks
January 11, 2025
Inspired

How you can help

The Inspired volunteer calendar offers many opportunities to make a difference.
January 11, 2025
Inspired

What matters more for longevity: Genes or lifestyle?

The advice of centenarians doesn’t necessarily apply.
January 9, 2025
In this Aug. 23, 2018 photo, 117-year-old Julia Flores Colque plays with "Chiquita," one of the family pet dogs, while sitting outside her home in Sacaba, Bolivia. Flores Colque, who never married or had children, enjoys the company of her dogs, cats and rooster.
Inspired

How you can help

The Inspired volunteer calendar offers many opportunities to make a difference.
January 4, 2025
Greater Minnesota

MSU Moorhead tries to reverse declines by luring local grads with free tuition

As Moorhead has boomed, the city’s biggest university has shrunk. City and university leaders aim to change that.
January 3, 2025
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