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Minnesota West announces hiring of new dean, provost
Radio Works - Minnesota
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June 25, 2025
Minnesota West Community & Technical College last month welcomed Daniel de Moraes as the new Dean of Liberal Arts and K–12 Partnerships. With over a decade of experience in faculty leadership, academic program development, and statewide equity...
Minnesota Through the Ages: A Guide to Museums
Minnesota Monthly
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June 25, 2025
Minnesota is a state rich in culture and history, offering a diverse array of museums and attractions that reflect its unique heritage and artistic spirit. From the tranquil shores of the Mississippi River to the bustling streets of Minneapolis, a...
Minnesota farmer sees economic and environmental benefits to side-dressing corn
Brownfield Ag News
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June 25, 2025
News Minnesota farmer sees economic and environmental benefits to side-dressing corn June 25, 2025 By Mark Dorenkamp Filed Under: Crops, Minnesota, News A southeast Minnesota farmer is not reducing fertilizer use despite tight margins. Rob Tate of...
Green Visions: Minnesota Million Project
The North 103.3 - Minnesota
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July 2, 2025
At 6pm on Thursday, July 3rd, Dovetail Cafe is the location for an event for the Minnesota Million Project - an effort to reforest one million acres of state land in the next two decades. The free event (hosted by Cafe Sci Twin Ports) will be led...
ICE deports immigrant awaiting prosecution in fatal Minneapolis crash
Star Tribune - Minnesota
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July 2, 2025
An undocumented immigrant charged with killing a woman while driving drunk in Minneapolis last year has been deported to his native country before his fate in a Minnesota courtroom could play out. “U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement removed...
National TV news largely failed to connect the record-breaking eastern U.S. heat dome to climate change
Media Matters For America
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Media Matters searched transcripts in the SnapStream video database for all original episodes of ABC’s Good Morning America and World News Tonight, CBS’ Mornings and Evening News, and NBC’s Today and Nightly News, as well as all original...
Minnesota not among 14 states to have EV charger funding restored
KARE 11 - Minnesota
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June 25, 2025
Sixteen states filed suit against the administration for restoration of the funding. A federal judge ruled Minnesota did not provide enough evidence of harm. SACRAMENTO, Calif. — A federal judge Tuesday ordered the Trump administration to release...
Talking agricultural research with University of Minnesota
University of Minnesota Twin Cities
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Our state and our world depend on bountiful and safe food sources. At the same time, the nation’s agriculture industry faces unprecedented pressures, from shifting markets to disease concerns for both crops and livestock. Brian Buhr, dean of the...
California misleadingly markets farm-generated methane as environmentally friendly—a falsehood now exported nationwide
Prism
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July 2, 2025
Take California’s Highway 5 two hours north of Los Angeles and veer right onto Highway 99. In 50 miles, you’ll reach Pixley, a small town of about 4,000 with one doctor’s office, no grocery store, and nearly 140,000 bovine neighbors. It’s only...
Funding uncertain for electric vehicle charging stations on Minnesota highways
Minnesota Public Radio News
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July 2, 2025
NINA MOINI: There's a special kind of dread that comes from driving a car that's about to run out of gas or power. That may be why electric vehicle advocates say highways need to have more EV charging stations for people who make that switch to...
US Northeast sees record tick season as climate crisis sparks arachnid boom
The University of Rhode Island
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July 2, 2025
Ticks have been flourishing recently in the United States. This year, as compared to recent years, there has been an increase in the reported number of blacklegged ticks, the number of such ticks that carry Lyme disease and visits to the emergency...
June was an active month for tornadoes in Minnesota
Go Watertown - South Dakota
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July 2, 2025
July 2, 2025 ST. PAUL, Minn. — June lived up to its reputation as the peak month for tornadoes in Minnesota. Pete Boulay of the State Climatology Office says there more last month than all of 2024. The preliminary count shows 39 tornadoes in June,...
4th Of July 2025 Gas Prices Across Minnesota, Iowa, South Dakota
97.3 KKRC - South Dakota
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July 2, 2025
Travelers planning Independence Day road trips across Minnesota, Iowa, and South Dakota will see some higher gas prices. GasBuddy says the national average for a gallon of gas will be ticking up just a bit to around $3.17 a gallon on July 4....
Kraken announce schedule for truncated 2025-26 season
Yakima Herald-Republic - Washington State
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The Kraken's breakneck Season 5, condensed by the NHL’s return to the Winter Olympics, will kick off at Climate Pledge Arena against the Anaheim Ducks on Thursday, Oct. 9 at 7 p.m. The Kraken will host the Vegas Golden Knights that Saturday, then...
In Chicago, a Landmark Environmental Justice Bill Inches Toward Passage
Inside Climate News
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July 2, 2025
CHICAGO—Cheryl Johnson’s perspective on the Hazel Johnson Cumulative Impacts Ordinance is that it’s been a long time coming. It’s not just the two years that community groups collaborated with the city’s revived Department of Environment to craft...
48 tornadoes documented in Minnesota this year
KFGO - North Dakota
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July 1, 2025
ST. PAUL, Minn. (KFGO) – It has been a busy season for emergency managers and storm chasers so far in Minnesota. The State Climatology Office says the preliminary tornado count through the end of June was 48. That surpassed the average number of...
Minnesota Holds Its Ground Among 2025’s Best Cities for Biking
Minnesota Monthly
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June 24, 2025
Minnesota continues to shine as a top destination for cyclists in the 2025 PeopleForBikes City Ratings, a data-driven report ranking nearly 3,000 global cities on bikeability. Both Minneapolis and St. Paul made the top 10 list of large U.S. cities...
California rolls back its landmark environmental law
San Francisco Examiner - California
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- California leaders on Monday rolled back a landmark law that was a national symbol of environmental protection before it came to be vilified as a primary reason for the state's severe housing shortage and homelessness crisis....
Minnesota Legislature 2025 Recap
JD Supra - California
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June 24, 2025
After decisive victories by Republicans at both the state and federal level in the 2024 general election, political prognosticators and pundits alike in Minnesota declared universally that the 2025 Minnesota legislature would be a nuclear powder...
US north-east sees record tick season as climate crisis sparks arachnid boom
The Guardian
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July 2, 2025
Ticks have been flourishing recently in the United States. This year, as compared to recent years, there has been an increase in the reported number of blacklegged ticks, the number of such ticks that carry Lyme disease and visits to the emergency...