Chalk art creations popping up on Mpls. sidewalks encourage mental health breaks
Since April, a local artist has left a couple hundred chalk sketches throughout the city encouraging passersby to stop and take a moment for themselves.
Minnesota's largest community foundation helps give former inmates a second chance
Over the past five years, the St. Paul & Minnesota Foundations has awarded a growing amount of money to organizations focused on criminal justice reform.
Minneapolis time-management guru turns procrastinators into goal-setters
For 30 years, the Brooklyn Park-based owner of Uniquely Yours Consulting has been helping people, mostly by getting out of their own way.
Improv troupe for actors with Down syndrome inspires confidence
"When I started thinking about the tenets of improvisation and what it actually means and what you could learn from it, it felt like this is a missing link to the disability community," the director said.
'Fantastical' idea to bike across U.S. gets real as a way to honor his brother
He plans to ride 4,764 miles over 107 days as a tribute to his brother who died from leukemia.
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Comcast customer rep and her supervisor help save man's life in Michigan
The man was having a stroke 890 miles away.
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In his Minneapolis neighborhood and at City Hall, Sean Connaughty has become known as the lake's outspoken caretaker.
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