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![Clockwise from top left: Daniel McMonigal, Sue Keator, Joe Bridges, Donna Schiff, AK Kamara and Ted Storck gathered at the Star Tribune to talk about](https://arc.stimg.co/startribunemedia/25RSML7LFNH4PF7PG6S7CAG26M.jpg?h=120&w=180&fit=crop&bg=999&crop=faces)
How 6 Minnesota conservatives feel about the presidential race ahead of the RNC
Conservatives who participated in a Star Tribune voter panel were divided on whether they'll support former President Donald Trump. But they shared concerns about immigration, the economy and other issues.
![The Driftless Area illustrates as well as perhaps any place in the nation the rural drift toward the GOP of the past generation.](https://arc.stimg.co/startribunemedia/DFVIROOHQJGBZJDMNHEIVKAT2Q.jpg?h=120&w=180&fit=crop&bg=999&crop=faces)
From blue to red in a generation, Upper Midwest's Driftless Area flexes political muscle
From 2008 to 2020, the region along the Mississippi River covering parts of four states saw America's biggest flip from Democrat to Republican.
![Cheri Phillips greets her mother, Lori Tocholke, as she arrives home to Minnesota with her husband Chris, right, and son Greyson at Minneapolis-St. Pa](https://arc.stimg.co/startribunemedia/LKEDVDJOGZD4TJ5B44CVJTI7NI.jpg?h=120&w=180&fit=crop&bg=999&crop=faces)
After months stuck in Brazil, Minnesota family arrives home with newborn
Caught in Brazilian bureaucracy, Greyson Leo Phillips finally got to go home at 3 1/2 months old.
![Ly Baumgardt talks with friends during a TIGERRS Mondo Queer Beach Party at Lake Nokomis Little Beach on Sunday. Baumgardt is the Intersex Services Co](https://arc.stimg.co/startribunemedia/IKPPGKS4NZDZBGL34PFTCM7WZE.jpg?h=120&w=180&fit=crop&bg=999&crop=faces)
Yes, intersex people exist. A Twin Cities advocate is fighting for their rights.
Hiding in plain sight, overlooked by law and culture, intersex Minnesotans want visibility — and to ban cosmetic, nonessential surgeries on intersex children.
In a small Minnesota town, America's divisiveness meets its match: Civil debate
A couple of weeks before President Biden debates Donald Trump, people in New York Mills, Minn., came together to debate free speech.
![People raise painted red hands at a Minneapolis City Council meeting in January that debated a resolution calling for a ceasefire in the Israel-Hamas](https://arc.stimg.co/startribunemedia/44FLSCUGF5DMDLLDDF64XDLM4E.jpg?h=120&w=180&fit=crop&bg=999&crop=faces)
Warring words, ejections and lawsuits: Why can't local governments work together?
Recent incidents on city councils and boards across the state show how the rancor of D.C. has infected local politics.
![Greyson Leo Phillips sleeps in his incubator about a month after his birth in Brazil, surrounded by his parents and sister.](https://arc.stimg.co/startribunemedia/JLJDRSUGWRDMVHQUHXTADJ2TOM.jpg?h=120&w=180&fit=crop&bg=999&crop=faces)
Minnesota family getting documentation to bring premature baby home from Brazil
Greyson Leo Phillips was born in Brazil on March 12, three months premature. His family has only now secured his Brazilian birth certificate, an important hurdle in finally coming home.
![Army Sgt. Maj. Jason Rost awards a Purple Heart to Earl Meyer, 96, a retired farmer who was wounded in the Korea War but never received a Purple Heart](https://arc.stimg.co/startribunemedia/TYBVDHQ36ZCFHICDRUTZK64TVY.jpg?h=120&w=180&fit=crop&bg=999&crop=faces)
73 years after he was wounded in Korea, Minnesota man receives his Purple Heart
Earl "Sonny" Meyer, age 96, of St. Peter, received an honor the U.S. Army calls "long overdue."
![Greyson Leo Phillips sleeps in his incubator about a month after his birth in Brazil, surrounded by his parents and sister.](https://arc.stimg.co/startribunemedia/JLJDRSUGWRDMVHQUHXTADJ2TOM.jpg?h=120&w=180&fit=crop&bg=999&crop=faces)
Stuck in Brazil with premature baby, Minnesota family fights bureaucracy to return home
Cheri Phillips wasn't yet six months pregnant when she made the trip. The family has been stuck in Brazil since her son's premature birth March 12.
School sex abuse victim uses his tragedy to close gap in law
Lincoln Singh and his family are lobbying the Minnesota Legislature to require parental notification when students are unexpectedly pulled out of class.
Hastings mom is on a mission after son's fentanyl death
The Hastings family is among 64 nationwide suing Snapchat, alleging that dealers use the app as a marketplace.
![Earl Meyer with daughters Cindy Meyer (left) and Barb Wright (right) Not pictured is daughter Sandy. Since COVID started, Earl "Sonny" Meyer has repla](https://arc.stimg.co/startribunemedia/ZBVPS5NM3KAJDVY6YFLW5RSZDQ.jpg?h=120&w=180&fit=crop&bg=999&crop=faces)
73 years later, St. Peter man finally getting Purple Heart
Earl "Sonny" Meyer's family and attorney have been battling bureaucracy for years to recognize his Korean War injury.
In heated western Minn. GOP congressional primary, outsiders challenging incumbent
U.S. Rep. Michelle Fischbach has a solidly conservative voting record. But Steve Boyd, a Christian conservative who has never held public office, is gaining traction as an outsider.
![Rose Hegerle, director of veterinary services at Tri-County Humane Society, examines one of the 93 cats transported from a residence in Crosby on Thur](https://arc.stimg.co/startribunemedia/S25CUZ4KWVA4PIBTPWI2AE3SVM.jpg?h=120&w=180&fit=crop&bg=999&crop=faces)
St. Cloud animal shelter looking to reunite 94 Crosby-area cats with owners
The cats were found in a Crosby home and will go up for adoption Wednesday after mandatory five-day waiting period.
![Kathy Ware calms son Kylen, 29, as he is secured to a stander as part of his physical therapy at their South St. Paul home. The stander helps Kylen, w](https://arc.stimg.co/startribunemedia/PWNK25HFTJDXNABU3LB3AAONXY.jpg?h=120&w=180&fit=crop&bg=999&crop=faces)
Assisted suicide in Minnesota? Critics point to Canada as cautionary tale.
Proposed medical aid in dying legislation promises to be an ongoing issue in Minnesota, where some in the disability community fear being devalued or coerced.
Nicolae Miu's attorneys suggest victims provoked fatal Apple River stabbing
The 54-year-old Prior Lake man is charged with homicide and faces life in prison; the sixth day of his trial opened with his attorney questioning a friend of the victims about whether they prompted the attack.
![Taylor Richardson, left, smiles as her mother Ruth Richardson, executive director of Planned Parenthood North Central States, center, holds her grandd](https://arc.stimg.co/startribunemedia/JKSMFAAM65C7NH2VVWWCQ5WICE.jpg?h=120&w=180&fit=crop&bg=999&crop=faces)
New Planned Parenthood CEO says real issue is fairness, health equity
Ruth Richardson, the new president and CEO of Planned Parenthood North Central States, must navigate big differences in Minnesota and neighboring states.
A tumor in her brain, she wants the option to die peacefully — before it's too late
As the Legislature debates a bill on medical aid in dying, also called assisted suicide, a Corcoran woman with terminal brain cancer fears an ugly death.
![Lives of fallen Burnsville police and firefighter celebrated in multi city ceremony](https://arc-vid.stimg.co/02-29-2024/t_70f6f41a0e5b4c49acdb952ada6020bb_name_1new022924_scaled.jpg?h=120&w=180&fit=crop&bg=999&crop=faces)
'Nothing could be more honorable': Fallen Burnsville police, firefighter mourned in massive ceremony
Thousands attended in person and watched the livestream sending off the first responders.
Man arrested in Friday morning crash that killed two in Arden Hills
State Patrol released the names of the victims in the crash on Interstate 694.
Three years later, some Minnesota Republicans show sympathy toward Jan. 6 rioters
Some Republicans in Minnesota and across the country are pushing revisionist versions of what happened at the U.S. Capitol that day.
![Duluth East senior Lydia Kraker waits to compete in the Girls Classic Interval Start race during the Minnesota High School Nordic Ski Racing Champions](https://arc.stimg.co/startribunemedia/NRD3KBPH2BCY3PROQ54BYA5JEI.jpg?h=120&w=180&fit=crop&bg=999&crop=faces)
Cross-country skiing sees boom — even as your body screams at you to stop
For "world's most taxing sport," challenges such as the "pain cave" are a central feature, not a bug.
![Ralph Crowder III, whose father Ralph Crowder Jr. started Minnesota’s first AAU youth basketball team the McRae All-Stars in the 1980's, stands for](https://arc.stimg.co/startribunemedia/5OB2Y7J2MVE2ZCKDVEDVGQ3DQI.jpg?h=120&w=180&fit=crop&bg=999&crop=faces)
1980s middle-school basketball team helped change Black experience in Minneapolis
The McRae All-Stars team is now featured in a Minnesota Historical Society series.
![First Lt. Caleb Hjelle and his wife, Regan Hjelle, right, bowed their heads during the benediction of the deployment ceremony for 550 members of the M](https://arc.stimg.co/startribunemedia/WFZ6YCMRRJFJPMCNOBYL2SUDKY.jpg?h=120&w=180&fit=crop&bg=999&crop=faces)
Minnesota National Guard sends 550 soldiers to Middle East in one of state's largest recent deployments
The Oct. 7 Hamas attacks in Israel changed the complexion of region, where Minnesota soldiers will be stationed until late this year.
![Planned Parenthood CEO Ruth Richardson, shown in 2023.](https://arc.stimg.co/startribunemedia/LUIMXBD54JA4TGSW663OOOHOAY.jpg?h=120&w=180&fit=crop&bg=999&crop=faces)
Planned Parenthood to cut staff, consolidate clinics in Upper Midwest
Leaders for the five-state region, including Minnesota, say the change increases patient capacity.
Minnesota's end-of-life options bill clears its first legislative hurdle
The bill passed the House Health Finance and Policy Committee after hours of emotional testimony.
Walz predicts 2024 will be key year for abortion rights in Minnesota, Upper Midwest
18 months after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, the Minnesota governor's visit to Planned Parenthood North Central States marks the ongoing battle.
After devastating fire, owners of Cass Lake Lodge near Bemidji rebuilding main lodge
After September fire, they plan to reopen the cabin by the May fishing opener, and main lodge by Memorial Day.
![A board member for the Nameless Coalition for the Homeless in Bemidji and other volunteers serve a Christmas meal to clients earlier this month.](https://arc.stimg.co/startribunemedia/DZDRK7RSMX3KPSUW2JZWUYKDXA.jpg?h=120&w=180&fit=crop&bg=999&crop=faces)
Why homelessness is a growing problem in greater Minnesota
In Beltrami County, where poverty rate is nearly double the state average, lack of affordable housing is acute.
He took joyride at Twin Cities dealership Christmas morning, charges say
The Little Canada man was arrested for allegedly receiving stolen property, possessing burglary tools, criminal damage to property and fleeing officers
Northeast Minneapolis woman who survived two genocides in Ukraine sees history repeating
With the help of her granddaughter, Nina Jablonsky, 90, is piecing together her life's journey.
A Minnesota screening of Hamas Oct. 7 attack film shares horrors
Israel compiled Hamas videos and surveillance footage into a gruesome film to remind the world of atrocities.
Canoes for cops: Ely uses outdoor vibe to recruit police officers
Like many other cities, the Boundary Waters gateway community is struggling to keep its force staffed.
![Minneapolis attorney Bruce Nestor spoke at a news conference at CAIR-Minnesota in Minneapolis Monday afternoon, November 27, 2023 to announce that a c](https://arc.stimg.co/startribunemedia/M5P2UYW6NUVCIDHZNVHZ6AWWQI.jpg?h=120&w=180&fit=crop&bg=999&crop=faces)
Edina schools criticized for suspending students who used pro-Palestinian chant
Two Muslim students who participated in a walkout in October were given a three-day suspension for using a slogan that many Jews consider antisemitic.
![“It’s just an overall black sadness,” says Eilat Harel, photographed at her home in Minnetonka on Monday.](https://arc.stimg.co/startribunemedia/4QTH54BTJTKMXKG3UARTQ3HWNY.jpg?h=120&w=180&fit=crop&bg=999&crop=faces)
For Minnesota Jews and Muslims, a shared darkness since Oct. 7
For those with deep ties to a conflict zone thousands of miles away, struggles are a secondary trauma.
![Jim Eide, a 100-year-old World War II veteran who served as a turret gunner, sipped his coffee as his daughter Vee Calder displayed his medals Wednesd](https://arc.stimg.co/startribunemedia/PLGTDN2W7ZKIKVHYPMYL6ZYTQE.jpg?h=120&w=180&fit=crop&bg=999&crop=faces)
100-year-old World War II turret gunner among few Minnesota vets remaining from Greatest Generation
From his cabin up north, as Jim Eide lives out his twilight, war stories spill forth.
![Residents of the Minneapolis Veterans Home watched a sneak preview of “Heroes & History,” a documentary produced by TPT, in 2018.](https://arc.stimg.co/startribunemedia/XB446WC5Q6VQO3MA4C5WFQ6V6U.jpg?h=120&w=180&fit=crop&bg=999&crop=faces)
COVID infections prompt Veterans Home in Minneapolis to cancel Veterans Day event
But the state Veterans Day Event in Inver Grove Heights will go on as scheduled.
![Ellen Kennedy held a photo of her late husband, Leigh Lawton, who died from cancer in 2022. It was Lawton's dying wish that Kennedy advocate for a law](https://arc.stimg.co/startribunemedia/KLN7P2UQU67FNVRRC4MDLETIEE.jpg?h=120&w=180&fit=crop&bg=999&crop=faces)
Will terminally ill patients in Minnesota be allowed to choose when life ends?
The Legislature plans to take up the issue of medical aid in dying during its next session.
![Olga Frayman, a Ukrainian Jew who moved to the United States 30 years ago, speaks Thursday at a press conference linking conflicts in Israel and Ukrai](https://arc.stimg.co/startribunemedia/OU45G6MSGBAPB4KI6EMUVG32FY.jpg?h=120&w=180&fit=crop&bg=999&crop=faces)
Jews and Ukrainians band together in Minnesota to link conflicts in Israel, Ukraine
Equating Hamas to Russia and Israel to Ukraine, groups see parallels as Washington debates funding.
![Rendering of proposed national service park, called Peace Corps Plaza, in Plainview.](https://arc.stimg.co/startribunemedia/EXHC3JWB5AMSYGAZH52PS6W3JU.jpg?h=120&w=180&fit=crop&bg=999&crop=faces)
Southeast Minnesota town to dedicate park to national service
With four of the original 3,000 Peace Corps volunteers, Plainview has a legacy of service.
![A group of trail regulars who helped make the Cuyuna Country State Recreation Area a mountain biking destination, from left, John Schaubach, Dan Cruse](https://arc.stimg.co/startribunemedia/V6Z4GC6JADZVN5TJZE74JHAQZI.jpg?h=120&w=180&fit=crop&bg=999&crop=faces)
These mining towns found new life as mountain-biking paradise
Crosby and Ironton, on the southern tip of the Iron Range, struggled after mining left. Then came the mountain bikers.
![Law enforcement outside of the Karl Holmberg residence during a standoff after multiple officers were shot near Princeton, Minn., on Thursday.](https://arc.stimg.co/startribunemedia/7S7QK4K5BLSJ6SAHCZJFUM7URU.jpg?h=120&w=180&fit=crop&bg=999&crop=faces)
'His day to die': Charges filed in Benton County shooting of five officers
Karl Thomas Holmberg was charged Friday with multiple felony counts, including six counts of first-degree attempted murder.
![Ari Parritz, in the middle with sunglasses, celebrates his cousin’s wedding Friday in Caesarea, Israel. Hours later, Hamas launched the largest-scal](https://arc.stimg.co/startribunemedia/YRNPLWMJKWNSTTFUPXNY7KJEKA.jpg?h=120&w=180&fit=crop&bg=999&crop=faces)
For Minnesotans with ties to Israel and Gaza, feelings of fear, devastation and anger
One awoke in Tel Aviv to air-raid sirens. Another feared for his brother, who was called to military duty.
Anti-gay graffiti traumatizes high school teacher in Stearns County town
Jake Pundsack, a teacher at Melrose High School, said he hopes it becomes a learning opportunity.
![The interior of Fred Ambs’ Moorhead saloon, photographed around 1905.](https://arc.stimg.co/startribunemedia/W35JXY22F4UWERW6IATAV6GJJU.jpg?h=120&w=180&fit=crop&bg=999&crop=faces)
Was Moorhead once a destination for drunks?
Decades before Prohibition, Moorhead benefited from a lesser-known liquor ban.
![Maj. Gen. Shawn Manke announced Minnesota’s 133rd Airlift Wing is getting eight new C-130J Super Hercules airplanes to replace their aging C-130Hs,](https://arc.stimg.co/startribunemedia/DZB5EK6V3O7AS5TB5J6PQKCEDI.jpg?h=120&w=180&fit=crop&bg=999&crop=faces)
Minnesota Air National Guard to get 8 shiny new hulking transport planes
The C-130J Super Hercules aircraft, $112 million each, will replace the unit's aging C-130H fleet and help continue the unit's transport and disaster relief missions.
![RN Whitney Freshwater and Cameo, a health care assistant who asked that her last name not be used, took a breath after hours of nonstop work with pati](https://arc.stimg.co/startribunemedia/TBXA2QZIVIDLCKWLRKUH7VWEEI.jpg?h=120&w=180&fit=crop&bg=999&crop=faces)
Inside Minnesota's busiest ER, the trauma of dealing with trauma never stops
Minnesota has been upended by trauma the past few years: COVID, George Floyd, civil unrest, gun violence, an opioid epidemic. The state's largest emergency room, at HCMC, has borne the brunt of it.
![Families of people who died of fentanyl overdoses stood together during a news conference about the drastic increase in fentanyl deaths in Hennepin Co](https://arc.stimg.co/startribunemedia/NBPUOPU7BLI57TJ6PMXBVKKRWU.jpg?h=120&w=180&fit=crop&bg=999&crop=faces)
Sheriff sounds alarm on fentanyl, which killed average of 1 a day in Hennepin Co. last year
This year, interagency task forces have seized enough fentanyl to kill every person in Hennepin County.
![Earl Meyer with daughters Cindy Meyer (left) and Barb Wright (right) are seen in 2022. Not pictured is daughter Sandy. Earl “Sonny” Meyer is a St.](https://arc.stimg.co/startribunemedia/PS36JCOYAN6PUUV77XX3UYKH4Y.jpg?h=120&w=180&fit=crop&bg=999&crop=faces)
Believing injury warrants Purple Heart, Minnesota Korean War vet, 96, sues Defense Dept.
The family of Earl "Sonny" Meyer, a retired farmer from St. Peter, cites a paperwork snafu as the cause of an injustice.
The Minnesota State Fair is crowds and chaos by design. Try navigating it with a disability.
Accessibility improvements have helped make the fair more welcoming for people with disabilities, but challenges remain.
Rally accident cancels race stage, sends driver to hospital
The hospital trip was only precautionary, said organizers of the rally race held near Lake Itasca.
![Fair employees test run one of the rides while setting up shop at the Minnesota State Fairgrounds' Midway Parkway. The fair opens to the public on Thu](https://arc.stimg.co/startribunemedia/6MPHTJCLYFBSJXCRAXUYIJIW3M.jpg?h=120&w=180&fit=crop&bg=999&crop=faces)
The Mighty Midway is where Minnesota State Fair's magic happens — with help of 825 workers
It takes a week to build the midway — rides, games, concessions — and a few days to tear it down.
![Taylor Fairbanks (middle), one of the Native American Undergraduate Museum Fellows (NAUMF) and August Mentch (right), the program support intern, laug](https://arc.stimg.co/startribunemedia/GO7HBOJMWESKEP7EKTLVFNR7JM.jpg?h=120&w=180&fit=crop&bg=999&crop=faces)
History often excludes Native Americans. The Minnesota Historical Society is trying to change that.
The Native American Undergraduate Museum Fellowship exposes students to careers in the museum field.
![Capt. Rafael Barbosa gets a CT scan in Rochester in 2022. He learned this week that the Army approved his appeal to return to active duty.](https://arc.stimg.co/startribunemedia/EAAYODGA2P3Y4AJJ2RVBOQJIDU.jpg?h=120&w=180&fit=crop&bg=999&crop=faces)
After burn pits in Iraq nearly killed him, Minnesota Army pilot gets his wish to return to active duty
Capt. Rafael Barbosa, an Iraq and Afghanistan veteran in St. Paul, will return to active duty.
![Rudy Ruiz with his four children before he died in December.](https://arc.stimg.co/startribunemedia/OSQNWSAQEN42FTMAHXYBFHWIAY.jpg?h=120&w=180&fit=crop&bg=999&crop=faces)
Deadline nears for vets to get maximum benefits after exposure to burn pits, other toxins
The benefits can also help survivors of deceased veterans, such as the children of Iraq veteran Rudy Ruiz.
![Recreational cannabis on display Tuesday at NativeCare in Red Lake, Minn., the state’s first recreational marijuana dispensary. A second dispensary](https://arc.stimg.co/startribunemedia/H6POLUBIBZIQ4CKQ2PDK45KEBM.jpg?h=120&w=180&fit=crop&bg=999&crop=faces)
Second cannabis dispensary opens on tribal land in Minnesota
As Minnesota works on licensing, tribal nations can sell cannabis after law went into effect Aug. 1.
![Red Pine Estates in Bemidji.](https://arc.stimg.co/startribunemedia/WR3WISEW75LLQ6RZ4WFDVDKSXI.jpg?h=120&w=180&fit=crop&bg=999&crop=faces)
'We were kicked to the curb.' Elderly, disabled tenants of evacuated Bemidji apartments seek affordable housing
More than half of tenants evacuated a week ago due to "structural integrity" issues are still looking for affordable housing in a region starved of it.
Concerns of 'structural integrity' prompt Bemidji to evacuate apartment building
City officials said those who didn't need to be inside the building must stay out "due to concerns of added load to the structure."
![Lance Zaal during his most recent trip to Ukraine in June.](https://arc.stimg.co/startribunemedia/GR3RV776TG3SUPELCOM3OFFKME.jpg?h=120&w=180&fit=crop&bg=999&crop=faces)
For Twin Cities ghost-tour operator, trips to help Ukraine are about leaving imprint on others
Lance Zaal loves the history in the stories his ghost tour guides tell. It prompted him to think more of his own legacy.
Moorhead is hitting the reset button on entire downtown
The city across the river from Fargo is tearing down a mall to rebuild a downtown in hopes of drawing residents and fostering lively streets.
![Dr. Angela Kade Goepferd, the medical director of Children’s Minnesota Gender Health program, will be the grand marshal of this month’s Twin Citie](https://arc.stimg.co/startribunemedia/VMVKTXJAOJS5FC7T547DIOXUSU.jpg?h=120&w=180&fit=crop&bg=999&crop=faces)
Twin Cities Pride organizers celebrate trans youth amid national debate
Gender clinic doctor to serve as grand marshal of parade in show of support.
Results of federal investigation into Minneapolis police met with hope, skepticism
The question on many people's minds is whether the eventual consent decree will prompt meaningful change.
![A former manager of the Harvard Medical School morgue has been charged with trafficking of human remains.](https://arc.stimg.co/startribunemedia/7ZSD3CLPOGYRPJGA6OPXNGYECA.jpg?h=120&w=180&fit=crop&bg=999&crop=faces)
Owner of White Bear Lake tattoo parlor charged with trafficking body parts
Matt Lampi was among six people indicted in the federal case.
![Students study Chinese at Sēn Lín Hú, Concordia Language Villages’ Chinese village, at its longtime location at Maplelag Resort north of Detroit](https://arc.stimg.co/startribunemedia/CQAX2W42MQEGJ5HICMXMQKJL2M.jpg?h=120&w=180&fit=crop&bg=999&crop=faces)
After resort fire, Concordia Language Villages weighs permanent home for Chinese program
A fire at Maplelag Resort has temporarily moved the school's Chinese Language Village to Moorhead.
More than 80 years after Pearl Harbor, a Minnesota sailor comes home
Remains of 20-year-old Glenn Cyriack, of Lake Benton, were buried in a family plot.
54 years after his father's plane crashed in Laos, Minneapolis man still searches for answers
In a pre-Memorial Day ceremony, Chris Walsh will tell the story of his father, Richard Ambrose Walsh III, an Air Force pilot shot down during the Vietnam War.
![Ellie Krug, a newly elected school board member in Eastern Carver County schools who is one of eight transgender school board members nationwide, gave](https://arc.stimg.co/startribunemedia/QBEFIW4UCH3AEHH5QB4GHZCMDU.jpg?h=120&w=180&fit=crop&bg=999&crop=faces)
Trans woman Ellie Krug changes hearts from unlikely place: a suburban Minnesota school board
Krug bridges the nation's heated gender debate with a deceptively simple strategy: human familiarity.
Military improving policies for new mothers
Recruiting and retention become top priorities as the military competes with near-record low unemployment.