As a classroom teacher for more than 20 years, I know firsthand how resilient, strong, and flexible our students and educators are. There’s no…
In a time of rapid changes and uncertainty, one thing was clear Friday as Gov. Tim Walz, Health Commissioner Jan Malcolm and Attorney General …
If recent job cuts at U.S. Steel and idling at an ArcelorMittal blast furnace in Indiana speak to one thing, it’s the need for the state of Mi…
For too many years the tough decision has evaded Iron Range school districts — kicked down the road for another election, another board and an…
The numerous legal, rhetorical and legislative probes into how the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency interacted with comments from their coun…
About a year ago, on July 11, 2018, the state of Minnesota relented in giving Mesabi Metallics mineral leases critical to the Nashwauk pellet …
This week, Gov. Tim Walz signed a bipartisan bill that takes the state’s first steps toward tackling the opioid epidemic ravaging Minnesota, a…
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A few years ago, surveys found that increasing numbers of high school graduates needed to take “catch up” classes in college. Some Minnesota c…
As news filtered out Thursday that Glencore had established itself as the majority shareholder of PolyMet, which is looking to build Minnesota…
Voters in Eveleth-Gilbert and Virginia on Tuesday owe themselves and our students an answer to this question: What is really holding us back f…
If you thought Mark Dayton’s administration and his Department of Natural Resources had credibility issues with the Twin Metals project before…
Thursday’s unanimous votes by the Eveleth-Gilbert and Virginia school boards to send a joint high school and new elementary option to the vote…
Mere hours before Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz was sworn into office, and just days after he announced a new commissioner for the Department of Nat…
Fool the state once, shame on you. Fool the state twice, shame on it.
History will remember Tom Rukavina in many ways: The relentless working class champion, a staunch supporter of Iron Range mining, a lawmaker w…
Joe Mauer could have left for greener pastures. Green like the Green Monster in Boston, where his opposite-field approach and command of the s…
Minnesota is now the only state in the nation with a split-power Legislature following Tuesday’s midterm elections, presenting some real oppor…
It is rare for a state to have both of its U.S. Senators up for election in the same cycle, but Minnesota finds itself in that situation this …
Voters in Minnesota’s 8th Congressional District once again have a tough decision to make in Tuesday’s midterm election, but with a wealth of …
With the rising opioid crisis and out-of-home placements in St. Louis County, the region needs commissioners ready to dig down to the root of …
When choosing the next governor on Nov. 6, Minnesotans should look for a leader that can bridge the gap between parties and accomplish more th…
Dave Lislegard has experienced firsthand the cyclical life on the Iron Range. A laid off miner from LTV Steel Mining Company, Lislegard shephe…
“You’re asking me to answer a question for 20 years from now,” Mesabi Metallics CEO Gary Heasley said at a town hall Monday night. “We got a m…
Early last week Minnesota Gov. Mark Dayton gathered a group of Iron Range mayors and other local officials to address concerns of the Mesabi M…
Thursday’s decision by the federal government to cancel a massive land withdrawal in the Rainy River Watershed was a shot in the arm to Iron R…
The Iron Range’s mining industry has come a long way since 2015, when a downturn ravaged the region’s largest employer and idled plants from K…
For Iron Rangers considering their DFL vote for the next governor, there is no duo on the ballot with a background more supportive of the Rang…
More than a year ago Pete Stauber launched his bid as a Republican candidate for the 8th Congressional District. At the time, he was on a path…