It's been just over three months since a tornado tore through the town.
| Aug. 22, 2022 More nurses were on the picket line today, this time outside Hennepin Healthcare in downtown Minneapolis. The union representing nurses says they're trying to draw attention to staffing issues, including difficulty retaining nurses and an overall shortage of staff. Union nurses attribute the problem in part to working conditions and violence against healthcare staff. The picket is not related to the strike vote among 15,000 other Minnesota Nurses Association nurses across the state earlier this month – although it involves the same union, which staged informational pickets outside Allina hospitals earlier this summer. Subscribe to our Minnesota Today podcast to get up-to-date news twice daily. | |
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| Forada on the mend, but it hasn't been easy | | It's been just over three months since a tornado tore through Forada in west-central Minnesota. Since then, the town of about 160 residents has been on the mend, but it hasn’t been easy. | |
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| Minneapolis teacher contract language ignites firestorm | | When Minneapolis teachers settled a strike earlier this year, they celebrated a groundbreaking provision in their new contract that was meant to shield teachers of color from traditional seniority-based layoffs. Months later, there’s denunciations of the policy as racist and unconstitutional discrimination against white people. | |
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