Dave Peters
Kiva, a global microlending organization has a new program that is helping a woman launch a small cafe in southwestern Minnesota.
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Jennifer Vogel
Assistant Commissioner of Education Elia Dimayuga-Bruggeman raised Latino graduation rates in Sleepy Eye, where she was principal. Now, she’s looking to take those efforts statewide.
Gov. Mark Dayton’s broadband task force says Minnesota is not on track to meet its goals of high-speed Internet availability for all households by 2015. It is urging a sales tax credit or an income tax exemption to encourage phone, cable and other companies to provide better high-speed access to the Internet in parts of Minnesota.
We asked members of MPR News’ Public Insight Network to tell us about places Latinos and whites make connections. Here’s what we heard, from the YMCA to church to the bakery.