State’s new health exchange weighs how best to enroll the uninsured

Apr. 17 |          Outreach and education essential to success   Open enrollment for the new MNsure health exchange program is slated to start this October. “This process of creating a Minnesota [health] exchange was a lengthy one,”...

Food shelves have become a necessity these days

Oct. 31 | Here’s some comparison-shopping, heads-up on a few places in S. Mpls   Jericho Road Ministries, 1628 East 33rd Street, from cheerful volunteers to a usually bleary-eyed Director Jeff Noyed, is a caring operation that goes the extra step to...

Volunteer to learn new career skills

Oct. 31 |                   If you are thinking of starting a new career, you may be wondering where to begin. Often, when we decide to transition or take a leap into a new adventure, we are faced with the issue...

The McKnight Foundation awards recipients for community service

Sep. 26 | By Charles Hallman Staff Writer   Gino Nelson with wife Staceyand sons Najee (middle) and RajaPhotos by Charles Hallman Gada Roba of Minneapolis, Gino Nelson of Lakeville and Ibrahim Hussein of Owatonna were among six Minnesotans recently honored...

Homelessness, once temporary, now chronic

Jun. 6 |   Programs serving the homeless  have dug in for the long haul   News Analysis By Dwight Hobbes Contributing Writer   Increasingly, homelessness has grown from being a temporary problem to being a chronic condition all across America....