What’s happening in Minneapolis? Hear it from the journalists who live there.
Even after more than a decade of covering the local news industry, it still takes me time to remember to get off social media, my phone, national news and wherever else I’m getting information and go directly to the source — the people who live there, who pay taxes there, who worship and shop and vote and raise their families there.
In the last few weeks, that source has been journalists and newsrooms in Minnesota after U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers shot and killed Renee Good and Border Patrol officers shot and killed Alex Pretti.
This matters in a time when local newspaper newsrooms continue closing around the country, when local journalists continue innovating and working to keep people informed, and as trust has declined for both national and local media, according to an October 2025 report from the Pew Research Center.
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