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20 hours ago | minnpost.com | Sheila Regan

Staff from Macalester College’s Art & Art History Department and its Music Department are joining in an effort across the college to unionize. The staff filed for a union election on May 2 with the National Labor Relations Board. Made up of non-faculty, non-supervisory staff, the employees have declared their intention to join the Minnesota Association of Professional Employees (MAPE), a union made up of service employees working in Minnesota in a range of industries.

1 day ago | minnpost.com | Steve Karnowski

WAVERLY, Minn. (AP) — Minnesota farmer Dan Glessing isn’t ready to get too upset over President Donald Trump’s trade wars. Farm country voted heavily for Trump last November. Now Glessing and many other farmers are taking a wait-and-see attitude toward the Republican president’s disputes with China and other international markets. China normally would buy about one row out of every four of the Minnesota soybean crop and took in nearly $13 billion worth of soybeans from the U.S. as a whole last year.

1 day ago | minnpost.com | Pat Borzi

If you’re a Division III coach in these parts, it never hurts to have a kid on your team who’s passionate about food and nutrition. The St. Catherine’s women’s golf team discovered that in a delightful way a few months back on a spring break trip to Arizona. Katie Reeves, a graduate student from White Bear Lake in St. Kate’s demanding nutrition and dietetics program, prepared two meals from scratch for her Wildcats teammates and coaches.

1 day ago | minnpost.com | Matthew Blake

On Thursday Sens. Heather Gustafson, DFL-Vadnais Heights, and Michael Kreun, R-Blaine, trumpeted that a bill to create an inspector general for the state of Minnesota cleared the Senate on a convincing 60-7 vote. “We have already made significant strides in fighting fraud in Minnesota, but today filled the gap that was desperately missing,” Gustafson told reporters at a press conference after the vote.

1 day ago | minnpost.com | Sheila Regan

When Hadley Dobish, a student at St. Paul Academy, contemplated her last project of high school, it didn’t take her long to hone in on the idea of shining a light on an unsung artist: her great uncle, Don Grandbois. Grandbois, a great-grandfather in his 80s, had studied art back in the 1960s: first as an undergraduate at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design and then as a graduate student at the University of North Dakota.