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Minnesota Public Radio

A selection of my reporting during my time as a reporter at MPR.

Award winners

A family deployment

False documents: A lucrative business

Priests and health department tackle infant and fetal deaths among Latino families

Immigration and race relations

Reporting the news — en español

Lutheran church revisits bilingual past for Sudanese immigrants

From tiny island to tiny town, Micronesians at home in Milan, Minn.

Somali population, cultural tensions rising in St. Cloud

Some students say St. Cloud schools haven’t responded to racism

Pastor’s newspaper ad fans religious tensions in St. Cloud

St. Cloud’s history of friction with outsiders

In St. Cloud, apartment shortage splits families

Business

New bakery offers a taste of home to Salvadorians

Immigrant farmers work and learn in a new land

Immigrant brothers build their dream

St. Cloud bank is nation’s top buyer of failed institutions

St. Cloud residents not seeing results of stimulus

Program helps beginning farmers get started

Human interest

St. Cloud seniors miss the newspaper’s bridge column

Raising sheep a family affair on one farm

Quilt shop makes cozy concert venue

Crowds embark on culinary adventure at Garlic Festival

Trauma Reporting

How military families cope when parents come home injured

Despite rising flood waters, some residents are staying put

They came for a class reunion and stayed for the cleanup

Environment

Health Department says it’s safe to eat more fish in Minnesota

Minnesota cities struggle with measuring their carbon footprint

Several agencies will investigate the cause of explosion

Authorities search for cause of pipeline explosion

New science from an old spill

Weatherization needs on Indian reservation outstrip assistance