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High School for Recording Arts
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Minnesota invests $41 million in teacher pipeline grants to bolster the state's number of teachers
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Hass takes prime role with beef ambassadors
This year, Emily Hass received a promotion. The soon-to-be senior at Cambridge-Isanti High School has been named as the Peer Advisor to the 2026–2027 Minnesota State Beef Ambassador Team, which is sponsored by the Minnesota State CattleWomen. After spending the past two years as an Ambassador, Hass admitted she has mixed emotions about this new position. “It’s a very exciting and proud moment, but some of it is kind of sad,” she said. “I don’t get to travel the state anymore and have that ambassador role. Yes, I get to travel and do it with them, but I don’t have that kind of name tag as the state ambassador. I’m the peer advisor; I get to coach and tell them what to do. “It is pretty much a completely different role. So that’s exciting. And I’m definitely proud that I’ve made it to be a peer advisor and get to advocate for these girls. … It’s more of a behind-the-scenes thing, scheduling the meetings, sending out agendas, coming up with social media posts and schedules for them.” Hass said the Beef Ambassadors travel around the state to advocate for Minnesota beef and agriculture. Their trips take them to county and
KSTP 5 Eyewitness News Minneapolis-St. Paul MN
Free back-to-school supply events helping parents as costs rise
Sun ThisWeek
It’s almost here – high school fall sports practices start next week
Competition in South Suburban Conference figures to be fierce High school athletes have spent much of the summer hitting the courts, the streets and the weightroom, but next week is when it starts to feel real. First day of official fall practice is Monday, Aug. 17, for all sports except adapted soccer (where practices start Sept. 8). Some teams will return next week looking to continue being dominant. Others are looking to build. They all want to have reasons for optimism. Here’s an early look at some of the teams in the Sun Thisweek and Dakota County Tribune coverage area: Football The most noteworthy game of the 2025 local football season might have been Lakeville South’s 49-31 victory over Maple Grove in the Class 6A quarterfinals. The surprise to observers wasn’t so much that the Cougars won, but the way they tore apart the defending state champions’ defense. Griffen Dean rushed for 286 yards and six touchdowns, and Nic Swanson added 180 yards on the ground. South lost to Moorhead 26-14 in the state semifinals the next week, but the Cougars are back with another team expected to contend in Class 6A. Dean, a recent University of Montana commit, offensive
Minnesota Spokesman-Recorder
Fab Five Photos: YHIC edges Strictly 104-100 for the Twin Cities Pro Am championship at DeLaSalle
This week’s Fab Five photos feature images from the Twin Cities Pro Am championship game in which YHIC defeated Strictly 104-100 before a capacity crowd at DeLaSalle High School. Dr. Mitchell Palmer McDonald welcomes reader responses at mcdeezy05@gmail.com.
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Genocide Scholar Denied Genocide Studies Job for Calling out Genocide Gets Settlement from the U
Welcome back to The Flyover, your daily digest of important, overlooked, and/or interesting Minnesota news stories. In 2024, the University of Minnesota enthusiastically selected Israeli historian Raz Segal as the new director of the Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies. A few weeks later, two board members at the center quit in protest, upset that the Jewish-Israeli intellectual had penned an article, “A Textbook Case of Genocide,” for the progressive magazine Jewish Currents, where he deemed the current situation in Palestine as... well, just take a look at that title.
Government Technology
University of St. Thomas to Compensate Data Breach Victims
(TNS) — University of St. Thomas students, employees and alumni whose personal information was compromised in a 2025 data breach may be eligible for some relief after the institution received preliminary approval to settle a class action lawsuit. The private Catholic university in Houston reached an agreement in late...
Minnesota Daily
Bailey Hall to close for the 2026-2027 academic year
On July 24, the University of Minnesota announced the closure of Bailey Hall and its dining hall for the 2026-2027 academic year. The announcement comes after the University received $75 million in a bonding bill from the state, $35 million of which is dedicated to the construction of the new St. Paul Campus Center.