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Minnesota extends deadline for cannabis business applications after system outage

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The portal for those seeking licenses to operate cannabis businesses shut down Friday.

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Northfield residents turn up the volume for rare, independently owned radio station

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Rising food prices, immigration fears put a damper on some Ramadan celebrations in Minnesota

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Like thousands of other high school graduates in Minnesota, Chris McIntire went straight to work at a segregated workshop, where he did menial factory work for sub minimum wages. Then in 2017, the state Vocational Rehabilitation program stepped in and found Chris a job for $10/hour at Friendly Buffalo Restaurant in Big Lake, Minn. Here, McIntire whistles to the Bob Dylan song The Times They Are a Changing', while washing dishes with his job coach Jaime Klatt looking on Friday, May 11, 2018, at t

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