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Minnesota 2020 moved Minnesota’s public policy debate forward for seven and a half years, from 2007-2014. Hundreds of volunteer writers, researchers and activists helped millions of Minnesotans focus on what really matters: education, healthcare, transportation and economic development. As a result, 2014 Minnesota looks different and better MN2020 - FREE MARKET SUSTAINABILITY: ENVIRONMENTALLY The NorthStar Initiative for Sustainable Enterprise (NISE) was created by the Institute on the Environment at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities in July 2009 with a goal to bring together academics, non-profits, and corporations to identify and solve sustainability issues. Issues include: how to make consumers aware of the difference their

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Minnesota 2020: Made in Minnesota Gift Guide Mato Sha, Bemidji. Web: www.matosha.com Phone: 218-444-8720 Email: charlie@matosha.com Address: PO Box 1972 About: Crafted from timber cut in the North Woods of Minnesota, these American Indian hand-made wooden feathers and gifts are indicative the native culture. The intricately carved pieces feature traditional animal and wildlife scenes. MN2020 - FALSE CHOICES: THE ECONOMIC ARGUMENT AGAINST In moving Minnesota back toward a proven educational path, our latest report makes the following recommendations: There is a place in education for efficiency, incentives, and innovation; however, policymakers must stop trying to achieve these competitive goals with

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MN2020 - IRRIGATING MINNESOTA'S FOOD DESERTS Researchers now blame some of the state's challenge with obesity on food deserts. Since 1995, Minnesota's rate of obesity has increased from 15 percent to 25 percent, bringing the total to roughly 1.3 million Minnesotans. From a White House campaign to end childhood obesity to small-scale community programs, groups are working hard to

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MN2020 - ATVS ON THE ROAD: A LEGALIZED RISK Minnesota DNR reports that have specified the locations of ATV fatalities since 2006 placed 86 out of 142 on roads, just over 60 percent. Minnesota-based Polaris Industries, a major maker of ATVs, places this warning on its Sportsman 570 model: "Operating an ATV on paved surfaces (including sidewalks, paths, parking lots and

driveways) may

MN2020 - RURAL MENTAL HEALTH IN CRISIS We who live in more urban areas too often subscribe to the stereotype of rural life as peaceful and idyllic. We assume that, far away from the pollution and stress of city life, people live easily and free

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MN2020 - STEVE FLETCHER Before joining Minnesota 2020, Steve Fletcher was the founding Executive Director of MN Neighborhoods Organizing for Change, where he ran winning campaigns in housing and schools, while building that organization from the ground up into a thriving, 300 member organization. For his work there, he was named Grassroots Solutions Organizer of the Year in 2011.

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