Switchboard • 7th August 2025

Haitian Creole Speakers Can Now Message Settle In for Support

Settle In now offers social media information services in Haitian Creole on Facebook, joining existing support for Afghan, Ukrainian, and Spanish-speaking communities. The platform currently has 43,000 followers and has reached over 1.2 million people.

International Rescue Committee • 9th August 2024

IRC Settle In Program Expands to Support Spanish-Speaking Refugees

The International Rescue Committee (IRC) is thrilled to announce the expansion of the Settle In program’s social media information services to support newly arrived Spanish-speaking refugees in the United States. This expansion will provide a trusted resource for essential information on U.S. resettlement and build on the existing resources available through the program.

International Rescue Committee • 26th May 2024

Settle In

Your best place to find trusted and accurate information about the United States Refugee Admissions Program and Life in the United States.

International Rescue Committee • 26th May 2024

Settle In (Facebook)

We provide reliable information to newcomers resettling in the U.S.

Cargill • 10th October 2018

Pampered Paws

As South Korea’s pet industry booms, Cargill is focused on reaching high-end consumers.

Cargill • 19th September 2018

Decade of Impact: Building a better life for Ghana’s cocoa farmers

Yaa Mensiwah was barely making ends meet. As a cocoa farmer in Ghana’s Asarekwaa community, she was a single mom to her 5-year-old daughter and her late brother’s two children. Her life took a turn for the better when she joined the CARE-Cargill program.

Cargill • 8th March 2018

Committed to change

Cargill’s Maria Nelly Rivas hopes her work will make Nicaragua a better place for future generations.

Cargill • 7th February 2018

Korean beef in the international spotlight

Cargill has been helping improve and elevate the quality of Korean-native hanwoo beef long before Pyeongchang was a. household name

Finance & Commerce • 25th August 2015

Is Midway the next North Loop?

Tenants are already moving into the seven-building Vandalia Tower complex, including Independent Filmmaker Project Minnesota, TicketKing, artists and marketing agencies. Lake Monster Brewing is planning to open there in October. http://finance-commerce.com/2015/08/is-midway-the-next-north-loop/

MPR News • 9th June 2015

How gut bacteria affects your health: What we know, what we don't

The latest research shows your gut microbiome has a profound connection to a number of diseases and issues facing humans today: Diabetes, Crohn's disease, obesity, asthma, allergies and other autoimmune diseases.

Modern Loss • 14th May 2015

The Breakup

Just over a year after my mom died, my boyfriend of three years walked out — carrying his deodorant and phone charger. And then, I was grieving all over again.

MPR News • 16th January 2015

For millennials in mourning, grief can run deep

Emily Kaiser and one of the founders of Modern Loss joined The Daily Circuit to talk about how millennials cope with grief.

Washingtonian • 11th January 2015

How Millennials Mourn

I was 25 years old when I found out cancer would take my mom from me.

MPR News' The Daily Circuit blog • 13th January 2014

Op-ed pick: How to help when someone is in crisis

After spending many years helping my mom through cancer treatments and then experiencing the unexplainable and painful grief when she died last year, David Brooks’ piece in the New York Times really hit home. Going through my own family’s tragedy, I realized how poorly I had reached out to others in crisis and how seldom people understand what they can do in such situations.

MPR News' The Daily Circuit blog • 12th November 2012

How do you thank the person who saved your life?

In April, Jenna Langer was on The Daily Circuit talking about the challenges facing young people with cancer. Just one year prior, Langer had been diagnosed with her third bout of cancer, which could turn into leukemia without a bone marrow transplant. Langer found her match in a stranger. Twenty-year-old Maxine Renning went through with the transplant and Langer is now healthy and cancer free.

City Pages • 11th May 2010

Alisha Neeley's death leads to girl gang truce

Alisha Neeley spent the last night of her life surrounded by her closest friends. The 17-year-old was pre-partying at her cousin's house, taking shot after shot of vodka. Wearing a brown Hollister polo, jeans, and Coach boots, she was a natural beauty with a hypnotic smile. Known as LeLe to her friends, she was the life of the party, playfully pulling girls off the couch to dance. They called themselves the Ladiis and were known as one of the toughest female cliques on Minneapolis's north side.

City Pages • 26th January 2010

Haze reunites over funky mystery record

It all started with Shelley Pierce hunched over the vinyl bin at Cheapo. She had most of the albums she wanted, but enjoyed the thrill of the hunt. As she finished flipping through the new arrivals, a short, plump woman in her 50s came in the front door of the store, lugging a crate full of used vinyl records. Once she dropped it off at the front counter, she turned around and went back out to her car. Ten crates and 15 minutes later, the woman was out of breath, leaning over the front counter.

City Pages • 20th October 2009

Vivid-Alt's Vin Vericose transforms from Minnesota boy to porn star

Sitting on his dad's bed in a small, smoke-filled studio apartment in South St. Paul, Chad Fjerstad reached for his backpack and pulled out a DVD. He leaned over to his dad, Darren, who was resting in his worn recliner, and handed him the flick. His dad scanned the front cover: "Pussy a Go Go." With the prominent display of breasts, it was clearly a porn movie. "Notice anything?" Chad asked, turning it over. Then Darren's eyes locked on an image in the middle of the case.

Star Tribune • 5th August 2008

Is this the face of a terrorist?

John Anderson's family was taking a trip to Disney World in 2004 when they were stopped by security at Minneapolis-St. Paul International airport. The airlines thought John, who goes by Jack, was on a terror watch list. Agents were dumbfounded when they looked over the counter to see the suspected terrorist -- a 2-year-old St. Paul toddler dozing in his stroller with a pacifier hanging from his mouth.

Star Tribune • 31st July 2008

Our bridges: To do nothing will cost more

It was a year ago today that the 35W bridge collapsed into the Mississippi River in Minneapolis, stunning a nation that had long taken its vaunted highway system for granted. "A bridge in America just shouldn't fall down," said Minnesota Democratic Sen. Amy Klobuchar, who rushed to the scene along with a host of federal investigators and politicians. While Congress quickly rose to the challenge of helping to replace the 40-year-old span, it has yet to find the answers -- or the money -- to address a critical national infrastructure problem laid bare by the disaster.