1000 Friends Coverage

1000 Friends of Minnesota’s Phil Hunsicker has a letter to the editor in the June 28, 2010 Star Tribune in response to the p More >>

Today’s MPR News blog features the 1000 Friends of Minnesota Voices for the Lakes essay contest. More >>

MinnPost covered last night’s Candidate Forum: 2010 Governor’s Race at Macalester College in today’s online edition. There were 10 declared candidates who participated (not 11, as reported): DFLers Mark Dayton, Susan Gaertner, Margaret Anderson Kelliher, John Marty, Tom Rukavina, and R. T. Rybak; IP candidates Rob Hahn, Tom Horner, John Uldrich; and Republican Leslie Davis.

Read the full story about the Governor’s Forum as reported in MinnPost by Doug Grow. More >>

In mid-January MinnPost posted an online preview of our upcoming Candidate Forum More >>

1000 Friends of Minnesota worked with other advocacy groups in Minnesota to issue a report critiquing the way the federal stimulus dollars were allocated in our state. More >>

The Winona Daily News covered the story that the legislature passed a bill removing school siting acreage constraints in the s More >>

A long-time 1000 Friends of Minnesota priority to eliminate sprawl-inducing minimum acreage requirements for new schools was included in the education bill signed by the Governor in June 2009. More >>

Lee Ronning, founder of 1000 Friends of Minnesota, was interviewed as part of the series: Minnesota: A History of the Land It was televised on local station More >>

A recent edition of the Metropolitan Council’s newsletter, Directions, discusses geo-visualization techniques for lo More >>