Essential Minnesota

Essential Minnesota

Every Friday host Melissa Townsend brings her distinct curiosity and humor to these weekly deep-dive conversations with journalists from the Minnesota Star Tribune. Together they dig into interesting and important local stories that matter to Minnesota and beyond. It’s what the Minnesota Star Tribune does best. Available Fridays at 4:30 A.M. Central.

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Episoder(45)

We’re cooking up something big - back next week

We’re cooking up something big - back next week

We don’t have a new episode for you this week because we are working on a deep dive mini-series unraveling the fraud scandals in Minnesota.  We’ll tell the full story going back a decade and parse out...

13 Mar 55s

The Sextortion "Pandemic" That’s Hitting Minnesota

The Sextortion "Pandemic" That’s Hitting Minnesota

It starts as an online flirtation, escalates in intensity and ends in tragedy. The story of one family's experience and the local investigator determined to bring them justice.

6 Mar 24min

How a “meltdown” is impacting Minnesota

How a “meltdown” is impacting Minnesota

Half of the lawyers at the U.S. Attorney’s office in Minnesota have left in the past year. We find out why and what that means for people involved in immigration, fraud and violent crime cases – inclu...

27 Feb 26min

Three shootings, two deaths, zero cooperation

Three shootings, two deaths, zero cooperation

As Operation Metro Surge ends in Minnesota, massive legal questions remain. Our reporters explain how state leaders are faced with finding a way around the federal government to hold the immigration a...

20 Feb 24min

Minnesotans in Hiding

Minnesotans in Hiding

Even with the announcement that Operation Metro Surge is coming to an end, many Minnesotans are still in hiding.  Our reporters visit with one family who has been wondering when it will be safe to com...

12 Feb 20min

Comparing Notes: Lessons from the ICE surge in Chicago

Comparing Notes: Lessons from the ICE surge in Chicago

Before Operation Metro Surge in Minneapolis, there was Operation Midway Blitz in Chicago. Chicago Tribune reporter Greg Pratt describes how it started, the similarities between Minneapolis and Chicago...

9 Feb 19min

Tackled, shackled and then what?

Tackled, shackled and then what?

We find out what is happening inside the ICE detainment facility in Minneapolis and what people have to do to be set free.

6 Feb 24min

Is Minnesota a sanctuary state and can its jails be opened to ICE?

Is Minnesota a sanctuary state and can its jails be opened to ICE?

Reporters in Minneapolis fact check federal officials' claims that violence across the metro is caused by state and local officials who have declared Minnesota a sanctuary state and won’t open its jai...

29 Jan 20min

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