Why most Minnesota lakes put the ‘Lake’ part of the name second
In Minnesota, where early colonists came from France and later came from other parts of Europe, roughly 90 percent of lakes in the researchers’ sample were Name Lake.
Greta Kaul
Greta Kaul is an associate editor. She can be reached at gkaul@minnpost.com.
Coronavirus in Minnesota: More of the same; is that a good thing?
Data from the Minnesota Department of Health (MDH) show the state added 3,589 new COVID-19 cases between April 6 and April 12, averaging 513 new cases per day.
Why home prices in the Twin Cities keep going up
The rise in housing prices is nothing new, though prices weren’t rising quite this steeply until the pandemic hit.
Coronavirus in Minnesota: ‘stealth’ omicron takes over
Wastewater data from the Metropolitan Council suggest BA.2 is now the dominant strain of COVID-19 in the Twin Cities.
What welcoming Ukrainian refugees to Minnesota might look like
President Joe Biden announced last week that the U.S. would accept 100,000 refugees from Ukraine. But that won’t happen right away.
Is it normal to see a beaver in downtown St. Paul?
And is this guy OK?
Coronavirus in Minnesota: FDA authorizes second booster for people 50 and up
That doesn’t mean everyone age 50 and up needs to rush out and get a second booster immediately, though.
What the omicron subvariant BA.2 might mean for Minnesota
The coronavirus variant spreads even faster than omicron, but that doesn’t necessarily guarantee it will cause as big a wave of cases and hospitalizations as omicron did.
Coronavirus in Minnesota: Another week of low case counts
Case counts did tick up slightly this week compared to the previous week, but are very low compared to levels at the beginning of the year.
How often planes hit birds (and other animals) in Minnesota
Talk about unfriendly skies.
More Minnesotans are getting back into the workforce. But the state’s labor force participation rate may never be what it once was.
The shortfall is being felt by employers, who are still struggling to hire staff, but also by consumers.
Coronavirus in Minnesota: Average case positivity rate drops below 4 percent
New cases, hospitalizations and deaths are all down in the state.
When ice out happens on Minnesota lakes — and what that means, anyway
The Minnesota DNR has records on ice out going back to the 1800s for some lakes.
How Minnesota’s second year of pandemic compared to its first
For one thing, while more people tested positive for COVID-19 in the pandemic’s second year, fewer of them died.
Coronavirus in Minnesota: Cases dropping as Minnesota passes two years of the COVID-19 pandemic
Do you remember what you were doing when you heard about Minnesota’s first case?
How Northeast Minneapolis came to be a center of the Ukrainian-American community
People from Ukraine have been settling in this part of Minneapolis for more than a century.
Coronavirus in Minnesota: New CDC mask guidelines mean less masking recommended in Minnesota
The new standards consider both rates of spread of COVID-19 and hospitalizations.
Minneapolis and St. Paul just lifted their mask mandates. Is it OK to stop worrying about COVID?
Or at least, stop worrying so much?
Coronavirus in Minnesota: New case counts decline further
Even so, Minnesota is close to reporting its 12,000th death from the disease since the start of the pandemic.
