There is only one place in Dakota County that helps place 18-24-year-olds in permanent homes.
Lincoln Place houses 24 young adults and counsels them on educational and career goals.
"Where is your heart," Mindy Karris said to Liz Collin, "If you don't have a home?"
Even though there was a glitch in the beginning of the tape, the story brought to light an important issue.
Only 30 percent of need is met f all of the shelters in the Twin Cities are filled to capacity.
Black and white are two important colors in art, but local artists are spending time exploring the gray areas.
Chris Robert's theatrical lead for "Art Hounds" pulls the listener in as a thespian reads the first line, and his three interviewees read the following three lines.
"I think you're gonna get pulled into the this romance that is sort of funny and surreal," Lily Troia, the founder of the Invisible Button, said. "Yet, it gets you questioning morality and choices."
Roberts takes stand out quotes from each of his interviewees and ties their narratives together through the use of music.
The goal of Art Hounds to get people interested in what is out there, and I think that it doesn't get more interesting than a story that features a graphic artist, an accordian player, and a play called "How to Cheat."
From a one-car garage to downtown Minneapolis, Fulton Brewery becomes the first brewery in the city with the ability to sell beer on-site.
The co-founders of Fulton had humble beginnings hopping from garage to garage huddling for warmth over the beers they were brewing.
The "Surly Bill," which was signed by Gov. Mark Dayton,will allow other breweries to move their operations into the Minneapolis city limits.
Councilman Gary Schiff plans to eliminate an old ordinance that prevents alcohol from being sold within 300 feet of a church, according to the Minnesota Daily.
"It's bringing our dream to fruition in a way," Diley told the Minnesota Daily. "We always said we wanted to build a brewery in Minneapolis."
The University of Minnesota is seeking $14,000 to fund an ecology project in Tanzania.
The project involves the use of 200 cameras over a 1,000-square-mile area to capture images of how lions coexist with their habitat.
Yasin Mohamud from the Minnesota Daily did a good job of explaining the idea of "crowdfunding" in his article, but he could have done a better job of breaking down the numbers involved.
It would be more meaningful to read that there is one camera for about every five miles in the park as opposed to seeing that there are 200 cameras in 1,000-square mile territory.
Rocket Hub, the website enabling crowd funding, does a good job of breaking down the costs related to the project, and has infographics that make it clear that they have only reached seven percent of their funding goal.
A Minneapolis man husband and wife removed the boiler and fireplace from their house in hopes of being certified as the first "EnerPHit" home in North America.
MinnePhit House explains that EnerPhit is an energy efficiency code that was designed with older houses in mind.
It is clear that the standards listed on MinnePhit will increase energy efficiency by 10 percent, but the list of hard and fast requirements concerning British Thermal Units (Btus) and Kilowatt hours (kWhr) has little meaning to those outside of the renewable energy circle.
The Star Tribune article does a good job of relating numerical values to information that is meaningful to the average reader.
The idea that space heaters will be sufficient to heat a 2,000-square-foot home may hard to believe, it is an idea that is easy to understand.
The lead singer of the sci-fi metal band GWAR, Cory Smoot, 34, was found dead in the band's tour bus.
Citypages reports that Smoot, who was known by fans under the stage name of "Flattus Maximus," was found by band mates after a pit stop to a fuel station in North Dakota.
The band was on its way to Canada and was only two weeks in on its North American tour.
According to the Huffington Post the cause of Smoot's death is unknown.
The lead singer of GWAR, Dave Brockie wrote a statement on the band's website, "We have lost a brother, a husband, a son, and one of the most talented musicians that ever slung an ax."
David Olson, an ex-KUOM newsman, died at the age of 72.
According to the Morris Nilsen Funeral Chapel Olson's death was the result of a battle with heart disease.
Olson was diagnosed with heart disease 20 years prior, but his wife told the Star Tribune that he remained active singing bass in a choir and mentoring the staff at Senate Media Services (SMS) for as long as he could.
In his professional career Olson had worked for ten years as the moderator for SMS, and was the news director and anchor for KUOM radio.
"He could interview anyone about anything," a friend and development director at KUOM, Stuart Sanders said of Olson. "He was amazingly talented."
A man was fatally shot at a house party in the 3000 block of Pleasant Avenue South Sunday evening.
WCCO reports that police officers arrived at the scene to find a man gun shot wounds in the company of more than 10 adults and several children.
Police reports did not release the victim's name, but two relatives identified the victim to the Star Tribune as Francisco Hernandez.
Hernandez, 21, was alive when officers arrived, but died at the scene according to WCCO's report.
Police took a suspect into custody, but due to a language barrier, the police are unclear of what led to the shooting.
A 24-year-old St. Paul man was fatally shot one year after being released from prison.
A witness, who wished to remain unnamed for safety reasons, told the Star Tribune that she saw a car speed down the street, stop at the corner where the front seat passenger exited the car and fired five shots at Dekoda M. Galtney.
Court records show that Galtney plead guilty to third-degree riot for the benefit of a gang and was convicted for aggravated robbery, illegal gun possession, and two counts of crimes benefitting a gang.
Galtney's sister, Erica Stevenson, told the Star Tribune that Galtney took up cosmetology in prison. "He used his time to focus and get his life together," Stevenson said.
Kare 11 reports that a suspect was arrested and booked at the Ramsey County Law Enforcement Center the next morning.
