The Minnesota Star Tribune announced it will close its Minneapolis printing plant by the end of this year, laying off 125 workers. “The cost-saving measure follows decades of declining print readership, leaving the Heritage plant on N. 1st Street operating at just 18% of full capacity,” the Star Tribune reported. But print’s not entirely dead; a Gannett-owned facility in Des Moines, Iowa, will still print the paper seven days a week starting at the end of December.
Gov. Walz has issued an executive order in response to federal moves that have curbed vaccine access and perception. “The order directs the Minnesota Department of Health to work with other state agencies to identify, review and remove barriers to vaccine access to the ‘fullest extent permitted by law,’” MPR News reports, though, “it’s not clear yet how the guidance will spill down to health providers.”
A 12-year-old girl injured in the Annunciation Church shooting has been released from the hospital. KSTP reports that Lydia Kaiser will be receiving a scholarship and national student heroism award from The Uvalde Foundation for Kids for what she did to protect those around her. As for other wounded survivors, “One child remains hospitalized with serious injuries while all other victims are now back home, although many still face long roads in their recovery.”
And as National Suicide Prevention Awareness Week gets underway, Minnesota News Connection profiles how the Minnesota Construction Mental Health Alliance is hoping to change the mindsets of project leaders and workers in the construction field. “The Alliance cites data showing construction as having the second highest suicide rate behind farming. It also notes a construction worker is four to five times more likely to die of suicide than of a workplace-related accident.”
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