Jon Collins
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- ‘Tinted windows and out-of-state plates’: How ICE watchers look for agents in their neighborhoods
MPR’s Jon Collins reports on efforts by local community members to be watchers of ICE actions as federal deployment of ‘Metro Surge’ impacts the Twin Cities.
- North Star Journey: Hmong immigrants put down roots on Dakota County farmland
MPR’s Jon Collins profiles Hmong immigrants who have put down roots on Dakota County farmland. The Hmong American Farmers Association closed on farmland just south of the Twin Cities in Dakota County in 2022. The more than 150 acres are home base for the organization and 20 families of Hmong farmers.
- Hmong immigrants helped save this prairie town, but now their children are leaving
In the early 2000s, Hmong Americans from Minneapolis and St. Paul flocked to Walnut Grove in southwestern Minnesota. The city is best known for its hero, Laura Ingalls Wilder, who wrote about life in the town. The Hmong immigrants were drawn to farmland, jobs at local factories, and the slower pace of life. That influx of newcomers helped keep Walnut Grove’s main drag alive. But a generation in, the Hmong Americans who came to the region are facing a challenge familiar to other rural Americans…How do you give young people a reason to stay?
- 74 Seconds: The Traffic Stop
MPR presents 74 Seconds: The Traffic Stop, a step by step through a fatal traffic stop, which went from flashing lights to firing shots in just 74 seconds.
- Minnesota's Opioid Epidemic: After 17 times in treatment, this addict pins hope on new drug
As part of MPR News series “Minnesota's Opioid Epidemic,” MPR’s Jon Collins profiles Liz Casper, a recovering heroin addict, about her struggles and hopes for the future.
- Minnesota's Opioid Epidemic: He sold drugs to his own community; now he fights for redemption
As part of MPR News series “Minnesota's Opioid Epidemic,” MPR’s Jon Collins profiles James Cross, a former drug dealer who is now helping addicts in the Native American community he once sold drugs to.
- Minnesota's Opioid Epidemic: Three suburban friends got hooked on heroin; two survived
As part of MPR News series “Minnesota's Opioid Epidemic,” MPR’s Jon Collins talks with Nick Leclair, a young man from Elk River who discuss the struggle of drug addiction and the loss of his best friend, Dylan Pearson, to a heroin overdose.
- Minnesota's Opioid Epidemic: This Minneapolis man is on a mission to hand out needles, Narcan
As part of MPR News series “Minnesota's Opioid Epidemic,” MPR’s Jon Collins profiles Lee Hertel, a Minneapolis activist who hands out clean needles and medicine that can reverse overdoses. Hertel says he's trying to save the lives of people he believes society has forgot.
- Minnesota's Opioid Epidemic: She lost her fiance to painkillers and went on to fight for Narcan
As part of MPR News series “Minnesota's Opioid Epidemic,” MPR’s Jon Collins profiles Lexi Reed Holtum and her legislative efforts against opioid epidemic after the death of her fiance, Steve Rummler. The two were engaged when Rummler died from a heroin overdose of in 2011.
- Minnesota's Opioid Epidemic: This White Earth mom lost her pregnant daughter to overdose
As part of MPR News series “Minnesota's Opioid Epidemic,” MPR’s Jon Collins profiles Rita Rogers, a mother from White Earth who lost her pregnant daughter Tiffany to heroin overdose.
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