March 13, 2025 - With the marking of the fifth anniversary of the COVID pandemic, The Minnesota Now team spent a month going out across the state and asking listeners and readers to share their story and experiences from that dramatic period in our collective recent history.
April 5, 2024 - MPR’s Ellie Roth takes an ambulance ride along in Dodge County for a report on efforts by rural EMS services in Minnesota to get funding support from the Legislature. Ambulance services rely on being able to bill a patient’s insurance, but that depends on whether they transport that patient to the hospital. In Dodge Center, many times EMTs and paramedics are responding to calls that don’t require hospitalization.