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Partisan conflict in Minnesota House threatens to hold up $200 million in conservation funds

Buffalo River State Park adjoins a 6,000-acre Bluestem Prairie Preserve. (Photo courtesy of Visit Fargo-Moorhead)ST. PAUL, Minn. (Minnesota Reformer) — A procedural hangup in the deadlocked Minnesota House threatens to derail nearly $200 million in funding for habitat conservation and restoration across the state. At a Capitol press conference Thursday, representatives from at least eight environmental groups implored lawmakers to put aside…

Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library using $70M Bank of North Dakota line of credit

Construction workers lay cement at the site of the Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library in Medora on Sept. 1, 2025. (Photo courtesy of the Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library)MEDORA, N.D. (North Dakota Monitor) – The Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library Foundation has tapped into $53 million of a $70 million Bank of North Dakota line of credit to pay for construction costs while…