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Ramstad: With $1B vulnerable to social services fraud, Minnesota needs solutions, not noise

Star Tribune 12 Feb 2026
It’ll take more than appointing an inspector general. Structures need to change in state and local government ... .
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Ramstad: The Great Wrecking of Minnesota is underway

Star Tribune 07 Feb 2026
Republicans overreacted to illegal immigration and fraud. Democrats did the same with the state’s social service providers. Collateral damage is in every corner of the state ... .
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Ramstad: An economic bomb has hit Lake Street

Star Tribune 04 Feb 2026
Hispanic businesses are being hit hardest as customers and employees hide from federal agents — or leave Minnesota ... .
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Ramstad: Minnesotans’ moderation, not radicalism, is working against Trump’s immigration crackdown

Star Tribune 31 Jan 2026
Minnesotans fought back from the bottom up, not the top down. The resistance has not been overly organized and yet incredibly disciplined ... .
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Minnesota gained more people from other states in 2025, a first this decade

Winona Daily News 28 Jan 2026
Minnesota gained more residents from other states than it lost to them in 2025, the first time that’s happened in seven years, new Census Bureau data shows. But the state grew more slowly last year than it did in 2024, ... .
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Ramstad: Open the Whipple Federal Building now

Star Tribune 27 Jan 2026
One of the first things Tom Homan should do is reveal the place and conditions in which Minnesotans have been detained ... .
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Ramstad: Readers join my appeal to focus on state services, but fraud dominates their emotions

Star Tribune 24 Jan 2026
A column with un-Christmas emotion prompted the most reader emails and comments in recent weeks ... .
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Ramstad: Vance blames protesters, Minnesota leaders for feds’ inept immigration crackdown

Star Tribune 23 Jan 2026
If this so-called “largest immigration action ever” operation was a business venture, it would be an utter failure ... .
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Ramstad: Telling people to avoid Minnesota businesses doesn’t hurt ICE

Star Tribune 21 Jan 2026
The “economic blackout” day creates unnecessary risk for people who on the side of getting ICE out of Minnesota ... .
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Ramstad: Trump’s ICE push in Minnesota is part of a makeover of America’s population

Star Tribune 17 Jan 2026
He dislikes that immigrants have become such a major source of population growth in the state and country ... .
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Ramstad: The response to fraud in Minnesota is now overkill

Star Tribune 14 Jan 2026
Minnesotans are being terrorized by ICE. As funding delays ruin caregiving businesses and charities, those who depend on human services worry about losing them ... .
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Ramstad: Step one, build credit for Leech Lake members. Step two, build houses for them ...

Star Tribune 10 Jan 2026
Leech Lake Financial Services lifted up hundreds of tribal members to mortgage-level credit scores. Now, they need houses to buy ... .
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Ramstad: With Walz out of the race, let’s get real about Minnesota’s challenges

Star Tribune 05 Jan 2026
Fraud is not the biggest problem facing Minnesota’s next governor ... .
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