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The Civil War ended in 1865, but for Minnesota and the one-time rebel state of Virginia, the battle continues over a prized battle flag. Union Soldier Marshall Sherman of Minnesota stands in front of ...

Kelly Kaseman, a Rochester resident who flies the new state flag off his porch in southwest Rochester, says he does so because it is a better representation of the state and does a better job showing ...

ROCHESTER, Minn. (KTTC) –As we near America’s 250th birthday, patriotic spirit will be on display with American flags flying ...

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MINNEAPOLIS — Old Glory is the only flag flying outside Detroit Lakes City Hall. You won’t see the Minnesota state flag — the retired one or the new one that a number of communities refuse to hoist on ...

On July 14, David Lebedoff commented that the problem bedeviling our democracy is the primary system we use to select the people who represent us. His hoped-for solution was some undefined action by ...

Our new state flag strikes me as the equivalent of a corporate logo. I see however that “Minnesota” is missing from it. That must be so that we can sell off the naming rights later. — We have gone ...