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Minneapolis and St. Paul face a financial reckoning as commercial property values decline, operating expenses rise and taxpayers confront another round of substantial property tax increases.
The question is no longer whether newspapers are dying. The real question now is which institutions survive the transition from industrial-age newspapers into modern digital civic platforms. And whether Minnesota’s largest news organization fully understands what it must become next.
If Hennepin fails, it’s not just a county left behind. It’s every county watching, knowing this is a glimpse of its own future. Fentanyl doesn’t care about ZIP codes. Neither does a gun in the wrong hands. The time to coordinate isn’t after the obituary runs — it’s now.
