International Falls Journal | October 10, 2017
Falls International Airport's new terminal was celebrated Tuesday with a ribbon cutting that included Minnesota Lt. Governor Tina Smith.
Smith expressed congratulations to the community and relayed the same message from Gov. Mark Dayton.
"The new Falls International Airport terminal will support additional trade and business travel which is essential to growing our economy and creating good jobs everywhere in Minnesota," she said.
Others who spoke, or read letters from state and federal officials, discussed the multilevel partnership that included funding from federal, state and local governments to complete the $10.3 million terminal.
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Star Tribune | October 14, 2017
MARSHALL, MINN. – The institute of higher learning in this town, Southwest Minnesota State University, offers a major in hospitality management, and the belief Saturday afternoon at the conclusion of the Governor’s Pheasant Opener here was that all of the community’s residents hold at least a bachelor’s degree in the field, graduating with honors.
Hosted by its founder, Gov. Mark Dayton, the two-day event, now in its seventh year, is intended to shine a spotlight on a city in the state’s ringneck range while also celebrating the pheasant and the many good times this wildly colored bird has engendered in Minnesota since its arrival in 1916.
Ostensibly the point was to put roosters to wing. But the gathering was as much an observance of the importance of rural pursuits and of civic engagement, with an occasional tip of an orange cap to Dayton, who is considered a conservation champion among the scattergun and sporting-dog set.
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 KSTP 5 News | October 5, 2017
Almost one month before a new law aimed at keeping Minnesota's waterways clean goes into effect, nearly all of the state's landowners are already in compliance, state officials said Thursday.
It's meant to stop phosphorous, nitrogen and sediment from getting into the state's water. And so far, statewide compliance on public waters is at 94 percent, officials said.
"We are a headwater state, and we have literally a moral obligation to make sure that the water that leaves this state is as clean as we possibly can," Department of Agriculture Commissioner Dave Frederickson said. "And so we'll have bragging rights on buffer strips all across the nation."
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Forum News Service | October 14, 2017
Minnesota Gov. Mark Dayton is pinning
hopes of resolving a dispute with the Fargo-Moorhead flood protection
project on a task force he and North Dakota Doug Burgum are
establishing.
Protecting the Fargo-Moorhead area from
floods is vital, Dayton said, but he will continue to oppose the current
plan because many of his state’s residents were left out of its
development.
The task force he and Burgum recently
announced could end the impasse that resulted in a federal judge
stopping most work on the flood diversion project, Dayton said in a
Forum News Service interview.
“I am optimistic we will come up with
something that is a decided improvement over what is on the table now,”
Dayton said, adding that he is not sure the task force can reach an
agreement to satisfy everyone.
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Marshall Independent | October 16, 2017
MARSHALL — The sound of shotgun blasts could be heard intermittently throughout the morning — signaling successful sightings of birds on Saturday — but the actual hunt at the 2017 Minnesota Governor’s Pheasant Hunting Opener was only part of overall experience in the Marshall area.
Initiated by Gov. Mark Dayton in 2011, the GPHO honors and promotes Minnesota’s longstanding pheasant hunting tradition.
“It’s just a great time of the season in Minnesota,” Dayton said. “It takes me back — I used to hunt down in Jackson County with my father and brother. I was about 8-year-old when I started, so it’s just really special to be back out and treasure Minnesota fall.”
Along with Lt. Gov. Tina Smith, Dayton was among many hunters, hosts, organizers and volunteers who came together for the seventh annual GPHO. While some of those participating were avid sportsmen and women, others — like Marshall business owner Ahmed Omar and his 13-year-old son, Omar Abdi — were building pheasant hunting memories for the first time.
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Marshall Independent | October 16, 2017
MARSHALL — Of the 28 pheasants bagged at the 2017 Minnesota Governor’s Pheasant Hunting Opener on Saturday in the Marshall area, the three with the longest tail feathers were shot by women — the fastest growing demographic in the state for pheasant hunting.
Already a Minnesota leader, Lt. Gov. Tina Smith added to her regular duties this weekend as she led all-women groups into the field in search of ring-necks.
“We’re doing something a little different this year,” Smith said. “I’m going to be hunting with an all-women group. We wanted to do this to remind ourselves and everyone else that a lot of women really enjoy hunting. It’s something you can see when you watch the high school clay shooting leagues, which a lot of young women are getting involved in. There’s just great camaraderie.”
As the tradition of pheasant hunting declines in Minnesota, it could be partly up to women to help flip the downturn around.
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