The Minnesota Star Tribune announced it will close its Minneapolis printing plant by the end of this year, laying off 125 workers. “The cost-saving measure follows decades of declining print readership, leaving the Heritage plant on N. 1st Street operating at just 18% of full capacity,” the Star Tribune reported. But print’s not entirely dead; a Gannett-owned facility in Des Moines, Iowa, will still print the paper seven days a week starting at the end of December.

Gov. Walz has issued an executive order in response to federal moves that have curbed vaccine access and perception. “The order directs the Minnesota Department of Health to work with other state agencies to identify, review and remove barriers to vaccine access to the ‘fullest extent permitted by law,'” MPR News reports, thoug

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