This week on North Star Stories, we look at how Operation Metro Surge is impacting the state's education system. Then, a northern Minnesota community responds to federal legislation that would shift focus for the mining industry and change EPA regulation of public lands and waterways.

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Executive Producer: Victor Palomino 

Producers: Xan Holston, Katharine DeCelle, frankie felegy 

Host: Chantel SinGs 

Reader scripting: Joel Glaser, Victor Palomino 

Fact checking: Joel Glaser, Victor Palomino 

Editorial support: Emily Krumberger 

Mixing & mastering: Chris Harwood
Image: Demonstrators holding anti-ICE signs outside the governor's residence. (Credit: Katharine DeCelle)

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