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MinnPost.com provides news and analysis Monday through Friday, based on reporting by professional journalists, most of whom have decades of experience in the Twin Cities media. The site features video and audio as well as written stories. It also includes commentary pieces from the community, and comments from readers on individual stories. The site does not endorse candidates for office or publish unsigned editorials representing an institutional position. We encourage broad-ranging, civil discussion from many points of view.

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MinnPost's initial funding of $850,000 came from four families: John and Sage Cowles, Lee Lynch and Terry Saario, Joel and Laurie Kramer, and David and Vicki Cox. Roy Karon became a fifth founding donor. Major foundation support has come from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, the Blandin Foundation, the McKnight Foundation, the Minneapolis Foundation, and the Otto Bremer Foundation. As of October 15, 2009, MinnPost had more than 1,500 member-donors contributing amounts ranging from $10 to $20,000 a year.

The CEO and Editor of MinnPost is Joel Kramer, former editor and then publisher of Star Tribune. Other members of the MinnPost board of directors are founding donors David Cox and Lee Lynch; Kathleen Hansen, director of the Minnesota Journalism Center at the University of Minnesota; Patrick Irestone, CEO of Meritide; John Satorius, of the law firm Fredrikson & Byron; Vernae Hasbargen, former executive director of the Minnesota Rural Education Association; Samuel Heins, of the law firm Heins Mills & Olson; Jennifer Martin, Chair of the Martin and Brown Foundation; Chris (Oshikata) Widdess, managing director at Penumbra Theatre Company; Jim Shaffer, dean of the business school, University of Southern Maine; Judy Blaseg, fund-raising consultant; Tobin J. Dayton, president and CEO of JobDig; Rebecca Shavlik, former COO of Shavlik Technologies, a security software firm; Wendy Blackshaw, Vice President of Marketing, Sun Country Airlines; Fran Davis, REALTOR and Sales Manager, Coldwell Banker Burnet; Jack Dempsey, President of the Filtration Solutions Global Business, Pentair, Inc.; Kandace Olsen, vice president of communications and human resources, Great River Energy. Founding donor John Cowles is director emeritus.