Stories of the Opioid Crisis in Northeastern Minnesota
To document in 20 oral history interviews the history of the opioid crisis in Minnesota.
$5,982,000 the first year and $7,000,000 the second year are for statewide historic and cultural grants to local, county, regional, or other historical or cultural organizations or for activities to preserve significant historic and cultural resources. Money must be distributed through a competitive grant process. The Minnesota Historical Society must administer the money using established grant mechanisms, with assistance from the advisory committee created under Laws 2009, chapter 172, article 4, section 2, subdivision 4, paragraph (b), item (ii).
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The website was ruled an unallowable expense, and so we are not quite yet able to assess the public facing dimension of the project. The University Archives has agreed to create a "landing page" on the University Archives website which should serve most of the function we had intended in the unfunded website; that website will be built once the materials are fully catalogued. We will use the university "z.umn.edu/" URL shortener to create a zippy, memorable URL.
Once the university archives has created the landing page, the Library has agreed to send a press release on the completion of the project (drawing attention to the topic, to the stories, and to the importance of MNHS funding for doing this work), coordinating coverage on 101.3FM (The North) and in the Duluth News Tribune. We will plan an "event" in the library at that time, as well, hoping for television news coverage.
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Vice Chair ? Regent Janie Mayeron,
Secretary ? Brian Steeves, Executive Director of the Office of the Board of Regents,
Treasurer ? Myron Frans, Senior Vice President for Finance and Operations, University of Minnesota,
Mary A. Davenport, James T. Farnsworth, Douglas A. Huebsch, Tadd M. Johnson, Ruth E. Johnson, Mike O. Kenyanya, Darrin M. Rosha, Steven A. Sviggum, Bo Thao-Urabe, Kodi J. Verhalen