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Social Issues

Firearm safety is key to veteran suicide prevention – here's why

Part 4: We have to talk firearm safety when we cover veteran suicide prevention.

Art

Helping a veteran in crisis: An illustrated intervention

Our comic is based on 2 intervention models: VA SAVE and LivingWorks' safeTALK

A friend of a veteran in crisis the veteran to services during an intervention spurred. (Nikki Wolgamott for Project Optimist

Social Issues

Here's where to get connected after launching a veteran suicide intervention

Part 3: A key step in a veteran suicide intervention is all about connection.

Social Issues

The VA helps prevent suicides with a process that starts with a question

Part 2 in our veteran suicide prevention series: The question that starts an intervention.

Walter Ribeiro, founder of The Dragonfly-e Inc., stands in front of a compost pile at the Wadena County Recycling Center and

Environment

Wadena man develops local biodigester as the biogas field goes 'gangbusters'

We've followed three nascent biodigesters for the last year, and they have all taken longer to launch than initially planned. Walter Ribeiro feels that the need to do so is increasingly urgent.