Albert Lea

I'd like to hear from you if you own or have owned a rural business in rural Minnesota.

Doesn't have to be Albert Lea, but if you have run a business here, started a business somewhere in a neighboring town, maybe, I know there's some people here from Iowa, I wanna hear about your experience there.

I think it would be important to the conversation.

Tell me a little bit about the pressures that keep you up at night.

Angela, introduce yourself a little bit, and, uh, then I've got some questions for you.

Um, I'm Angela Moeller.

I, uh, co-own The Homestead Boutique with my husband, Matt, here in Albert Lea.

You've had the business for how long?

I'm guessing it was turkeys or hogs, something like that.

Wouldn't that be true of Albert Lea and, uh-

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And that same week, Klobuchar finished her yearly lap of all eighty-seven Minnesota counties at an oat mill down in Albert Lea and somewhere along the way stopped for a famous raspberry shake in Delano.

Eighty-seven counties and a raspberry shake, that is the most beautiful friendship campaign in America, and a woman with a beer in Ada just asked it for a resume.

Enough with the friendship popularity campaigns.

Thank you, Immigration Customs Enforcement.

And then taken to the Freeborn County Jail in Albert Lee.

Ivan told NPR News by phone from jail that I didn't even make it to see the sun and the five federal agents were waiting for me.

Was it cloudy that day? Don't come into the country illegally, dude.

They average 29 points a game, so very similar, but they only give up about 10.

Um, uh- New Ulm's only loss came to Albert Lea.

That, to me, is a very much of an outlier game.

I don't know how that really happened.

Um, Tri-City United beat Albert Lea, I think, earlier in the year.

And, uh, but they lost to a really good Belle Plaine team, um, you know, only by 11.

So they were in that game, but, um, uh, they also beat Waseca last week.